Preface

This book is for beginning system administrators, system administrators new to the Solaris™ Operating Environment, or any user who wants a task-oriented quick-reference guide to basic administrative commands.

A Quick Tour of the Contents

Chapter 1, “Introducing Solaris System Administration,” describes basic administration tasks and superuser status. It tells how to communicate with users, start up and shut down systems, and monitor processes. It also introduces some frequently used commands and the new Administration Tools in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment.

Chapter 2, “Using Basic OS Commands,” describes basic commands for finding user and environment information, creating and editing files, combining commands and redirecting output, ...

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