Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp - Sun microsystems

You already have the man pages: what you need are the answers! With Solaris OE Boot Camp, the answers are right at your fingertips. Drawing on nearly 30 years of experience with Sun Microsystems hardware and software, David Rhodes and Dominic Butler walk you through every facet of Solaris OE system administration, from simple user management on standalone servers to building and managing a fully networked enterprise environment. Rhodes and Butler explain every task in detail-with sample commands, specific output, lists of impacted system files, and in some cases, complete shell scripts. Coverage includes:

• User Administration
• Permissions & Security
• Networking
• Filesystems, including NFS, DFS & Autofs
• Serial & SCSI Connections
• Internet & DNS
• Disk Quotas
• Shells
• Email Configuration & Management
• Backup/Restore
• System Boot/Halt
• PPP Remote Connections
• Kernels & Patches
• Naming Services & NIS
• Package Administration
• Time, Date, & NTP
• And much more...

Whether you've been running the Solaris Operating Environment for a week or a decade, Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp will help you do more, do it faster, and do it better! Contents

1. The System Administrator's Role
2. Booting and Halting the System
3. User Administration
4. Permissions and All That
5. Shells
6. The Filesystem and Its Contents
7. Swap Space
8. Administering Packages
9. Patching the System
10. Administering Quotas
11. Connecting to the Local Area Network
12. Naming Services and NIS
13. Connecting to the Internet
14. Connecting Serial Devices
15. Dialing in with PPP
16. Configuring DNS
17. Adding SCSI Devices
18. NFS, DFS, and Autofs
19. Time, Date, and NTP
20. Setting Up the Mail System
21. Kernels and All About Them
22. Backing Up and Restoring the System

A. Settings Used Throughout the Book
B. Security Checklist