Projects
The concept of projects was introduced during later updates of Solaris 8. Projects are now included in the standard Solaris 9 issue and allow much improved tracking of resources and usage. The project concept is extremely useful when multiple projects use the same system and are charged for their usage of the system. In this way, it is now simple to identify and subsequently charge each project based on the resources used. Additionally, a system administrator supporting multiple projects can perform duties associated with those projects so that his time is also “booked” to the project requesting the service. He would do this using the newtask command. See the newtask manual page for further details about this command.
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