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M

m4 sendmail configuration, 671-674

features, 672-673

macros, 672

parameters, 673-674

sample file, 674

MAC (Media Access Control) addresses

Ethernet and, 603

format of, 606

as hardware address, 586

macros, m4, 671

magnetic tapes. See tape media

mail headers, 664-665, 675-676

mail transport, 665-668. See also Transport Layer

mail transport agents (MTAs), 155, 659, 665

mail user agents (MUAs), 659, 663, 670

mailing list resources, 26

mailx, 663, 670

maintenance activities, system accounts and, 122

man command, 5

management console, SMC. See SMC (Solaris Management Console)

Manager role, iDS servers, 564, 567

maps

automounter master maps, 452-453

NIS system, 479-480

master maps, automounter, 452-453

mean time between failures (MTBFs), 417

media, for backups , 285-288

CD-R/RWs, 288

hard drives , 286-287

tape, 286

zip/jaz disks, 288

media types, Ethernet, 601-602

Metcalfe, Robert, 602

Microsoft

enterprise operating systems, 10

Office, 4-5

Microsoft Windows. See Windows operating systems

MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), 676-677, 680

minus operator (-), 208

mirroring, RAID, 421-422

configuration, 419

mirroring disk data, 105

mkdir command, 223-224

creating mount points, 267, 274

mkfile command, 261

mkfs command, 261-262

mobile computing, Solaris innovations, 17

modem access, 335

adding modems, 338-339

ISP selection, 340

pmadm command, 341

port listeners, 337

port monitors , 335

PPP and, 336-337

PPP set up, 339

sacadm command, 341

SAF, 335-336

serial ports, 337-338

tip command, 341

ttymon and, 339-340

Modify Application screen, SMC, 527

monacct (monthly account summary), 407

monitoring system activity

accounting. See system accounting

logging. See logging

performance. See performance

Q & A, answers, 416

Q & A, questions, 414-416

monitoring user activity, 145-146

monitors, set up with kdmconfig, 78-79

more command, 224

motherboards, 52

mount command, 276-277. See also automounter

attaching file systems to mount points, 274-275

CacheFS file system and, 458

CD formats supported, 352

listing mounted file systems, 276

mounting remote file systems, 443-444

options, 276-277

mount points

attaching to file systems, 274-275

/ cdrom , 352

hard drives, 358

local file systems, 273-274

remote mounting, 438

mpstat command, 409, 411-412

MS-DOS file system FF(pcfs), 40

MTAs (mail transport agents), 155, 659, 665

MTBFs (mean time between failures), 417

MUAs (mail user agents), 659, 663, 670

multicast addresses, 605-606, 649

multihomed hosts , 622, 628

multimedia, Solaris support for, 16

multiprocessing, UNIX systems, 7

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME), 676-677, 680

multithreaded, UNIX systems, 7

multithreading library, new features in Solaris 9, 23

multiuser/multitasking capacity, UNIX systems, 7, 40-41

multiuser, startup scripts, 99