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DIGITAL Unix Administrator's Guide

M.L.Luvisetto - E. Ugolini

Introduction
System Administration
System Boot and bios flags
- bios Setup Examples
- Run Levels
- System Date
- Boot Failures
System Customization and Startup
- /etc/inittab
- /sbin/init directories
- Periodical Processes
- National Components
- Timezone
- System Performance
Configuring the Kernel
- /sbin/sysconfig
- Static System Configuration
- Adding a new device
- Adding selected kernel options
- Building a kernel after editing system files
- Static configuration files
- Extending the target configuration file
- The param.c file
- Configuration File Entries
- Global Keywords
- File System Metadata Cache Size
- Virtual Memory
- System Definition Keyword
- The callout Keyword Definitions
- The options Keyword Definitions
- Miscellaneous Tuning
- Standard Digital Unix and Miscellaneous Keywords
- Administering Devices with DDR
Network Management
Managing Storage
- Administering the Unix File System
- Disk Partitions
- Adding Swap Space
- UNIX File System Structure UFS
- File System and Directory Hierarchy
- Directories and File Types
- Creating File Systems
- Checking File Systems
- Mounting File Systems
- Tuning File Systems
- Maintaining and Monitoring Disks
- Setting User and Group Quotas for UFS
- Partitioning Disks
- Checking for Overlapping Partitions
- Cloning Disks
Administering the Advanced File System
- AdvFS File Domains
- AdvFS Filesets and File Systems
- Setting Up the Advanced File System
- Advfs Quotas
- Backup of AdvFS Data
- Restoring the /etc/fdmns Directory for AdvFS
- Guidelines to AdvFS File System Conversion
- Converting the root File System to AdvFS
- Using a Backup Tape to Convert /usr from UFS to AdvFS
- Using an Intermediate File to Convert from UFS to AdvFS
- Converting to AdvFS from One Disk to Another Disk
- Using Backup Tapes to Convert Data from UFS to AdvFS
- Transferring and Converting to AdvFS Existing Data File Systems
SCSI Management with scu
- SCU Commands
- scu General Command Examples
- scu Maintenance Commands
- scu Maintainance Command Examples
Administering the System Accounting Services
Event Logging
- System Event Logging
- Binary Event Logging
- The syslog.conf File
- The binlog.conf File
- Creating the Special Files
- Starting and Stopping the Event-Logging Daemons
- Recovering Event Logs After a System Crash
- Maintaining Log Files
System Version, Level and Upgrades - daily
Stopping user logins - daily
Timing jobs - daily
Performing tar archives - daily
Performing dump and vdump archives - daily
- dump Usage - daily
- vdump Usage - daily
Using vbackup archives - daily
Installing ssh - daily
Getting a2ps from the network - daily
Adding Disks and Tapes - daily
Adding New AdvFs disks - daily
Create New Kernel - daily
Using scu to Manage SCSI Units - daily
- SCSI Reset - daily
Login-logout - daily
Managing Users - daily
- Managing Local Users - daily
- Using adduser and removeuser - daily
- Trouble Shooting User Accounts - daily
- Managing NIS Users - daily
Setting disk quotas - daily
NFS - daily
Printing - daily
- Printer Troubleshooting - daily
- Managing Printers with lpr - daily
crontab Jobs - daily
Managing Clients - daily
Checking Event Logging on System Failure - daily
System Structure - daily
System V - daily
Device Mnemonics
Using uerf error logger
- uerf Examples
Security Troubleshooting
NFS Troubleshooting
Disk Troubleshooting
CD-ROM Information
Starting/Stopping System Processes
Relevant Utilities, Scripts, Files and Directories
Glossary
Bibliography
Contents
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luvisetto
2001-10-02