System Administration Guide: Basic Administration is part of a set that includes a significant part of the Solaris system administration information. This guide contains information for both SPARC based and x86 based systems.This book assumes you have completed the following tasks:Installed the Solaris Express Operating System Set up all the networking software that you plan to use For the Solaris release, new features that might be interesting to system administrators are covered in sections called What's New in ... ? in the appropriate chapters.&platformnote; This book is intended for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems running the Solaris release. To use this book, you should have 1-2 years of UNIX system administration experience. Attending UNIX system administration training courses might be helpful. &sagset;Sun is not responsible for the availability of third-party web sites mentioned in this document. Sun does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials that are available on or through such sites or resources. Sun will not be responsible or liable for any actual or alleged damage or loss caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods, or services that are available on or through such sites or resources. &sundocs;&typeconv;Be aware of the following conventions used in this book.When following steps or using examples, be sure to type double-quotes ("), left single-quotes (`), and right single-quotes (') exactly as shown. The key referred to as Return is labeled Enter on some keyboards. The root path usually includes the /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, and /etc directories, so the steps in this book show the commands in these directories without absolute path names. Steps that use commands in other, less common, directories show the absolute paths in the examples. The examples in this book are for a basic SunOS software installation without the Binary Compatibility Package installed and without /usr/ucb in the path.If /usr/ucb is included in a search path, it should always be at the end of the search path. Commands like ps or df are duplicated in /usr/ucb with different formats and options from the SunOS commands.