The best-selling tutorial and reference for Solaris system administrators.

• The essential guide to Solaris 8 system administration!
• Covers the latest features and management tools
• Administering users, devices, systems, networks, printing, and more
• Maximizing efficiency, productivity, and system availability

Solaris System Administrator's Guide, Third Edition is the perfect quick-start tutorial for system administrators new to the Solaris Operating Environment—and the perfect fast-access reference for veteran Solaris administrators. Thoroughly updated to reflect Solaris 8's latest management tools, it covers all aspects of day-to-day administration, showing exactly how to maximize efficiency, reliability, and availability in any Solaris environment. Coverage includes:

• Basic administration: superuser status, startup/shutdown, monitoring processes, and communicating with users
• Solaris commands: user and environment information, working with files and disks, redirecting output, reading manual pages, and more
• Solaris shells: Bourne, C, Korn, Bourne-Again, TC, and Z
• Administering user accounts, file systems, and roles-including Solaris 8's new Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Administering devices and systems: Service Access Facility, configuring additional swap space, creating local e-mail aliases, and more
• Administering network services: remote administration, Solaris AdminSuiteTM 3.0 tools, NIS+, IPv6, and more

From troubleshooting file access to tracking network performance, streamlining printing to backing up filesystems, this book delivers authoritative, accessible information you'll use today—and every day.