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NAME
refsarm - general introduction to the System Administrator's Refer-
ence Manual
DESCRIPTION
Overview
The System Administrator's Reference Manual (Reliant UNIX 5.44)
describes the commands, file formats, and system maintenance pro-
cedures used by those who administer Reliant UNIX operating systems
running on RM400 (or RM200 and RM300) and RM600 systems.
Further information on system administration can be found in the fol-
lowing manuals:
- The System Administrator's Guide provides procedures for and expla-
nations of administrative tasks.
- The User's Guide presents an overview of the Reliant UNIX operating
system and contains tutorials on how to use text editors, automate
repetitive jobs, and send information to other users.
- The Commands. User's Reference Manual describes the general Reliant
UNIX system user commands.
- The Programmer's Reference Manual describes the commands, system
calls, subroutines, libraries, file formats, and miscellaneous
facilities used by programmers.
- The Networking Reference Manual describes the commands, system
calls, subroutines, libraries, file formats, and miscellaneous
facilities required for users of networked systems.
Naming conventions
Throughout the manual, extensions appearing in brackets after a com-
mand name or the name of a special file are cross-references to the
relevant section in this (or in another) manual. A description with
the extension (1M), (7), or (8) means, for example, that this command
or file is located in the corresponding section of this manual (or in
the Networking Reference Manual).
A description followed by (4) or (5) is located either in section 4 or
5 of this manual or in the Programmer's Reference Manual (or in the
Networking Reference Manual).
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A description followed by (1) is located either in the corresponding
section of the
Commands. User's Reference Manual,
in the
Programmer's Reference Manual,
or in the
Networking Reference Manual.
refurm(1), refprm(1), and refnet(1) provide an overview of which
commands are found in which manuals.
A description followed by (2) or (3?) is located in the corresponding
section of the Programmer's Reference Manual.
A description followed by (3N) is located in the corresponding section
of the Networking Reference Manual.
Note for online users:
With the man command, you can call up a manual page using its exten-
sion. This is useful if a manual page is available under the same name
in several sections and can only be distinguished by means of the
extension, for instance acct(1M) and acct(4). If you call up the
manual page using "man acct", the description for acct(1M) is
displayed first, followed by that for acct(4). With the "man 4 acct"
call on the other hand, only the description for acct(4) is displayed.
The procedure is similar for manual pages for which there are dif-
ferent "versions", for instance AT&T and BSD or VxFS and UFS. Here it
is also possible to call up the description you require, e.g. for the
"labelit" command, for which there are three variants: labelit(1M)
(generic), labelit(1M-ufs) (UFS File System) and labelit(1M-vxfs)
(Veritas File System). If you are only interested in one of these
three descriptions, e.g. the one for the Veritas File System, you must
call up the manual page as follows: "man 1M-vxfs labelit".
Structure
The System Administrator's Reference Manual is divided into five sec-
tions:
(1M) Commands
(4) File Formats
(5) Miscellaneous Facilities
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(7) Special Files
(8) System Maintenance Procedures
Section 1M, "Commands", contains commands and programs that are used
in administering an Reliant UNIX system.
Section 4, "File Formats", documents the structure of particular types
of files. For example, the format of the file /etc/passwd is described
under passwd(4) and the contents of /etc/profile are explained under
profile(4).
Section 5, "Miscellaneous Facilities", describes miscellaneous facili-
ties, such as macro packages, conversion tables, etc.
Section 7, "Special Files", discusses the characteristics of system
files, which refer to the input/output devices for example.
Section 8, "System Maintenance Procedures", discusses crash recovery,
firmware programs, loading procedures, etc.
Each section begins with a description with the name introsarmn.
Entries following the intro page are arranged alphabetically and may
consist of several pages. Some entries describe several routines, com-
mands etc. In such cases, the entry appears only once and is arranged
in alphabetical order under its "primary name". An example of such an
entry is mount(1M), which also describes the umount command. The
"secondary commands" are always listed and described under the name of
the associated primary command.
For online users, this means that the calls "man mount" and "man
umount" display the same manual page, which describes both commands.
All manual pages have a common format for both the contents (chapter
structure) and the synopsis for using the command. Further information
on these conventions can be found under introsarm1(1M) and
introurm(1). General information on the various intro manual pages
can be found under intro(1). manprint(1) describes how to print manual
pages displayed on the screen using the "man" command.
NOTES
The apropos(1) [alternative call "man -k", both described under
man(1)] command is useful if you have a keyword, but are not sure what
the exact name of the relevant manual page is. For example, if you
want to find out the names of the manual pages covering the topic
"Mirror disks", you enter:
apropos mirror
The following manual pages are then offered (no distinction is made
between uppercase and lowercase letters):
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dkmirror (8) - Mirror Disk administrative utility
mirror (7) - introduction to mirrored virtual disks
mroot (7) - introduction to Mirror Root, mirroring the root partition
SEE ALSO
intro(1), introurm(1), man(1), man-news(1), manprint(1), refnet(1),
refprm(1), refurm(1), introsarm1(1M), introsarm4(4),
introsarm5(5), introsarm7(7), introsarm8(8).
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