System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration is part of a set that covers a significant part of the Solaris system administration information. This guide includes information for both SPARC and x86 based systems.This book assumes that you have installed the SunOS Solaris Operating System. It also assumes that you have set up any networking software that you plan to use. The SunOS Solaris Operating System is part of the Solaris product family, which also includes many features, including the GNOME Desktop Environment. The SunOS Solaris Operating System is compliant with AT&T's System V, Release 4 operating system.For the Solaris release, new features that are interesting to system administrators are covered in sections called What's New in ... ? in the appropriate chapters.&platform; This book is intended for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that are running the Solaris release. To use this book, you should have 1-2 years of UNIX system administration experience. Attending UNIX system administration training courses might be helpful. &sagset;Sun is not responsible for the availability of third-party web sites mentioned in this document. Sun does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials that are available on or through such sites or resources. Sun will not be responsible or liable for any actual or alleged damage or loss caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods, or services that are available on or through such sites or resources. &sundocs;&typeconv;Be aware of the following conventions that are used in this book.When following steps or using examples, be sure to type double-quotes ("), left single-quotes (`), and right single-quotes (') exactly as shown. The key referred to as Return is labeled Enter on some keyboards. It is assumed that the root path includes the /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, and /etc directories, so the steps in this book show the commands in these directories without absolute path names. Steps that use commands in other, less common, directories show the absolute path in the example. The examples in this book are for a basic SunOS Solaris software installation without the Binary Compatibility Package installed and without /usr/ucb in the path.If /usr/ucb is included in a search path, it should always be at the end of the search path. Commands like ps or df are duplicated in /usr/ucb with different formats and different options from the SunOS Solaris commands.