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policy agreements 779–785

privileges 39–43

resources 814–817

salaries 793

scope of service 795–796

setting expectations 797

sharing staff 786

skill tests 798

suggested toolbox 753

survey results 793–795

trouble reporting 796

System III 2

system processes 14–15

System V 2

Systems file 314, 321

T

talkd 830

tape blocking factor 185

tape drives

ADR 172, 175

AIT 173, 175

DAT (4mm) 172, 175

device files 67, 177

device names 253

DLT 172–173, 175

Exabyte (8mm) 171–172, 175

jukeboxes 173–174

Mammoth 173, 175

summary table 175

Travan 172, 175

tapes

see also tape drives

care and feeding 169–170

checking 168–169

copying 186

labeling 165

life cycle 169

positioning 186–187

summary table 175

tapetype 193

tar 184–185

T-Berd line analyzer 385

Tcl (Tool Command Language) 519

TCP 265–266, 270

connection states 632–633

layers 265

vs. UDP for NFS 489

TCP wrappers 320, 666, 808

tcp.log file 208

tcpd 666, 808

tcpdump 638–639, 808

tcsh 81, 88, 808

TCT tool kit 669

telinit 36, 108, 823

telnet 672

telnetd 832

temperature 749

TERM environment variable 110, 112

TERM signal 36, 50–51, 823

TERMCAP environment variable 110

termcap file 106, 109–110, 514

terminal driver see serial driver

terminals 104–110

capability databases 109–110

config files by vendor 105

configuring at login 112

device files 67

secure 660

setting options 111–112

Solaris 109

special characters 110–112

unwedging 112

terminators (SCSI) 122–123

terminfo file 106, 109–110

Terry, Douglas 394

TFTP protocol 289

tftpd 661, 835

The Coroner’s Toolkit 669

third-party software 808–809

Thomas, Eric 560

threads 46

TIA/EIA-568A 376

time 833–834

time stamps 212

time to live 630

timed 834

tin 88

tip 104, 114

TLS security 608, 613

/tmp directory 64, 161

tmpfs 765

toner cartridges 742

tools (hardware) 753

top 57, 759

Torvalds, Linus 3

traceroute 628–631, 808

transport agents 537, 539

Travan tapes 172, 175

tripwire 668–669, 787, 809

trojan horses 662–663

trouble reporting 554, 796

troubleshooting

gated 353–355

networks 385, 626–636

runaway processes 57–59

SCSI 123–124

sendmail.cf file 615–617

serial line 115–116

sluggish system 766–768

Solaris kernel 229

syslog 219–220

wedged terminal 112

your job 10

troubmh 796

tset 112

TSTP signal 50, 52

ttyadm 109

ttydefs file 109

ttymon 109

ttys file 106

ttytab file 106

ttytype file 106

typographic conventions 4–5

U

UDP 265, 267, 271

vs. TCP for NFS 489

ufsdump 143, 178–179

ufsrestore 143

UIDs 38, 46, 72, 79

real vs. effective 38

recycling 79

site-wide management 490, 780

standard 44

Ultra SCSI see SCSI

umask 75, 88

umount 62–63, 135, 502

uname 254

UniForum 815

uninterruptible power supplies 751

UNIX domain sockets 68

UNIX Systems Laboratories 818

unlink 68

unreachable networks 302, 631

unsubscribing from a mailing list 545, 559

update 828

upgrades 184, 805–809

UPSs (power supplies) 786

URLs 686

us domain 398

USB (Universal Serial Bus) 117, 119

use_cw_file 578

Usenet 698–700

BS factor 754

description 698

liability issues 791

news feeds 698

posting through email 576

server software 699

USENIX association 793, 814

user agents 537–539

user policy agreements 782–783

useradd /userdel 91–92

usermod 83, 91–92

usernames see logins

USG (UNIX Support Group) 2

USL (Unix System Laboratories) 2

/usr filesystem 64

USR1 signal 311

/etc/utmp file 208, 657, 830

UTP cables 375–377, 386

/etc/uucp directory 314

uugetty 115

V

V.90 modem standard 113

van den Berg, Stephen R. 560

/var filesystem 64

vendors

bashing 811

logos 5

recommended 390–391

third-party 803

Venema, Wietse 537, 618, 665–666, 669

Veritas 132, 143, 146, 202

VERSIONID macro 574

vfstab file 62, 133–136, 142, 501, 504

vgcreate 145

vgdisplay 145–146

vgextend 145

vhand 827

vi 2, 88

Viega, John 559

vipw 86

Virtual Adrian 765

virtual memory 45, 131, 136, 761