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Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • July 1997

UNIX Commands

This document may not include specific software commands or procedures. Instead,
it may name software tasks and refer you to operating system documentation or the
handbook that was shipped with your new hardware.

The type of information that you might need to use references for includes:

Shutting down the system

Booting the system

Configuring devices

Other basic software procedures

See one or more of the following:

Solaris 2.x Handbook for SMCC Peripherals contains Solaris™ 2.x software
commands.

Online AnswerBook™ for the complete set of documentation supporting
the Solaris 2.x software environment.

Other software documentation that you received with your system.

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

Typeface or
Symbol

Meaning

Example

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files,
and directories; on-screen
computer output

Edit your

.login

file.

Use

ls -a

to list all files.

machine_name%

You have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, contrasted with
on-screen computer output

machine_name% su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Command-line placeholder:
replace with a real name or
value

To delete a file, type

rm

filename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms,
or words to be emphasized

Read Chapter 6 in the User’s Guide.
These are called class options.
You must be root to do this.