What's New in the Solaris 9 4/04 Operating Environment describes all features that are in the SolarisTM 9 4/04 release. Chapter 2 provides a list of all enhancements that were made available in the original Solaris 9 release, which was released in May 2002. Chapter 1 summarizes new features that have been added to the Solaris 9 9/02 release and subsequent Solaris 9 releases.
The Solaris operating system runs on the SPARC® platform and certain x86 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 about the Solaris 9 features that are summarized in this book, refer to the following Sun documentation:
GNOME 2.0 Desktop Collection at http://docs.sun.com
Sun ONE Application Server 7 Collection Update 1 (Solaris Edition) at http://docs.sun.com
Sun ONE Message Queue 3.0.1 Administrator's Guide
Sun ONE Message Queue 3.0.1 Developer's Guide
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
For further information about the Sun JavaTM Enterprise System, see Sun Java Enterprise System 2003Q4 at http://docs.sun.com.
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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 | # |