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Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide

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Printed Page 3

Apache Jserv is referred to as "freeware" when it is in
fact using an OSI approved license, making it "open source software".

Anonymous   
Printed Page 14

Last paragraph;
Under "Four Subnets," my copy printed in January 2002 reads,

"Fortunately, the number of routers required to interconnect a network is $N^{s-1}$,
where $N^s$ is the number of subnets in the network."

Since (s-1) is typeset as an exponent to N, it looks like an exponential relationship
rather than just one less than the number of subnets. It would have been clearer to
me if the number of subnets was written $N_s$ or just N; then the number of routers
required is just N-1. But even with the number of subnets written as $N^s$, the
number of routers required should technically be $N^s - 1$, not $N^{s-1}$.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 17

paragraph 4 states that /etc/services is consulted by getprotobyname().
the getprotobyname(3SOCKET) man page makes no reference to this. Shouldn't
that be /etc/inet/protocols / /etc/protocols, and not /etc/services? /etc/services is
consulted by the getservby*() functions. (test with truss)

Anonymous   
Printed Page 21

paragraph 1: IPv6 TCP/UDP should use tcp6/udp6 as the protocol
names, not tcp/udp

Anonymous   
Printed Page 30

second snoop sample outpu;
In the "snoop -v" sample output, the line reading "normal throughurleyut" probably
meant to say, "normal throughput".

Anonymous   
Printed Page 55

bullet item 1 "support for single, dual, and quad _port_ ethernet
devices" would be clearer

Anonymous   
Printed Page 56

last paragraph "connected using 10/100M cabling" should either
be "10/100Mb ethernet" or "CAT3/5 cabling". Page 57 subsequently references
"100M ethernet cable". 100M is not a cable type.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 57

Figure 4-3 "Routers" should be "Router's"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 77

1st paragraph: if the host name lookup
fails, because the host is not found (NOTFOUND),
the local host file is NOT consulted if [NOTFOUND=return]
is used. To check the next available service, [NOTFOUND=return] should be taken OUT.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 78

sentence after the first example: service
should be plural (netgroup and public key services).

Anonymous   
Printed Page 80

bullet item two: Berkley Internet Daemon (BIND)
should be Berkley Internet Name Domain (BIND)

Anonymous   
Printed Page 82
2nd paragraph

Paragraph starts: "The include section allows certain sections of the /var/named.conf
file to be spun out..."

I think it should read "... of the /etc/named.conf file..."

Anonymous   
Printed Page 84

networks:byname should be networks.byname

{109/110}
no mention of userdel or groupdel (only
mentions manual deletion of users and groups)

Anonymous   
Printed Page 113

bullet item 7: should read "installation OF setuid/setgid"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 125

paragraph 3: "hole" should be "holes"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 126

paragraph 2, last sentence: "declares" should be "declared"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 138

Gb (gigabit) is used instead of GB (gigabyte)

Anonymous   
Printed Page 143

table 7-1 domain logins should be domain logons

Anonymous   
Printed Page 156

table 7-4, NFSERR_ISDIR A requested FILE exists as a directory (not files).

Anonymous   
Printed Page 156

paragraph 4: sentence one should read something like "startup scripts
located in the /etc/init.d directory and
may be HARD linked FROM the appropriate rc directory (e.g., /etc/init.d/nfs.server
maybe be linked FROM /etc/rc2.d/S99nfs.server)." Solaris hard, not symbolically,
links startup scripts from the rcX.d directories, and the link target is what is
linked TO.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 157

last paragraph: Sentence one should read something like "The dfmounts
COMMAND only provides details of remotely MOUNTED filesystems, and does not provide
details on user permissions on shared volumes"; it doesn't show any information about
shared filesystems unless they are actually mounted by a client. Also, in regards to
sentence two, the share command does NOT provide information about filesystems that
are currently remotely mounted; it shows shared filesystems, irrespective of whether
they are actually mounted or not.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 158

command one: should have read:

mount -F nfs -o rw kiribati:/data /kiribati/data

the host name was left out

command four should really use '-F nfs' to mount only
NFS filesystems

Anonymous   
Printed Page 165

paragraph 2: example file is called sum.txt in the text, e.txt
in the command example, and name.txt in the example's output

Anonymous   
Printed Page 168

Gb (gigabit) is used instead of GB (gigabyte)

Anonymous   
Printed Page 172

command example two: should specify that you need to cd to the /etc
directory

Anonymous   
Printed Page 182
last pargraph

The last paragraph says "To copy the contents of a tape...", but uses the name of a
disk partition (/dev/rdsk/c0t0d2s1).

Anonymous   
Printed Page 183

command example two: the * needs to be double quoted, else the list
of files in the current directory will be passed as arguments to the cpio command

Anonymous   
Printed Page 188

crontab command examples: field five should be 0 for Sunday (and
all subsequent entries should have their fifth field decremented by one to
get Monday-Friday). 1 is for Monday.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 188

last paragraph: the AMANDA backup software is "freeware", when
it should be called "Free Software", since it is an FSF approved Free Software
license.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 193

paragraph 4, sentence one should have "user on the" before "system".

Anonymous   
Printed Page 193
last paragraph

"The login shell specified must be listed in the /etc/shells file; otherwise, the
user will not be able to log in."

/etc/shells doesn't exist on our system, and anybody can log in.

Is this like the "allow"/"deny" files, where if the file isn't there, no check is
made?

Anonymous   
Printed Page 208

paragraph two, sentence one: should read "...to be passed TO the class
C..."

Anonymous   
Printed Page 210

paragraph two, sentence 3 is very unclear. Perhaps it should
just say "....administration facilities, the web server will be listening on this
port."

Anonymous   
Printed Page 211

last paragraph, sentence 4 is extremely unclear. It seems
to imply that _TCP_ (packet) is *protected* by _UDP_ (datagram). Obviously,
this makes no sense.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 226

last heading;
Isn't it "Object Brokering?"

Is "Object Broking" a phrase?
(seems its a common mistake).

Anonymous