P

packages, 26, 31, 42–48, 54

checking, 45–46, 55

oplions, 45–46

commands for, 43

components, 43

control files, 43

installation scripts, 43

objects, 43

optional, 42, 43

control files, 42

converting format of, 58–59

copying to system, 45

defined, 42

installation scripts, 42

installing, 26, 42–45, 55

device name, 45

options and arguments, 44

opening, 45

optional information files, 42

removing, 47–48

options, 48

required components, 42

retrieving information about, 46–47

options, 47

Solaris 10 OS and, 42

spooled, 55–56

storing, 55

uninstalling, 26, 56, 58

verifying correct installation, 58–59

working with, 42–52, 55

packet

data, 336

dropped, 339

header, 336

layers and, 336

monitoring with snoop command, 344

traffic, 349

parallel write, 452

parity disk, 448

partitioning, 138

file systems and, 150

menu, 143

rabies, 142

predefined, 142

password, 18, 186, 189, 192

changing, 190, 200

encrypted, 172, 187, 188, 190, 194

expiration, 190

guidelines for, 168–169

management, 198, 199–200

patch, 26, 31, 41

administration, 42, 48–53

applying, 49

compressed format, 49

defined, 48

ID, 48–49

installing, 26, 49–51, 53

managing with patchadd command, 49–52

options, 49–50

revision information about, 53, 56

uninstalling, 26, 52–53, 56, 58

uninstalling with patchrm command, 52

working with, 42–52, 55

path name, 421

path settings, 184

path to mount point, master maps file and, 434

PATH variable, 186

pax archive, 288

PC file system, 108

permission, mode, 215

permissions, 212–219, 228, 230

octal, 228

absolute mode options, 217

chmod command, 217

read, 214

read and write, 203

setgid, 219, 220–221

setuid, 219, 219–220

special, setting on a file, 222

sticky bit, 221

symbols and, 213

user designation and, 216

write, 214

pipe operator, 23

pipes, 212

piping, 22

Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), 325

policy configuration file, 485–486

port, 318, 351

number, 316

destination, 336

source, 336

reserved, well-known applications and, 318

TCP, 318

UDP, 318

Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), 10

standards and, 10

POST, 64, 67, 90, 92

displaying to serial port for SPARC, 64

power cycle, 65

power off, init 5 command and, 92

power on self test (POST), 66, 93, 98, 99

Preboot Execution Environment (PXE), 543

booting and installing with, 524–528

boot and installation, client and, 526–527

booting, 524–525, 545

installing Solaris over network and, 525

booting an x86 machine over network, 527

DHCP server and, 525, 545

configuring, 525–526

installation metlhod, 504

installation over a network

DHCP server, 525

install server, 525

PXE support, 524

requirements for, 524

installing with, 545

install server and, 525

Intel, 542

support, 524

x86-based systems, 523, 545

Primary Boot Subsystem menu, x86 processor and, 79

print, servers, 252

printers

access to, 265

adding new, 258–259

commands syntax for, 258

options for, 258

adding remote, 258

administering, 254–258

tasks related to, 254

checking status of, 255

clients, 252

controlling client access to, 260

options for, 261

default, 254

initializing, 263

managing, 266, 267

printing

listener service, 270

problems, alerts about, 263

with Solaris SMF svcs and svvcadm commands, 256

print jobs

correct formal and, 263

tracking status of, 263

print process, Solaris

overview of, 253

steps in, 253–254

print requests, 255, 257–258

administering, 234, 263

canceling, 257–258

with cancel command, 265, 267

from remote clients, 253

status of, 262

print scheduler, 265, 270

daemon (lpsched), 255, 265, 267

SMF commands and, 271

starting and stopping, 255–257

print service

configuring on Solaris, 270

process

states, summary of, 237

processes, 12

argument string, 268

control commands, 266

controlling, 243–246, 263, 266

signals and, 244

steps in, 243

daemon, 234

kill command and, 266

killing, 268–269

crashing the system and, 244

managing

with commands, 235

with the SMC GUI, 252

process ID and, 12

properties and commands, 241

resources and, 243

scheduling, 246–252, 263, 266

with at command, 266

with crontab file, 266

with the cron utility, 246–248

for one-time execution, 250

reasons for, 246

scripts, 234

stopping, 243

viewing, 234–243, 266

with the pgrep command, 235

with the prstat command, 235

with the ps command, 234, 235, 242

process file system (PROCFS), 109

process ID (PID), 237, 243, 263, 271

process information, displaying, 268

processor architectures

AMD64, 26

IA-32, 26

SPARC64, 26

UltraSPARC, 26

profiles, 494, 495

database, 496, 501

programmable read-only memory (PROM)

chip, 64

commands, 69

programs

bootblk, 66, 93

mboot, 85

pboot, 85

ufsboot, 66, 93

protocol layers, OSI and Internet layering models and, 321

protocols, 312–313, 353

protocol-to-port mapping, 318