Appendix G. Solaris to Linux Migration: A Guide for System Administrators

In this appendix

G.1	Packaging Tasks	page 676
G.2	Installation and Upgrade Tasks	page 677
G.3	User Management Tasks	page 679
G.4	Network Management and Configuration	page 680
G.5	NFS Management and Configuration	page 681
G.6	Managing System Resources	page 682
G.7	Disk and Filesystem Management	page 683
G.8	Swap Management	page 684
G.9	Logical Volume Management	page 685
G.10	General Troubleshooting	page 688
G.11	Network Troubleshooting	page 690
G.12	Configuration and Other Files	page 691
G.13	Comparable Commands	page 693

This appendix contains tables from appendix A and B, excerpted from the IBM Redbook titled "Solaris to Linux Migration: A Guide for System Administrators," available at www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg247186.html?Open, reprinted courtesy of IBM.

As a porting engineer, you may find the need to configure some Linux parameters or devices to be able to run your unit and system tests on the ported application. We include this content to provide you with some technical perspective on Linux system administration. It presents differences in system administration tasks between Solaris and Linux, but as a reference, it will be as useful for AIX and HP-UX as well.