This title provides clear and concise instruction on how to perform important administration and management tasks using Solaris, as well as how to use some of the more powerful commands and more advanced topics found in version 2.6 through version 8. The scope of Solaris 8 Essential Reference includes the best way to implement the most frequently used commands, deal with shell scripting, administer your own system, and utilize effective security.
: John P. Mulligan is the creator and maintainer of SolarisGuide.com, the leading online information resource about the Solaris operating environment. The site features technical manuals, FAQs and news. John spent thee years in the Computing Support Services department at Lafayette College working on just about every aspect of Unix systems administration and management. He migrated all the college Sun SPARCstations from SunOS 4.x to SunOS 5.x (a.k.a. Solaris 2.x) last year. During this time he started to collect as much information as he could about Solaris-specifically the migration of SunOS 4.x to Solaris 2.x. As a chemical engineer, his research on the modeling of microfluidic flows was performed using Sun Solaris workstations.
I. GENERAL USAGE REFERENCE.
1. Text Utilities.II. DEVELOPER REFERENCE.
5. Compilers/Interpreters.III. ADMININSTRATION AND MAINTENANCE TASK REFERENCE.
8. Startup and Shutdown.IV. APPENDICES.
Appendix A. Solaris Version Changes.