Solaris 2.X System Administration Essentials 5 Days course Language: English This course is only available on request!!

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CHAPTER 2: GETTING STARTED
1) Logging in and logging out
2) Using the shell
3) Command line formats
4) How to get help - man
5) The stty command
6) User Interfaces
7) Starting OpenWindows
8) OpenWindows Mouse Actions
9) OpenWindows Workspace Menu
10) DeskSet Applications
11) Pushpins
12) Window Behavior

CHAPTER 3: GETTING TO KNOW THE SHELL
1) The shell as a user interface
2) The standard output file
3) Appending the standard output file
4) The standard input file
5) Pipes
6) The standard error file
7) Summary of Special I/O characters
8) Shell variables
9) Quoting mechanisms
10) Command substitution
11) The shell prompt variables
12) File name generation characters
13) Alias
14) Functions
15) The History Mechanism
16) Editing the command line

CHAPTER 4: THE FILE SYSTEM
1) User view of the file system
2) Files types
3) File system concepts
4) The /etc/passwd file
5) Directory commands
6) File access permissions
7) Groups
8) The chmod command
9) Using the umask

CHAPTER 5: SOLARIS EDITORS
1) Solaris Editors
2) Starting ed
3) Simple ed session
4) Format of ed commands
5) Another ed session
6) Summary of ed commands
7) Searching with ed
8) Substituting with ed
9) The vi editor
10) Editing an existing file
11) Adding text
12) Cursor movement commands
13) vi modes
14) Deleting text
15) Changing text
16) Copying and moving text
17) Searching for text
18) Last line mode
19) vi customization
20) Odds and ends

CHAPTER 6: FILE COMMANDS
1) Relative vs complete pathname
2) The shell's search algorithm
3) ls command - list files in a directory
4) cat command - concatenate files
5) rm command - remove files
6) mv command - rename a file
7) cp command - copy a file
8) ln command - give file additional name
9) cmp & diff commands-compare two files
10) file command - determine file type
11) pg command - page through a file
12) find command

CHAPTER 7: COMMONLY USED COMMANDS
1) grep - display lines matching a pattern
2) wc - count words, lines, and characters
3) sort - sort lines of a file
4) head - display first few lines of a file
5) tail - display last few lines of a file
6) tr - translate one set of characters to another
7) cut - cut characters or fields from lines
8) od - octal dump a file
9) paste - paste lines from files together
10) split - split a file into smaller pieces
11) uniq - report repeated lines in a file

CHAPTER 8: THE mailx COMMAND
1) The mailx command
2) Sending mail
3) Reading your mail
4) Commands within mailx
5) Replying to mail
6) Tilde commands
7) mailx customization
8) Sending binary files
9) Decoding Binary files
10) Sending Directories

CHAPTER 9: A HISTORY OF SUN'S DESKTOP HARDWARE MODEL
1) Introduction
2) Sun-1* - Sun-4*
3) SPARCstations
4) 1991-1992
5) 1992-1994
6) 1994-Present

CHAPTER 10: WORK STATION BOOT LEVEL COMMANDS
1) boot PROM
2) Advantages of the OpenBoot PROM
3) Accessing the OpenBoot PROM
4) The Openboot’s Programming Language
5) Changing the OpenBoot settings
6) Using the Prom to protect your machine
7) What happens when a SUN boots
8) Available boot devices
9) Device Trees
10) Useful Diagnostic Boot Commands
11) Booting a Sun System

CHAPTER 11: INSTALLING THE OPERATING SYSTEM
1) Introduction
2) Client/Server Relationship
3) Solaris Installation Options
4) Hardware Requirements
5) Installation
6) Booting with the CD-ROM
7) Configuring the Workstation
8) Hardware Configuration
9) File Systems
10) The Final States
11) The root password

CHAPTER 12: SYSTEM CONCEPTS
1) Solaris Operating System Properties and Programs
2) The Kernel
3) Shells
4) Swap Space
5) The File System
6) Standalone Workstations
7) Distributed Processing
8) Networks
9) Terminology

CHAPTER 13: FILE SYSTEMS
1) Basic Principles
2) Disk Architecture
3) Disk Partitions
4) Logical Device Names
5) Mounting
6) File System Structure
7) File Types
8) Managing Disk Space

CHAPTER 14: ADMINISTRATION TOOL
1) Introduction
2) Different Ways of Adding a User
3) Starting Admintool
4) Adding a group to the system
5) Adding Users with Admintool
6) Password Aging
7) Home Directory
8) Modifying a User Account
9) Deleting a User Account

CHAPTER 15: SYSTEM AND USER SECURITY
1) Passwords
2) Superuser
3) Using the root Account
4) User Identification
5) /etc/passwd
6) /etc/shadow
7) /etc/group

CHAPTER 16: SYSTEM FILES
1) System Defaults
2) /etc/default/passwd
3) /etc/default/login
4) /etc/default/su
5) /var/adm/sulog
6) Initialization Files
7) Initialization Scripts
8) Skeleton Files
9) Shell Features

CHAPTER 17: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION UTILITIES
1) Introduction
2) The tar command
3) The compress command
4) The uncompress command
5) The find command

CHAPTER 18: LINE PRINTER PRINT SERVICE
1) The LP print Service
2) Features
3) Printers
4) /usr/share/lib/terminfo
5) Environment
6) Configuring the Print Service
7) Physical Connection
8) Software Configuration of the Server
9) Software Configuration of the Client
10) Printer Access
11) Adding Local Printer Fields
12) Add Remote Printer Fields
13) Modifying an Existing Printer
14) The lp command
15) Line Printer commands
16) Canceling a print request
17) The lpstat command
18) accept and reject
19) enable and disable
20) lpmove
21) lpadmin

CHAPTER 19: NETWORKING WITH SOLARIS
1) Introduction
2) The Internet
3) An Internet
4) Ethernet
5) Addresses
6) Setting up Network Addresses
7) Transferring Files
8) Running Commands on a remote host
9) Remote Login
10) Useful Network Commands

CHAPTER 20: PROCESSES
1) Processes
2) Parent and child processes
3) The ps command
4) Foreground vs background
5) The kill command
6) Suspending jobs
7) The jobs command
8) The fg and bg commands
9) The at command
10) The crontab command

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