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For both beginners and experienced UNIX users, provides clearly written discussions of commands, Shell programming, Open Look and X Windows user interfaces, the Korn and C Shells, and UNIX networking features like NFS and Ethernet. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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• Preface (p. xxxiii)
• Why This Book Is for You (p. 1)
• 1 Introduction (p. 3)
• The Lore and Controversy Surrounding the UNIX System (p. 6)
• The Philosophy Behind the UNIX System (p. 8)
• The Modern UNIX System -- Pro and Con (p. 9)
• UNIX System History (p. 10)
• The SVR4 Release (p. 15)
• Networking Support (p. 16)
• Unification (p. 16)
• New Development Environment (p. 16)
• Internationalization (p. 17)
• X Window System (p. 17)
• Commands (p. 17)
• Virtual File System (p. 18)
• Real-Time Processes (p. 18)
• Improved Configuration and Installation (p. 18)
• Enhanced Security (p. 18)
• Going Further (p. 19)
• Microcomputer Requirements (p. 19)
• Assembling a UNIX System (p. 20)
• A Note on BSD and XENIX Compatibility (p. 21)
• 2 Tutorial (p. 23)
• Logging In (p. 24)
• The X Window System Display (p. 28)
• Reading the News (p. 28)
• Listing Your Files (p. 30)
• Displaying a File (p. 32)
• Deleting a File (p. 33)
• Reading Your Mail (p. 34)
• Sending Mail (p. 36)
• Who's Logged In (p. 39)
• Changing Your Password (p. 40)
• Logging Out (p. 42)
• Going Further (p. 44)
• Controlling Output to the Terminal (p. 44)
• 3 Introduction to the Shell (p. 45)
• Commands in the UNIX System (p. 46)
• Command Structure (p. 46)
• Command-Line Expansion (p. 49)
• Environment Variables (p. 51)
• Quoting Command-Line Arguments (p. 54)
• PS1 (p. 56)
• Standard Input and Output (p. 57)
• The End-of-File Mark (p. 59)
• Appending Standard Output to a File (p. 60)
• Standard Error (p. 61)
• Pipes (p. 62)
• Filters (p. 63)
• Fields and Delimiters (p. 64)
• Return Values from Commands (p. 69)
• The Grave Operator (p. 70)
• Going Further (p. 72)
• Command Sequences (p. 72)
• Shell Redirection (p. 73)
• 4 The File System (p. 75)
• Files and Directories (p. 75)
• Rules for Naming Files (p. 78)
• Naming Directories (p. 79)
• The Working Directory (p. 80)
• Moving Around in the Directory Hierarchy (p. 81)
• Changing the Directory Hierarchy (p. 83)
• Your Home Directory (p. 84)
• File-Oriented Commands (p. 86)
• Symbolic Links (p. 89)
• Options for the Is Command (p. 91)
• File Permissions (p. 93)
• File Ownership (p. 93)
• Understanding File Permissions (p. 94)
• Changing File Ownership (p. 95)
• Changing Permissions (p. 96)
• Listing Directory Permissions (p. 97)
• Going Further (p. 98)
• The X Window System File Manager (p. 98)
• basename and dirname (p. 100)
• Device Files (p. 100)
• The mesg Command (p. 102)
• Other Devices (p. 103)
• More on Symbolic Links (p. 103)
• Browsing the File System (p. 105)
• A Note on File System Reorganization in SVR4 (p. 106)
• Conventions for Naming Files and Directories (p. 110)
• 5 Basic Editing with vi and emacs (p. 113)
• A Note on Learning to Use the Editors (p. 114)
• The vi Text Editor (p. 114)
• Setting Your Terminal Type (p. 115)
• Starting the vi Editor (p. 116)
• Modes in vi (p. 118)
• Switching Modes (p. 118)
• Ending your vi Session (p. 119)
• Writing Files (p. 119)
• Reading Files (p. 122)
• Changing Files (p. 122)
• Redrawing the Screen (p. 122)
• Escaping to the Shell (p. 123)
• Editing in vi (p. 123)
• Undoing a Change (p. 123)
• Entering Input Mode from Command Mode (p. 124)
• Input Mode (p. 124)
• Moving Around in the Buffer (p. 125)
• Searching for Text (p. 126)
• Changing Text (p. 127)
• Deleting Text (p. 127)
• Repeating a Change (p. 128)
• Cut and Paste Operations (p. 128)
• Cut and Paste Using Line Numbers (p. 129)
• The emacs Editor (p. 130)
• Fundamental Concepts of emacs (p. 130)
• Starting emacs (p. 131)
• Splitting the Screen (p. 134)
• Writing the File (p. 134)
• Exiting from emacs (p. 135)
• Getting Help (p. 135)
• Changing the Cursor Position (p. 135)
• Deleting Text (p. 136)
• Marks in emacs (p. 136)
• Cut and Paste in emacs (p. 137)
• Searching and Replacing Text Strings (p. 137)
• Escaping to the Shell (p. 138)
• Going Further (p. 139)
• A Note on Using the Editors with the X Window System (p. 139)
• Configuring vi Options (p. 140)
• Filtering Text from Inside vi (p. 141)
• Major Modes in emacs (p. 142)
• Minor Modes in emacs (p. 143)
• The emacs Customization File (p. 143)
• Macros in emacs (p. 144)
• Keyboard Macros (p. 144)
• 6 Regular Expressions and Advanced Editing (p. 147)
• Basic Concepts of Regular Expressions (p. 148)
• Matching Any Single Character (p. 148)
• Matching a Set (p. 148)
• Matching a Range (p. 149)
• Escaping the Special Meaning of Regular Expression Operators (p. 150)
• Special Symbols for the Beginning and End of a Line (p. 150)
• Building Complex Regular Expressions (p. 151)
• The Longest Matching String (p. 152)
• The grep Command (p. 152)
• The fgrep and egrep Commands (p. 154)
• Searching in vi Using Regular Expressions (p. 155)
• Substitutions in vi (p. 155)
• Using the Matched Regular Expression in a Substitution (p. 157)
• Substitutions on a Range of Lines (p. 157)
• More on Line Addressing (p. 158)
• Context Addressing with Regular Expressions (p. 159)
• The sed Stream Editor (p. 160)
• Complex sed Programs (p. 162)
• Basic Editing with ed (p. 163)
• Modes in ed (p. 164)
• Turning on Prompts and Help (p. 164)
• Reading in Another File (p. 165)
• Write and Quit (p. 166)
• Working with Lines (p. 166)
• Displaying the Current Line (p. 166)
• Changing the Current Line (p. 168)
• Input Mode (p. 168)
• Deleting Lines (p. 169)
• Undoing Mistakes (p. 169)
• Searching for Strings (p. 169)
• Substituting Sections of Text (p. 170)
• Moving and Copying Lines (p. 171)
• Shell Escapes -- The Bang Operator (p. 171)
• Going Further (p. 172)
• ed Scripts (p. 172)
• Regular Expression Searches in emacs (p. 173)
• 7 More Useful General-Purpose Commands (p. 175)
• The Environment Revisited (p. 176)
• Using the PATH Variable (p. 176)
• The banner Command (p. 179)
• Clearing the Screen (p. 179)
• The date Command (p. 180)
• The cal Command (p. 180)
• The calendar Command (p. 181)
• The more, tail, and head Programs (p. 182)
• The cmp and diff Commands (p. 184)
• The dircmp Command (p. 187)
• The sort and uniq Commands (p. 188)
• The cut and paste Commands (p. 192)
• The join Command (p. 194)
• Database Operations for Text Files (p. 195)
• Going Further (p. 198)
• The sleep Command (p. 199)
• The find Command (p. 200)
• The stty Command (p. 205)
• 8 Shell Programming and More (p. 209)
• Multiline Commands (p. 210)
• here Documents (p. 211)
• Storing Shell Commands in Files (p. 213)
• Commenting Shell Scripts (p. 215)
• The if Operator (p. 215)
• The test Command (p. 217)
• The exit Command (p. 222)
• The expr Command (p. 222)
• The for Operator (p. 224)
• The while Operator (p. 226)
• The case Operator (p. 227)
• The printf Command and Output from Shell Scripts (p. 228)
• The profile and /etc/profile (p. 230)
• A Typical profile (p. 231)
• The Operator (p. 235)
• Command-Line Arguments (p. 235)
• $#, $*, and Positional Parameters (p. 236)
• Errors and Error Messages in Using Shell Scripts (p. 238)
• Going Further (p. 239)
• shar -- An Instructive Shell Script (p. 240)
• The getopts Command (p. 243)
• The trap Command (p. 245)
• The wait Command (p. 246)
• Shell Layers and the shl Command (p. 247)
• Virtual Consoles (p. 249)
• Shell Functions (p. 250)
• Using The CDPATH Variable (p. 252)
• Command Sequences (p. 252)
• 9 Understanding UNIX System Documentation (p. 253)
• The UNIX User's Manual (p. 253)
• The Layout of the User's Manual (p. 254)
• Referring to the Manual Section of a Command (p. 257)
• A Typical Man Page (p. 257)
• Synopsis (p. 259)
• Description (p. 260)
• Other Parts of the Man Page (p. 261)
• The Permuted Index (p. 262)
• The On-line man Command (p. 264)
• On-line help Command (p. 266)
• Using Help from the Command Line (p. 270)
• Going Further (p. 271)
• The Help Directory Structure (p. 272)
• Changing the Help Database (p. 272)
• Other Sections of the Manual (p. 274)
• Command-line Generators (p. 275)
• 10 Computation and Number Processing (p. 277)
• A Note on Electronic Spreadsheets (p. 278)
• Shell Reprise (p. 278)
• The dc and bc Calculators (p. 278)
• The dc Command (p. 279)
• Variables in dc (p. 281)
• The bc Calculator (p. 283)
• bc Notation (p. 284)
• bc Statements and Operators (p. 287)
• bc Functions (p. 290)
• The awk Command (p. 292)
• Basic awk Concepts (p. 293)
• How awk Reads Input Lines (p. 294)
• awk Patterns and Actions (p. 294)
• Numeric Operations with awk (p. 298)
• Special Patterns for the Beginning and End of Processing (p. 300)
• awk Statements (p. 301)
• Formatting Output with awk (p. 304)
• Going Further (p. 307)
• The New awk Program (p. 307)
• 11 The Process (p. 311)
• Timesharing in the UNIX System (p. 312)
• A Note on Priority Classes (p. 313)
• Controlling Process Priority Within the Timesharing Class (p. 314)
• Background Processes (p. 315)
• Logging Off While Background Processes Are Running (p. 316)
• Parents and Children (p. 317)
• The ps Command (p. 318)
• Listing the Activity of Other Users (p. 320)
• System Processes (p. 321)
• Diagnosing Problems with Processes (p. 325)
• Killing a Process (p. 326)
• Signals (p. 327)
• Going Further (p. 328)
• Processes that Respawn (p. 328)
• Why the First ps Takes Longer (p. 330)
• Waiting and Defunct Processes (p. 330)
• Session Groups (p. 331)
• /proc (p. 332)
• Real-Time Processes (p. 333)
• 12 UNIX System Administration (p. 337)
• The Superuser (p. 338)
• The Superuser Environment (p. 339)
• The su Command (p. 339)
• The su Environment (p. 341)
• Switching to Another Login (p. 341)
• Creating News and the Message of the Day (p. 342)
• System Mail Sent to the Administrator (p. 343)
• Solving Unusual Problems (p. 343)
• System Administration User Agents (p. 344)
• Controlling the User Agent (p. 345)
• When in Doubt, Take the Default Values (p. 348)
• Handling Floppy Diskettes (p. 349)
• Formatting Floppy Disks (p. 349)
• Making a File System on a Formatted Diskette (p. 350)
• Mounting a Diskette (p. 351)
• Copying a Floppy Disk (p. 352)
• Disk Backup and Restore (p. 352)
• Restoring Files from Backup (p. 354)
• Displaying Hard Disk Usage (p. 354)
• Setting the Date and Time (p. 355)
• Shutting Down the Machine (p. 355)
• Adding and Removing User Login Ids (p. 356)
• Installing Software Packages (p. 358)
• Setting the Machine Name (p. 358)
• Mail Setup (p. 359)
• Scheduling Automatic Tasks (p. 361)
• Printer Management (p. 361)
• Installing a Printer (p. 362)
• Managing an Existing Printer (p. 363)
• Network Services (p. 364)
• Port Management (p. 364)
• Quick Terminal Setup (p. 365)
• Port Monitor Management (p. 365)
• Port Service Management (p. 366)
• Going Further (p. 367)
• The uname Command (p. 368)
• More on Terminal Modes (p. 369)
• Starting a Port Monitor (p. 370)
• Starting a Service Within a Port Monitor (p. 370)
• Installing New Terminal Descriptions (p. 372)
• Using Color Monitors (p. 373)
• 13 Printing (p. 375)
• Using the lp Command (p. 376)
• Canceling a Job (p. 378)
• Printing on Forms (p. 378)
• Content-Types and Print Filters (p. 379)
• Additional Print Options and Defaults (p. 380)
• Determining Printer Status (p. 381)
• Command-Line Options for lpstat (p. 381)
• lpsched, the lp Demon (p. 383)
• Starting and Stopping the Scheduler (p. 384)
• Connecting a Printer (p. 384)
• Installing a Printer into the lp System (p. 386)
• Testing Your Printer Configuration (p. 387)
• Printer Interface Models (p. 388)
• Configuring the lp Software (p. 388)
• The Printer Type (p. 389)
• Specifying the Printer Content-Type (p. 390)
• Additional Print Options and Defaults (p. 390)
• The Default Destination (p. 391)
• Checking the Installation (p. 392)
• Removing a Printer (p. 392)
• Accepting Print Requests (p. 392)
• Enabling the Printer (p. 393)
• Moving Jobs from One Printer to Another (p. 395)
• Going Further (p. 396)
• Printer Classes (p. 396)
• Using Forms (p. 398)
• Using Character Sets and Printwheels (p. 401)
• Using Filters (p. 402)
• Server Machines (p. 404)
• Remote Access to Printing via LAN (p. 405)
• Remote Access to Printing via uucp (p. 406)
• The lp Directory Structure (p. 407)
• Printer Drivers (p. 409)
• 14 Basic Communications (p. 411)
• The news Command (p. 412)
• The Message of the Day (p. 414)
• The write Command (p. 414)
• Using write Interactively (p. 416)
• The wall Command (p. 417)
• The mail Command Revisited (p. 418)
• A Note on Versions of the Mail Service (p. 418)
• Mail Concepts (p. 419)
• Sending Mail (p. 419)
• Sending Binary Files in Mail (p. 420)
• Reading Your Mail (p. 420)
• mail Message Structure (p. 422)
• Creating Messages with Headers (p. 422)
• Displaying a Summary of Mailbox Contents (p. 423)
• Replying to a Mail Message (p. 424)
• Addressing Mail to Other Users (p. 425)
• Domain Addressing (p. 426)
• Forwarding Mail (p. 427)
• Automatically Answering Incoming Mail (p. 429)
• The rmail Command (p. 430)
• Terminal Emulation with the cu Command (p. 430)
• Disconnecting from a cu Session (p. 432)
• cu Command-Line Options (p. 433)
• Going Further (p. 434)
• cu Internal Commands (p. 434)
• ASCII File Transfer with cu (p. 435)
• Transferring Binary Files with cu (p. 437)
• Other Internal cu Commands (p. 438)
• The mailx Command (p. 438)
• The ct Command (p. 440)
• 15 The uucp Data Communications Subsystem (p. 441)
• The uuto Command (p. 442)
• The uupick Command (p. 443)
• A Note on uucp Security (p. 444)
• The uucp Command (p. 445)
• Logical Path Names (p. 446)
• Command-Line Options for the uucp Command (p. 447)
• The uux Command (p. 448)
• The uustat Command (p. 450)
• Reporting on Specific Machines (p. 451)
• Deleting a Queued Job (p. 452)
• Administration of the uucp Subsystem (p. 452)
• A Note on Versions of uucp (p. 453)
• uucp Directory Structure (p. 453)
• uucp Subsystem Architecture (p. 456)
• Specifying a Connection Method to a Remote System (p. 457)
• The Systems Files (p. 459)
• The Devices File (p. 460)
• The Dialers File (p. 462)
• Going Further (p. 463)
• Debugging uucp Connections (p. 463)
• The uulog Command (p. 468)
• The uucp Administrative Demons (p. 469)
• Polling Other Machines (p. 470)
• Changing the Data Transfer Protocol (p. 471)
• Grades of Service (p. 471)
• The Devconfig File (p. 472)
• Using uucp on TCP/IP Networks (p. 472)
• rje and IBM 3270 Emulation (p. 474)
• 16 The Korn and C Shells (p. 475)
• Selecting an Enhanced Shell (p. 477)
• The Korn Shell (p. 477)
• Starting the Korn Shell (p. 478)
• Command History in ksh (p. 480)
• ksh Command Editing with the vi Mode (p. 481)
• ksh Command Editing with the emacs Mode (p. 483)
• Aliases in ksh (p. 484)
• The whence Command (p. 487)
• The fc Command (p. 487)
• Tilde Substitution (p. 489)
• Changing Directories under ksh (p. 489)
• The set Command (p. 490)
• ksh Enhancements for Shell Programming (p. 492)
• Arithmetic Operators (p. 493)
• Arrays (p. 494)
• Improved Prompting, Input and Output (p. 494)
• Environment Variable Processing Under ksh (p. 495)
• The C Shell (p. 496)
• Starting the C Shell (p. 496)
• The csh Command Line (p. 497)
• Setting csh Variables (p. 498)
• Command History and Editing in csh (p. 499)
• Hashing (p. 501)
• Aliases (p. 502)
• I/O Redirection with csh (p. 502)
• Shell Programming with csh (p. 503)
• Identifying a Command with csh (p. 506)
• Selecting a Shell to Execute a Shell Script (p. 506)
• Going Further (p. 507)
• Selecting a Login Shell (p. 508)
• Filename Completion (p. 509)
• More on the ksh ENV File (p. 510)
• Setting the Current Directory in your PS1 (p. 511)
• Job Control (p. 511)
• Coprocesses under ksh (p. 513)
• 17 Word Processing (p. 515)
• The spell Command (p. 516)
• The troff Document Preparation Package (p. 518)
• The troff Command Line (p. 519)
• The troff Command Language (p. 520)
• Basic troff Concepts (p. 520)
• troff Units (p. 521)
• Page Layout (p. 521)
• Font and Character Control (p. 528)
• Fill Control (p. 529)
• troff Registers (p. 532)
• Macro Packages for troff (p. 535)
• The mm Macros (p. 536)
• Basic Commands (p. 536)
• Predefined mm Memo Formats (p. 538)
• Abstract and "Copy to" Notation (p. 544)
• Headings (p. 544)
• Displays (p. 546)
• Lists (p. 547)
• Footnotes, References, and Table of Contents (p. 548)
• Page Headers and Footers (p. 549)
• The man Macros (p. 550)
• Going Further (p. 550)
• The tbl Command (p. 550)
• Formatting Mathematical Equations and Graphics (p. 556)
• troff Directory Structure (p. 557)
• Conditionals and Macros in troff (p. 557)
• Logos in mm (p. 559)
• The Writer's Workbench (p. 559)
• The spell History File (p. 560)
• Building a New spell Database (p. 561)
• 18 Media (p. 563)
• Disk Blocks and Inodes (p. 564)
• File Systems (p. 565)
• Hard Disk Management (p. 565)
• Disk Free Space--The df Command (p. 565)
• Disk Space Used--The du Command (p. 567)
• Size of Files and the ulimit (p. 568)
• Never Fill the Hard Disk (p. 569)
• File Compression (p. 570)
• File System Types (p. 572)
• Floppy Disk Management (p. 573)
• Device Files for Disks (p. 574)
• Formatting Floppy Disks (p. 579)
• Making a File System on the Disk (p. 580)
• Specifying File System Size (p. 580)
• Mounting a Floppy Disk (p. 581)
• Using the mount Command (p. 583)
• Unmounting a Diskette (p. 584)
• Reporting on Mounted Media (p. 585)
• Copying Floppy Disks (p. 586)
• Manually Copying a Mounted Disk with cp (p. 586)
• The dd Command (p. 586)
• The dd Command Line (p. 587)
• Raw Device Access--The cpio Command (p. 589)
• Using Media for cpio Operations (p. 590)
• Creating cpio Archives (p. 590)
• cpio Compatibility (p. 591)
• Using cpio (p. 592)
• Reading a cpio Archive (p. 593)
• cpio Command-Line Options for Input (p. 594)
• Displaying a Table of Contents for an Archive (p. 595)
• Selecting a Subset of Archived Files (p. 596)
• Archiving to a Floppy Disk or Tape (p. 597)
• Backing Up and Restoring Your Files (p. 598)
• Backups Using cpio (p. 599)
• Backups Using backup and restore (p. 600)
• Backups Using ufsdump (p. 600)
• A Note on Backups (p. 600)
• Care of Floppy Disks (p. 601)
• Recovering Damaged Archives (p. 602)
• Going Further (p. 602)
• Moving a Directory Hierarchy as a Unit (p. 603)
• Creating Unusual File Systems (p. 603)
• Mounting a Second Hard Disk (p. 604)
• Permanently Mounting a File System (p. 605)
• File System Checking (p. 606)
• Magnetic Tape (p. 607)
• The tapecntl Command (p. 609)
• The tar Command (p. 610)
• Mounting Your Hard Disk from a Bootable Floppy (p. 612)
• Quotas (p. 613)
• 19 Using MS-DOS with the UNIX System (p. 615)
• Using MS-DOS Disks (p. 616)
• Mounting MS-DOS Disks (p. 619)
• Converting Files (p. 620)
• A Note on Merge Packages (p. 621)
• Starting and Stopping MS-DOS (p. 622)
• The MS-DOS Startup Files (p. 623)
• Ending the MS-DOS Session (p. 624)
• Background Execution of MS-DOS (p. 624)
• Screen Switching (p. 625)
• Invoking MS-DOS Applications Directly from the Shell (p. 626)
• Pipelines and Shell Scripts (p. 627)
• MS-DOS Command Extensions (p. 628)
• PATH and Other Environment Variables (p. 629)
• Executing UNIX System Programs from the MS-DOS Session (p. 630)
• Job Control (p. 631)
• Disk Usage Under the Merge Session (p. 633)
• File and Directory Naming (p. 634)
• The udir Command (p. 636)
• A Note on Multiple Access to Files (p. 636)
• File Conversions (p. 637)
• MS-DOS Directories (p. 638)
• MS-DOS Memory Allocation (p. 639)
• Other Command-Line Options for the dos Command (p. 640)
• Device Sharing Between the MS-DOS and UNIX Systems (p. 641)
• Floppy Disk Management (p. 641)
• Printing Under MS-DOS (p. 642)
• Using Communication Ports (p. 643)
• Going Further (p. 643)
• Unusable MS-DOS Commands (p. 644)
• Running Merge from a Terminal (p. 644)
• Running Merge Under the X Window System (p. 645)
• Microsoft Windows Under Merge (p. 646)
• Communications and Interrupts (p. 646)
• Standalone MS-DOS on a UNIX Machine (p. 647)
• The E Drive (p. 648)
• The D Drive (p. 648)
• The J Drive (p. 649)
• Virtual Disk Files (p. 649)
• Booting the MS-DOS Session from a Floppy Disk (p. 651)
• Using MS-DOS as a Login Shell (p. 652)
• The dosopt Command (p. 652)
• Installing the Merge Feature (p. 653)
• The MS-DOS Image (p. 653)
• 20 Timing and Scheduling (p. 655)
• A Note on Timesharing Vs. Real-Time Performance (p. 656)
• The UNIX System Is Designed to Operate All the Time (p. 656)
• The date Command Revisited (p. 657)
• Setting the System Date (p. 658)
• The Time Zone and Daylight-Saving Time (p. 659)
• File Times (p. 659)
• The touch Command (p. 660)
• The at and batch Commands (p. 661)
• Specifying a Date for the at Command (p. 662)
• Displaying the at Job Queue (p. 664)
• The batch Command (p. 665)
• Security Considerations with at and batch (p. 666)
• The cron Facility (p. 668)
• crontab File Format (p. 669)
• The crontab Command (p. 672)
• cron Permissions and Security (p. 673)
• Going Further (p. 674)
• The cron Log File (p. 674)
• Measuring Command Execution Time (p. 675)
• The sync Operation (p. 677)
• System Usage Accounting for Individual Users (p. 677)
• Process Accounting with the sar Package (p. 678)
• 21 Boot and Shutdown (p. 681)
• The Ongoing System Environment (p. 681)
• Shutting Down the Machine (p. 682)
• The shutdown Command (p. 682)
• The Boot Sequence (p. 685)
• init States (p. 688)
• Changing the init State (p. 689)
• The /etc/inittab File (p. 690)
• init Actions (p. 692)
• Boot-Time Processing (p. 692)
• rc Scripts (p. 693)
• The Service Access Facility (p. 695)
• Making Changes to the inittab File (p. 696)
• Going Further (p. 696)
• A Shorter Shutdown Procedure for SVR4 (p. 697)
• The fsck Command (p. 698)
• 22 Security (p. 701)
• A Security Policy (p. 702)
• Protecting Your Data from Other Users (p. 703)
• Default Permissions for File Creation (p. 704)
• File Encryption (p. 705)
• Login Ids and Passwords (p. 707)
• Login History (p. 708)
• The Superuser (p. 709)
• The Password File (p. 709)
• A Typical/etc/passwd File (p. 711)
• Adding and Deleting Users (p. 713)
• Password Aging (p. 714)
• Deleting a User (p. 716)
• Adding Groups (p. 717)
• The Restricted Shell (p. 718)
• Protection of the UNIX System and Files (p. 720)
• Physical Security (p. 721)
• Local Area Networks (p. 722)
• uucp Security (p. 722)
• The uucp Permissions File (p. 723)
• The Default Permissions (p. 724)
• Customizing the Permissions File (p. 724)
• Controlling Incoming Calls with the LOGNAME Line (p. 725)
• Controlling Outgoing Calls with the MACHINE Lines (p. 726)
• The uucheck Command (p. 727)
• Unknown Remote Machines and Polling (p. 727)
• Going Further (p. 729)
• System Attacks (p. 729)
• Defender Behavior (p. 730)
• Detecting an Attack (p. 731)
• Trojan Horses, Viruses, and Worms (p. 732)
• System V/MLS (p. 732)
• 23 The X Window System (p. 735)
• Basic X Concepts (p. 736)
• The X Server (p. 737)
• Client Applications (p. 737)
• Window Managers (p. 737)
• Starting X (p. 739)
• The DISPLAY Environment Variable (p. 740)
• Managing Windows (p. 741)
• Input Focus (p. 742)
• Controlling Window Position (p. 742)
• Selecting Multiple Windows (p. 743)
• Resizing a Window (p. 745)
• The Workspace Menu (p. 745)
• Scrollbars (p. 747)
• The Help System (p. 748)
• The File Manager (p. 748)
• Drag-and-Drop Operations (p. 750)
• Name Matching (p. 750)
• The xterm Client (p. 751)
• xterm Menus (p. 752)
• Cut and Paste with xterm (p. 752)
• xterm Command-Line Options (p. 754)
• Generic X Command-Line Arguments (p. 755)
• Window Geometry (p. 755)
• Fonts (p. 756)
• Colors (p. 758)
• Titles and Names (p. 759)
• Icons and Help (p. 759)
• X Clients (p. 759)
• The xhost Client (p. 761)
• The xset and xsetroot Clients (p. 763)
• The xcalc Client (p. 764)
• xbiff and Reading Mail (p. 764)
• Going Further (p. 764)
• The xinit Command Line (p. 765)
• The xinit Startup Script (p. 765)
• Ending the X Session (p. 766)
• The Resource Database (p. 768)
• The xrdb Command (p. 770)
• The Keyboard Map and the xmodmap Command (p. 771)
• Programming the olwm Workspace Menu (p. 773)
• Using X with Virtual Consoles and DOS (p. 774)
• Authorizing Users for X (p. 774)
• Session Management and X Terminals (p. 776)
• 24 Networking (p. 777)
• Access to Remote Machines (p. 778)
• The rlogin Command (p. 779)
• The rcp Command (p. 780)
• The rsh Command (p. 780)
• Network Information Commands (p. 782)
• The rusers Command (p. 782)
• The finger Command (p. 783)
• The ping Command (p. 784)
• Access to Remote Files (p. 785)
• Determining Mountable Resources (p. 786)
• Mounting Resources from Remote Machines (p. 787)
• Mounting Several Resources (p. 788)
• Listing Mounted Resources (p. 788)
• Unmounting Remote Resources (p. 788)
• Automatic Mounts (p. 789)
• A Note on Clients, Servers, and init States (p. 789)
• Sharing Resources with Other Machines (p. 791)
• Listing Shared Resources (p. 792)
• Sharing Several Resources (p. 792)
• Unsharing Resources (p. 793)
• Reporting on Shared Resources in Use (p. 793)
• A Note on Security Considerations for Sharing (p. 794)
• Going Further (p. 794)
• The rdate Command (p. 795)
• The telnet Command (p. 795)
• Networking Demons (p. 797)
• Setting Up a New Machine on a Net (p. 797)
• Setting Up NFS (p. 797)
• Setting Up a Machine on RFS (p. 800)
• More RFS Issues (p. 804)
• Using Both NFS and RFS on a Machine (p. 805)
• SVR3 RFS Commands under SVR4 (p. 805)
• Configuring mail for a Network (p. 808)
• A Note on Commercial Networked Applications (p. 810)
• Device Sharing (p. 810)
• More Networking Concepts (p. 811)
• Yellow Pages (p. 812)
• 25 System Configuration (p. 815)
• Hardware and the UNIX System (p. 815)
• The 80386 and Other Machines (p. 816)
• Memory (RAM) Considerations (p. 817)
• Disk Considerations (p. 817)
• The Console and Monitor (p. 819)
• Ports and Terminals (p. 820)
• SVR4 Licensing Restrictions (p. 821)
• Printers (p. 821)
• Networking (p. 822)
• Magnetic Tape (p. 822)
• A Minimal Configuration (p. 823)
• Setting Up the System (p. 823)
• Testing the Initial Configuration (p. 824)
• Hard Disk Partitions (p. 827)
• Swap and Dump Space (p. 828)
• File Systems (p. 829)
• File System Types (p. 830)
• A Note on Software Packaging (p. 830)
• Loading the System Software (p. 831)
• Full or Overlay Installation (p. 832)
• Hardware Selection (p. 832)
• Selecting Software Packages (p. 832)
• fdisk Installation Procedure (p. 833)
• Prompted Installation Procedure (p. 837)
• File System Partitioning (p. 840)
• Loading the Foundation Set (p. 842)
• The Setup Procedures (p. 842)
• Installing Additional Software Packages (p. 844)
• Loading Software from the Shell (p. 845)
• Using the Installation Commands (p. 845)
• Terminal Setup (p. 846)
• Going Further (p. 847)
• PANIC Messages (p. 847)
• Booting from a Floppy Disk (p. 848)
• Upgrading from Older Releases to SVR4 (p. 849)
• System Defaults (p. 851)
• Tunable Parameters (p. 852)
• 26 Going Further (p. 855)
• Games and Toys (p. 856)
• The Worldwide User Community (p. 857)
• Reading the News (p. 859)
• Replying to an Article by Mail (p. 864)
• Introduction to xrn (p. 865)
• Creating an Article (p. 865)
• A Note on News Etiquette (p. 867)
• The Internet and the ftp Command (p. 868)
• ftp Addressing and Login (p. 868)
• ftp Command Mode (p. 870)
• File Transfer with ftp (p. 871)
• Software Development (p. 873)
• The Source Code Control System (p. 875)
• The Expanding Influence of the UNIX System (p. 878)
• Bibliography (p. 879)
• A Few Last Words (p. 881)
• Index (p. 883)

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