Solaris 8: the Complete Reference (Complete Reference Series) - Softcover

Veeraraghavan, Sriranga

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072121432 ISBN 13: 9780072121438

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000

Synopsis

Everything you need to administer services on Solaris-basedsystemsMajor e-commerce players use Sun servers and Solaris to power all or parts of their Internet businesses. If this is a work environment you need to crack, reach out for Solaris: The Complete Reference, by SrirangaVeeraraghavan. This covers-it-all guide puts at your fingertips all of the critical information you need to deploy and administer services on Solaris-based systems: *Installation, system startup and shutdown, and process management *Managing devices, basic and advanced file system, and backups*Routing, Network Information Service, and managing remote access*File sharing with UNIX, Macintosh and Windows systems*Monitoring performance and system activity*More!

About this title

Review:

A solid document on the Solaris operating system, Solaris 8: The Complete Reference shows you what you need to understand if you want to make a living as an administrator of a modern Sun workstation.

Of course, this book is not absolutely complete--no technical book about a subject as large as Solaris 8 could hope to be--but it should be more than adequate for most readers' purposes. Whether you have experience with another enterprise operating system and have recently been charged with figuring out Solaris, or if you are a long-time Solaris jock and need a reference around to guide you through procedures you don't follow every day, this book fits the bill.

The book approaches each Solaris capability from a variety of angles. Most often, it takes a few pages to explain the "Solaris Way" of thinking about a problem, contrasting it with alternate approaches (such as those that might be used in Linux or Windows NT) where that's appropriate. Straight how-to material usually follows in sections with titles like "Testing Reachability", and those sections further break down into modules having to do with special cases, such as troubleshooting situations. Text and listings of input and output predominate--an effective format for an operating system that is largely driven by console activity. --David Wall

Synopsis:

Solaris is a UNIX-based operating environment which can now be run on many multi-platform workstations. This authoritative reference offers coverage of version 7, and includes sections on creating and troubleshooting system policies.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072121432
• ISBN 13: 9780072121438
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 693