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While we've tried to present useful and accurate procedures, we can't guarantee that there are no mistakes. We therefore have to say that you use these procedures at you own risk. If you do spot any errors, please let us know, email us at admin@introcomp.co.uk .

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Master Index

HP-UX

• Hardware related
  • Autoraid
  • Disk device names
  • Finding Information about your hardware
  • Hardware Paths
  • Instance Numbers
  • Reinstalling device files
• Ignite/UX
  • Ignite/UX Information
• ITO
  • ITO - Creating Templates
• Kernel
  • Building the Kernel 9.x
  • Building the Kernel 10.x
  • Building the Kernel 11.x
  • Kernel Parameters
  • Memeory Management
• Logical Volume Manager
  • Changing the dump area
  • Disk striping with LVM
  • Creating LVM Filesystem
  • Dealing with LVM Problems
  • Mirroring disks with LVM
  • Mirroring the Root Volume
  • Moving LVM disks
  • Reszing Filesystems
  • Setting up swap under LVM
• Miscellaneous
  • Copying filesystems
  • fbackup return codes
  • HP boot up
  • Online JFS
  • Single User mode
  • UNIX95 and the ps command
  • vx_inactive threads
  • Wiping a Disk
• Networking
  • Assigning two IP addresses to one card
  • NFS mounts
  • Mounting a remote CD
  • X25 under HP-UX
• Omniback
  • Omniback Procedures
  • Recovering Omniback
  • Using Omniback commands
• Performance
  • Perfview Basics
• SD/UX
  • Fixing a corrupt SD/UX INDEX
  • SD/UX Patch Manager
  • Problems with swinstall hanging
  • swpackage
• Security
  • Restricting root login
• Service Guard
  • Adding a logical volume to a Service Guard cluster
  • An outline for setting up Service Guard
  • Files used by Service Guard
  • Service Guard Commands
• Troubleshooting
  • Booting into maintenance mode
  • Disk problems
  • Extracting Info from Core Dumps
  • Ghost users

Solaris

• Building systems
  • Jumpstart
  • Managing Software (pkgadd etc)
  • Webstart
• Harware relatred
  • SCSI settings
• Kernel
  • Rebuilding the kernel
• Disks
  • Disksuite
  • Formatting disks
  • Volume Manager Problems
• Miscellaneous
  • Open Boot
  • Getting system information
  • Solaris Terminal Handling
  • terminfo
• Networking
  • Adding a NIC
  • Network and System files
• Security
  • ACLs
• Troubleshooting
  • Detecting Memory Leaks
  • Patch Administration
  • Root problems

Linux

• Adding a Driver to the Kernel Source
• Adding Swap Space
• Changing your Boot Diskette Image
• Configuring a LAN card
• Configuring PPP
• Configuring a ZIP Drive
• Including a Binary Module
• Linux on a laptop
• Linux Recovery
• Rebuilding the kernel

Other Unix Types

• AIX
  • RS6000 Diagnostics
  • AIX: Controlling Boot Devices
  • AIX: Cloning a server
  • AIX: Logical Volume Manager
  • AIX: mksysb
  • AIX: Patches and Additional Software
  • AIX: Controlling Swap Space
• Digital Unix
  • DEC: AdvFS
  • DEC: cdrom boot
  • DEC: Disks and Logical Storage Manager
  • DEC: Dynamic modules
  • DEC: Patching
  • DEC: Storage Works
• dg/ux
  • dg/ux
• Irix
  • irix
• NCR Unix
  • NCR Unix

General Unix

• X11
• Mail overview
• Netbackup
• Netscape Fastrack
• NIS+ Commands
• Unix Printing
• Reading tape labels

Unix Scripts

• Awk and sed scripts
• Concatenating variables
• Using STDIN with csh
• Working out dates
• Using eval
• Interactive scripts
• .kshrc
• let and typeset
• Maximum string length
• Regular expressions summary
• Reading response from the console
• Restrict number of logons for a user
• Sys Admin example scripts
• tee
• variables

Unix Networking

• FDDI
• NIS
• automount
• The connection process
• denying access
• DNS Overview
• Domain name registration
• HTTP and SMTP troubleshooting
• the ISO 7 layer model
• Modem basics
• news server maintenace
• NFS Security
• nslookup
• Reverse DNS
• samba
• Secondary DNS
• subnetting

Databases

• Ingres
• Oracle
• Sybase