Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131014013 ISBN 13: 9780131014015

Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR, 2003

Solaris System Administrator's Guide, Fourth Edition is the perfect quick-start tutorial for system administrators new to the Solaris 9 Operating Environment - and the perfect fast-access reference for veteran Solaris administrators. Thoroughly updated to reflect Solaris 9's latest management tools, it shows how to administer users, devices, systems, networks, printing, and other tasks and offers a way to streamline administration and to become more productive and efficient. Coverage includes new SMC Tools: System Status, System Information, System Configuration, Storage, Enhanced Storage, and Performance. The book includes detailed coverage of troubleshooting file access, tracking network performance, streamlining printing, and more -- every bit of it authoritative and accessible.

From the Back Cover:

Solaris Operating Environment System Administrator’s Guide, Fourth Edition

by Janice Winsor

The definitive, quick-answerresource for every Solaris 9 sysadmin.

• Fully updated! Covers Solaris 9 new Flash Install and Live Upgrade installation features, Secure Shell network commands, and much more

• Administering users, devices, systems,networks, and printing

• Maximizing efficiency, productivity, and system availability

Fast solutionsfor every Solaris 9 system administration challenge—directfrom Sun!

SolarisOperating Environment System Administrator’s Guide, Fourth Edition is the definitive quick-start tutorialfor every new Solaris system administrator—and the ideal fast-accessreference for every Solaris administrator, regardless of experience. Fullyupdated to reflect Solaris 9’s newest features and management tools, itcovers day-to-day administration tools and demonstrates how to maximizeefficiency, reliability, and availability in any Solaris environment.

Coverageincludes all this, and much more—

• NEW! Secure Shell network commands

• NEW! Flash Install and Live Upgrade installation features

• NEW! Allocate/deallocate/list devices commands; cdrw, rmformat, ssh commands; and more

• Basic administration: superuser status, boot processes, monitoring, and communicating with users

• Solaris commands: user and environment information, working with files and disks, redirecting output, reading manual pages, and more

• Solaris shells: Bourne, C, Korn, Bourne-Again, TC, and Z

• User administration: User accounts, file systems, and roles-including Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

• Device/system administration: Service Access Facility, configuring additional swap space, creating local e-mail aliases, and more

• Network services: remote administration, NIS+, IPv6, and more

From startup to backup, security to printing, this book delivers clearly written, accessible information you’ll use today—and every day.

PRENTICE HALL

Professional TechnicalReference

Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458

www.phptr.com

Sun Microsystems Press

ISBN: 0-13-101401-3

UPC: 076092022015

About the Author:

About the Author

JANICE WINSOR, a permanentresident of Australia, is the author of the award-winning Advanced Solaris SystemAdministrator’s Guide. Her most recent books include Solaris 8 SystemAdministrator’s Reference, Solaris Management Console Tools, and Solaris7 Reference. She is also co-author of Jumping JavaScript and More JumpingJavaScript, and a noted artist whose work has been exhibited in the US andAustralia.