Archive for January, 2006

Monitor system access by using appropriate commands.

System access can be monitored with several commands. The simplest is who which lists the currently logged in users. The variant command w provides the information contained in who plus what command each user is running. Read the rest of this entry »

Ahh, users.. can’t live with them.. can’t live without… anyway, users on a Solaris system are important not only because they give humans an identity on the system, but also because all files and processes are owned by a specific user. Administering users and their initialization files has a great impact on system operation.

Explain and perform Solaris 10 OS user administration, and manage user accounts and initialization files.

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Solaris 10 includes the greatest changes in service management perhaps in the history of Solaris. The new Service Management Facilify (SMF) handles process startup, stopping, monitoring, and restarting, although the old legacy techniques of runtime control scripts still work. For the first few minutes, you may ask yourself why they did this to you, how could they, what mean people. After a few minutes, you’re more likely to come up with a song to sing in honor of your new friend, svccfg. Read the rest of this entry »