Book description
Complete solutions for every Solaris OE sysadmin.
Step-by-step solutions for every key Solaris OE system administration task
From basic user administration to complex enterprise networking
Filesystems, kernels, shells, Internet/DNS, email, PPP, NIS, backup/restore, and much more
Extensive examples, sample output, and shell scripts
Includes coverage of Solaris 8 and 9 Operating Environments
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!
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Introduction
- The System Administrator's Role
- Booting and Halting the System
- User Administration
- Permissions and All That
- Shells
- The Filesystem and Its Contents
- Swap Space
- Administering Packages
- Patching the System
- Administering Quotas
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Connecting to the Local Area Network
- Objectives
- Description
- IP Addressing Schemes
- Choosing an IP Address
- Our Values
- Naming Systems
- Host Names
- Loopback Interface
- Initial Network Testing
- Configuring the Interface
- Routing
- Connecting the Second Subnet
- Adding the Gateway
- Routing—A Second Look
- Address Resolution
- IPV6—The Next Generation
- Traceroute
- Conclusion
- Naming Services and NIS
- Connecting to the Internet
- Connecting Serial Devices
- Dialing in with PPP
- Configuring DNS
- Adding SCSI Devices
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NFS, DFS, and Autofs
- Objectives
- Network Filesystem
- Distributed Filesystem
- Autofs
- The Build Order
- Remote Procedure Call
- Configuring the Server
- Setting Up the Clients
- Server Share Options
- Access Lists
- Client Mount Options
- Authentication
- The Autofs
- Our Configuration
- Metacharacters
- Client Failover
- Testing
- Naming Services and Autofs
- Conclusion
- Time, Date, and NTP
- Setting Up The Mail System
- Kernels and All About Them
- Backing Up and Restoring the System
- Settings Used Throughout the Book
- Security Checklist
Product information
- Title: Solaris™ Operating Environment Boot Camp
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2002
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780130342874
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