Solaris 9 Operating Environment Reference - Hardcover

Winsor, Janice

 
9780131007017: Solaris 9 Operating Environment Reference

Synopsis

Solaris 9 Operating Environment Reference covers 550+ commands, over 100 of them new to the Solaris 9 or Solaris 8 OE - including powerful new tools for security, networking, LDAP, remote access, and compression. Janice Winsor presents thorough descriptions and practical examples, organized for maximum ease-of-use and quick problem solving.

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About the Author

JANICE WINSOR is author of several award-winning books, including Solaris System Administrator's Guide, Third Edition; Solaris 8 Advanced System Administrator's Guide; Solaris 8 System Administrator's Reference; and Solaris 7 Reference. She is also co-author of Jumping JavaScript and More Jumping JavaScript and a noted artist whose work has been exhibited in the U.S. and Australia.

From the Back Cover

An essential resource for sysadmins, developers, and power users.

  • Plain English reference guide to all of the Section (1) man pages—from acctcom to zcat
  • Tested examples and clear, easy-to-understand explanations
  • Includes new LDAP-related commands, NCA, PERL, RBAC, SSH, and Kerebos security commands

When you need fast, detailed answers about the Solaris Operating Environment, the man pages aren't enough: you need Solaris 9 Operating Environment Reference. Award-winning technical writer Janice Winsor delivers over 1,600 pages of rock-solid information on 550+ commands, including over 100 new commands for IP networking, remote access, compression, printing, NIS, NFS, and more. Winsor also provides tested examples and clear, easy-to-understand explanations for the new LDAP-related commands, NCA (Network Cache Accelerator), PERL, RBAC (Role-based Access Control), SSH, and Kerebos security commands.You'll find thorough descriptions, practical usage examples, and detailed reference tables—all organized for maximum accessibility and quick problem solving.

  • Networking and Internet services
  • Security, including role-based access control and SSH
  • File system management
  • User management
  • System status and administration
  • LDAP Directory services
  • Performance management
  • Compression and archiving
  • Printing
  • Text processing
  • Programming tools
  • System utilities
  • And much more

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Preface

The Solaris 9 Operating Environment Reference is your complete guide to all of the manual pages in Section 1, "User Commands," of the online reference documentation (except the FMLI commands).

All documentation references within this guide are to the official Solaris documentation. To access Sun Microsystems, Inc. documentation online, seedocs.sunAudience

This book is for any user of the Solaris Operating Environment who needs to refer to any of the Section 1 User Commands in the online manual pages for quick reference or for more detailed information.How This Book Is Organized

The Introduction chapter provides a quick reference to the contents of this book by functional grouping. The commands are grouped alphabetically within their installation package categories. Within the "Core Solaris (Usr)" category, the commands are grouped by function.

The Introduction chapter also provides a list of commands added in the Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 releases along with a list of commands that were removed from each release.

This book is a dictionary-style alphabetic reference to the A through Z commands.

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