List of Figures

Chapter 1: UNIX Operating System: Mind the Gap

Figure 1-1: Relationship among applications, operating system, and computer hardware

Figure 1-2: Structure of UNIX

Figure 1-3: Relationship among the commands, shells, and kernel

Figure 1-4: A very small part of the directory hierarchy created during Solaris installation (the directory jkerry is a fictitious directory name that you can create inside the home directory; it's not part of the directories automatically created)

Chapter 2: Installing Solaris 10 Software

Figure 2-1: Different software groups. Each group includes the functionality of the inner groups

Chapter 3: Performing System Boot and Shutdown

Figure 3-1: Steps in the boot process

Figure 3-2: Fields of an entry in the /etc/inittab file

Figure 3-3: Relationship between run levels and run control scripts

Chapter 5: Managing Disks

Figure 5-1: A disk platter with tracks and sectors

Figure 5-2: A disk with tracks, sectors, and cylinders

Figure 5-3: The structure of a logical device name for a device on a SPARC-based system

Figure 5-4: Structure of a logical device name for a disk with a direct controller, such as an IDE controller, on an x86-based system

Chapter 6: Performing User Administration

Figure 6-1: Entry in the /etc/passwd file corresponding to a user account

Figure 6-2: Entry in the /etc/shadow file corresponding to a user account

Figure 6-3: Entry in the group file corresponding to a group of users

Chapter 8: Managing Network Printers and System Processes

Figure 8-1: An example of an entry in the crontab file that specifies that the script diskchecker will be executed at 9—15 A.M. on each Sunday and Wednesday every week, every month

Figure 8-2: Overview of the Solaris print process

Chapter 9: Performing System Backups and Restores

Figure 9-1: A yearly backup strategy to meet the requirement of being able to restore files from the past four weeks

Figure 9-2: Relationship between direct backups, backups through snapshots, and restores

Chapter 10: Working with the Solaris Network Environment

Figure 10-1: The seven protocol layers of the OSI reference model

Figure 10-2: The five protocol layers of the TCP/IP layering model corresponding to the seven layers of the OSI model

Figure 10-3: The conceptual path taken by a message as it travels through the Internet from an application on a sender machine to an application on the recipient machine

Figure 10-4: Layout of the bus topology (all computers are attached to a single shared cable)

Figure 10-5: Layout of the ring topology (each computer is connected to its two immediate neighbors; the connection may be physical or logical)

Figure 10-6: Layout of the star topology (each computer is connected to a central device)

Figure 10-7: Flow of data across a shared Ethernet cable in the bus topology

Figure 10-8: Data encapsulation on the sender machine (a packet in a layer becomes the data part for the packet in the lower layer)

Figure 10-9: Data decapsulation at the recipient machine (a layer removes its header before passing the packet to the upper layer)

Chapter 11: Managing Naming Services

Figure 11-1: Conceptual view of DNS naming hierarchy representing a very small part of the Internet

Chapter 13: Managing Storage Volumes

Figure 13-1: Comparison of mirroring and duplexing

Figure 13-2: Disk striping writes stripes of data on multiple disks simultaneously

Chapter 14: Managing Access Control and System Messaging

Figure 14-1: Relationship between different elements of RBAC

Figure 14-2: An example showing the relationships between different RBAC databases

Chapter 15: Performing Advanced Installation

Figure 15-1: An example of how the JumpStart installation starts on a network

Figure 15-2: The process of starting JumpStart

Figure 15-3: Various zone states in the life cycle of a zone (the create and delete subcommands are used with the zonecfg command, and the other subcommands shown are used with the zoneadm command)