Preface
The Solaris 8 Admin Pack Installation Guide provides you with information and instructions for installing and configuring the products consolidated in SolarisTM 8 Admin Pack. It is available in HTML format and as a PostScriptTM and PDF file on the Solaris 8 Admin Pack product CD. On the Admin Pack Documentation CD, it is available as an AnswerBook2TM document.
Who Should Use This Book
This guide is for system administrators responsible for installing and managing the Solaris 8 Admin Pack products.
How This Book Is Organized
Chapter 1, Introducing the Solaris 8 Admin Pack provides a summary description of the products consolidated in the Admin Pack.
Chapter 2, Preparing Your Solaris 8 Admin Pack Installation provides information on pre-installation tasks and product updates.
Chapter 3, Installing the Solaris 8 Admin Pack Products describes the installation of the Admin Pack products.
Chapter 4, Installing the Solaris 8 Admin Pack Documentation describes the installation of the SEAS documentation set.
Chapter 5, Configuring the Solaris 8 Admin Products provides configuration information for the SEAS products.
Chapter 6, Troubleshooting provides troubleshooting information pertaining to installation.
Chapter 7, Managing Solaris 8 Admin Pack Products From the Registry provides details for installing and uninstalling the Admin Pack using the Solaris Registry.
Appendix A, Available Solaris 8 Admin Pack Packages lists the individual Admin Pack packages that can be installed using the pkgadd command.
Appendix B, Solaris 8 Admin Pack Product Compatibility charts the compatibility among the Admin Pack products.
Related Books
See Table 4-1 for a complete list of books that are supplied with Solaris 8 Admin Pack.
Ordering Sun Documents
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Accessing Sun Documentation Online
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What Typographic Conventions Mean
The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.
Table P-1 Typographic Conventions|
Typeface or Symbol |
Meaning |
Example |
|---|---|---|
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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. |
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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. |
Shell Prompts in Command Examples
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 |
|---|---|
| C shell prompt | machine_name% |
| C shell superuser prompt | machine_name# |
| Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt | $ |
| Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt | # |
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