What's New in the Solaris 9 12/02 Operating Environment describes the features in the SolarisTM 9 12/02 operating environment. Chapter 1 summarizes new features in the Solaris 9 9/02 Update release and the Solaris 9 12/02 Update release. Chapter 2 provides a list of all enhancements that were included in the original Solaris 9 operating environment.
The Solaris operating environment runs on the SPARCTM platform and certain IA (Intel Architecture) platforms. The information in this document pertains to all platforms unless otherwise specified in a special chapter, section, note, bulleted item, figure, table, or example.
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For further information on the Solaris 9 features summarized in this book, refer to the following documentation:
Sun ONE Application Server 7 Getting Started Guide |
Sun ONE Message Queue 3.0.1 Administrator's Guide |
Sun ONE Message Queue 3.0.1 Developer's Guide |
System Administration Guide: IP Services |
System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) |
System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (FNS and NIS+) |
System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services |
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The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.
Table P-1 Typographic Conventions
Typeface or Symbol |
Meaning |
Example |
---|---|---|
AaBbCc123 | The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 | What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
AaBbCc123 | Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
To delete a file, type rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new words, or terms, or words to be emphasized. |
Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this. |
Numerals in parentheses next to a command or function name, for example, ioctl(2), indicate the reference manual section number where the manual page ("man page") for the command or function is located.
The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Table P-2 Shell Prompts
Shell |
Prompt |
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C shell prompt | machine_name% |
C shell superuser prompt | machine_name# |
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt | $ |
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt | # |