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Additional info with SA 239 (Intermediate Sysadmin course)

1. File system structure

• Man pages:
  • filesystem
  • file
  • intro (section 4)
  • ln
  • ls
  • find

2. Managing local devices

• Man pages:
  • path_to_inst
  • prtconf
  • format
  • devfsadm
  • prtvtoc
  • fmthard
• Sites:
  • Basic Administration Guide: Chapter 27 Managing Devices

3. UFS

• Man pages:
  • newfs
  • fstyp
  • tunefs
  • fsck
  • df
  • du
  • quot
• Sites:
  • Basic Administration Guide: Chapter 36: The format Utility
  • Basic Administration Guide: Chapter 37: Managing File Systems

4. Mound and umount

• Man pages:
  • mount
  • vfstab
  • mnttab
  • umount
  • vold
• Sites:
  • Basic Administration Guide: Chapter 40: Mounting and Unmounting File Systems
  • Repairing important files

5. Install

• Sites:
  • Solaris 9 Installation Guide

6. Packages

• Man pages:
  • pkgadd
  • pkgcheck
  • pkgrm
• Sites:
  • Basic Administration Guide: Chapter 23: Managing Software
  • GNU Directory
  • vIm text editor
  • Installing software from source
  • Sunfreeware
  • The Gnome 2.0 Desktop

7. Patches

• Man pages:
  • patchadd
  • patchrm
  • showrev
• Sites:
  • Patches and patch clusters
  • Solaris Live Upgrade
  • PatchPro

8. OpenBoot

• Man Pages:
  • eeprom
• Sites:
  • OpenBoot FAQ

9. Boot and shutdown

• Man pages:
  • init
  • inittab
  • system
  • shutdown
• Sites:
  • Basic Administration Guide: Chapter 9-15: Shutting down and Booting a System

10. Users and groups

• Man pages:
  • passwd (section 4)
  • group
  • shadow
  • useradd
  • usermod
  • userdel
  • groupadd
  • groupdel
  • groupmod
  • profile
• Sites:
  • Managing Users and Groups
  • Advanced Administration: Chapter 30: Troubleshooting file access problems
  • SunONE Directory Server 5.2

11. System Security

• Man pages:
  • who
  • last
  • su
  • chmod
  • ssh
  • scp
  • ssh-keygen
• Sites:
  • OpenSSH: put an end to unencrypted network logins
  • SANS Top 20: The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities

12. Print Services

• Man pages:
  • lpd
  • lpsched
  • enable
  • disable
  • accept
  • reject
  • lpadmin
  • lpmove
• Sites:
  • CUPS: Common UNIX Printing System
  • Advanced Administration: Managing Printing Services

13. Print Commands

• Man pages:
  • lp
  • lpstat
  • cancel

14. Processes

• Man pages:
  • ps
  • prstat
  • pgrep
  • pkill
  • kill
  • signal (section 3head)
  • cron
  • crontab
  • at
  • priocntl
  • sdtprocess
  • uptime
• Sites:
  • Advanced Administration: Chapter 18: Scheduling system tasks
  • Advanced Administration: Chapter 21: Managing System Performance
  • sunfreeware.com: the top program and the psutils package

15. Backups

• Man pages:
  • st
  • mt
  • ufsdump
  • tar
• Sites:
  • Basic Administration Guide: Chapter 47: Backing up files and file systems
  • Basic Administration Guide: Chapter 51: Copying UFS files and file systems
  • Using Amanda (see also www.amanda.org)
  • Solstice Backup 5.1 Collection
  • Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup SOftware 7.0

16. Restores

• Man pages:
  • ufsrestore
  • mt
  • tar
• Sites:
  • Basic Administration: Chapter 49: Restoring files and file systems
  • Legato Networker 7.0 Disaster Recovery Guide

17. File System Snapshots

• Man pages:
  • fssnap
• Sites:
  • Basic Administration: Chapter 48: Using UFS Snapshots