Brian, Thanks for the suggestions.
>From: "(William) Brian Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi Kathy: > >Is the intent to keep this command line focused? In several cases there >are GUIs you can work with for: > > * Managing services > * Managing processes > * Shutting down the system > * Verifying device driver support I've changed some of the procedures to use GUIs, but probably not enough of them. I'll work on adding more GUI coverage after the 8/8 release. > >Other notes: > >How to Stop a Program: >> In this case, look for the bash process for pts/2 which has a process >> ID of 689. >For me it's pts/3 and the process id will always differ. Also, the ps >command by itself is pretty useless. I generally use "ps -ef | grep >'some string'" I've re-written this step. I'll send out a copy tomorrow. Please tell me if it still doesn't work. > >I would also echo the sentiments of others to use pfexec instead of >becoming superuser. It's much safer. It's definitely simpler since you don't need a password, but I can't see that it's safer since it gives you equivalent abilities to mess up your installation. I must be missing something. > >> Note that the Server type should be IMAP Mail Server >Why are you assuming this is the case? You're probably better off just >listing resources on how to configure Thunderbird to connect to popular >mail servers, such as Yahoo!, gmail, etc. My test of Yahoo! showed that it just worked without any tweaking, but I'll see what I can do about the others. > >> In addition to >> the system user account, >> you should create a user account and ZFS file system for your personal >> files that can be managed >> by delegating ZFS administration permissions, such as creating a file >> system snapshot. >Interesting. Why do we recommend creating a 2nd user account? I'm new to >OpenSolaris, but this is the first I've heard of this. > >> http://blogs.sun.com/timf/resource/README.zfs-auto-backup.txt >Consider pointing them to Tim's blog on this subject instead: >http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_for_the_people > Cindy - I'm going to leave these to you. >> mount -F smbfs //solarsystem/tmp /mnt >Before you can mount a SMB client you need to first enable the service >via the GUI or the command line (svcadm enable network/smb/client) > Cathleen - This one is yours. >> Shut down the system. >Shouldn't the first suggestion be the System > Shutdown menu? And from >the command line, shouldn't we recommend "shutdown" over "init 5"? > This one I just changed this morning. Right now I suggest 1) System -> Shut Down 2) init 5 3) for emergencies only - uadmin 2 6 Using init instead of shutdown seems more appropriate to me on a laptop. There is no point in sending out broadcast messages and after a quick test, shutdown doesn't seem to work. In the past the our docs have suggest shutdown for servers and init for stand-alone systems. With shutdown 0 not working right on my laptop, I'm very hesitant to add it to the doc. Please tell me if your experience with 2008.05 are different. -Kathy > >Kathy Slattery wrote: >> I have been leading a group of writers working on a >> companion to the "Getting Started" Guide. The idea >> is to document some useful procedures to help configure >> an OpenSolaris laptop after the OS is installed. >> >> Please take a look at a review draft of the >> "OpenSolaris 2008.05 System Administration Guide" >> (OSadminguide.pdf) at: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/files/ >> >> We have been working on this book for a couple of weeks, >> so we haven't had time to complete all sections or polish >> the content yet, but the current content should give you an idea of >> what we have decided to cover. In particular, the chapter about >> "Useful Commands" has not been worked on yet. Also, the links to >> docs.sun.com aren't working. >> >> I need to deliver this book for the Back To School Kit before August 8th, >> so please send me comments by COB on Wednesday 8/6. We will be >> developing this book further after the 8th for the 2008.11 release, >> so there will be more time for comments later. For now: >> >> 1) send any corrections to me or to the alias if discussion is needed >> 2) tell me about any procedures that we should add >> 3) please give me suggestions for a better book title >> >> Many thanks for your time and comments. >> >> -Kathy >> -- >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> indiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >> > >-- >(William) Brian Leonard >Technology Evangelist >408.404.6884 >http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard > > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
