[indiana-discuss] REVIEW System Admin. Guide for the Back to School Kit

[Cindy.Swearingen at Sun.COM]

Hi William,

Thanks for the comments...

For the ZFS comments:

1.
Good comment about pointing to Tim's blog instead of the script directly.

2. The user account that is created during the OpenSolaris
installation has root privileges. For example:
admin at opensolaris:~/Desktop$ roles
root

So, for a student installing the Back to School Kit its probably
best to create a personal user account for papers, etc.

For the general comment:

Please explain how pfexec is safer. :-)

Thanks,

Cindy

(William) Brian Leonard wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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 would also echo the sentiments of others to use pfexec instead of 
> becoming superuser. It's much safer.
> 
>> 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.
> 
>>                                                       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
> 
>> 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)
> 
>> 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"?
> 
> Regards,
> Brian
> 
> 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
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