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539698 FM.qxd 4/23/03 10:15 AM Page iii Solaris 9 ™ FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Dave Taylor 539698 FM.qxd 4/23/03 10:15 AM Page ii 539698 FM.qxd 4/23/03 10:15 AM Page i Solaris 9 ™ FOR DUMmIES ‰ 539698 FM.qxd 4/23/03 10:15 AM Page ii 539698 FM.qxd 4/23/03 10:15 AM Page iii Solaris 9 ™ FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Dave Taylor 539698 FM.qxd 4/23/03 10:15 AM Page iv Solaris™9 For Dummies® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 909 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 www.wiley.com Copyright©2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permit- ted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8700. 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He’s also written a dozen books on technology, notably Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours, Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages, and Unix Shell Hacks. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer science, a master’s degree in educational computing, and an MBA, and currently splits his time between writing, teaching, management consulting work, and out- door activities. He lives in Colorado with his wife, kids, two dogs, and a cat, just a few miles from the Sun Microsystems Colorado campus. His e-mail address is [email protected] and his Web site is at www. intuitive.com/. 539698 FM.qxd 4/23/03 10:15 AM Page vi 539698 FM.qxd 4/23/03 10:15 AM Page vii Dedication To the pleasure of a productive day, the calm of a loving family, and the secu- rity of a world at peace. Author’s Acknowledgments I’d like to first acknowledge the gracious help of the folks at Sun Microsystems for their time spent reviewing this book as we’ve proceeded, their generosity in underwriting my attendance at some Solaris training, and the long-term loan of a Sun Blade100 system to double-check every example and screen image against the latest release on a solid SPARC box. In addition, Tadpole Technology was generous in loaning out a cool SPARCbook 6500 SPARC-based laptop ,and Tenon Software was kind in sending an X Window Server for Mac OS X to allow session interoperability in my network. There were also a number of people involved in this writing project, notably including the lovely team at Wiley: Terri Varveris, Pat O’Brien, tech reviewer extraordinaire Terry Cummings, and Andy Cummings, a long time friend of mine in the publishing biz. In addition, Dave Miles at Tadpole had some insights into Solaris strategies; Steve Christensen, Webmaster of sunfree- ware.com had great ideas about online resources; and Martin Brown and John Meister shared their Solaris expertise. Dee-Ann, as usual, let me vent when needed, and I can’t say enough about the great support of my wife, chil- dren, dogs, and cat!
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