P
PA (Primary Administrator), 501, 504-505
package management, 236-251
commands, 251
installing with admintool, 244-249
installing with CUI, 241-243
Solstice Launcher and, 250-251
uninstalling with admintool, 249-250
uninstalling with CUI, 243-244
viewing package information, 238-241
viewing properties, 237
packet filtering firewalls, 626, 632-634. See also IP filtering
packets
filtering, 622, 625-627
local networks, 623-624
moving beyond local networks, 625
structure of, 624
partitions. See disk partitions
passwords, 128-130
commands, 130
database for, 128-129
protecting superuser accounts, 139
random generation application, 242
root password and, 84
security of, 129-130
patches, 308-312
buffer overflows and, 308
list of latest, 309
patchadd command, 312
patchrm command, 312-313
sendmail and, 671
showrev command, 311-312
SunSolve Patch Report, 310
viewing installed, 311
Web site resource for, 308
PC support, Solaris innovations, 17-18
pcfs (MS-DOS file system), 40
PDAs (personal digital assistants), 17
performance
data collection, 409-412
iDS servers, 563-564
NFS, 445-446
tuning, 412-414
permissions. See also file permissions
administrators role in granting, 138
package management and, 251
personal digital assistants (PDAs), 17
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), 541-543
physical device names , 255-256
physical network interfaces, 622
physical security, 149-150
PID (process identifier), 44, 167-168
ping command
checking accessibility of remote hosts , 383-384
network troubleshooting with, 593
Point-to-Point Protocol. See PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
POP (Post Office Protocol), 662-663
port monitors , 335
managing, 340-341
setting up port listeners, 337
ttymon and, 339-340
portmapper , status, 442-443
ports
allowed by IP filtering, 626-627
configuring as terminal, 335
disabling unnecessary, 150-151
managing with SAF, 335-336
monitoring active services, 146-147
TCP and UDP, 588
Post Office Protocol (POP), 662-663
POSTs (power-on self tests), 100
power management, Solaris configuration and, 83-84
power-on self tests (POSTs), 100
power supplies , dual, 105, 417
PPP daemon (pppd), 335-336
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
ANU version, 336-337
setting up, 339
SMC and, 516
pppd (PPP daemon), 335-336
preinstallation planning, 69-71
boot manager and, 78-79
device names and, 72-73
disk formatting and virtual memory and, 77-78
disk partitions and, 75-77
disk space and, 71-72
Intel and, 73-75
SPARC and, 73
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), 541-543
Primary Administrator (PA), 501, 504-505
priority value (PRI), 537
privileges, administrators role in granting, 138. See also permissions
probe-scci command, 62, 73
process identifier (PID), 44, 167-168
processes, 167-169
allocating resources, 537-539
automating jobs, 178
kill command, 187-188
killall command, 188
listing, 171-174
lsof command, 184-187
managing, 44, 180-181
monitoring, 174-176
pgrep command, 188
PID (process identifier) and, 167
pkill command, 188
proc tools, 181-184
PROCFS (process file system) and, 425-427
ps command, 187
Q & A, answers, 190
Q & A, questions, 189-190
scheduling, 178-180
sending signals, 169-170
truss program and, 176-178
PROCFS (process file system), 425-430
commands, 427-430
managing processes and, 180
Q & A, answers, 435
Q & A, questions, 432-435
profiles
RBAC, 502
roles and authorizations and, 503-504
programming languages. See languages, programming
prompts, OpenBoot PROM, 57-58
properties, packages, 237
protection levels, U.S. Department of Defense, 148
protocols, also by individual type
e-mail, 660-664
routing, 629
Solaris supported, 613
prtconf command
checking device configuration, 361-362
device management and, 260-261
viewing device information with, 42-44
ps command
functions of, 168-169
listing processes, 171-174, 537
options, 187
PS1/PS2 environment variables , 206-207
pseudo file systems, 425-430
public-key cryptography, 540-543