Personal System Administration Guide

Document Number: 007-1366-170

CONTRIBUTORS

Written by Amy Smith

Updated by Douglas B. O'Morain and Laura Wirth Peters

Updated by Julie Boney

Production by Karen Jacobson

Engineering contributions by Betsy Zeller, Roger Chickering, Joe Ruffles, Chris Beekhuis, Jenny Leung, Chandra Pisupati, Ray Niblett, John Relph, and Will Rusch, Rebecca Underwood.

COPYRIGHT

© 2000, 2003 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved; provided portions may be copyright in third parties, as indicated elsewhere herein. No permission is granted to copy, distribute, or create derivative works from the contents of this electronic documentation in any manner, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Silicon Graphics, Inc.

LIMITED RIGHTS LEGEND

The electronic (software) version of this document was developed at private expense; if acquired under an agreement with the USA government or any contractor thereto, it is acquired as "commercial computer software" subject to the provisions of its applicable license agreement, as specified in (a) 48 CFR 12.212 of the FAR; or, if acquired for Department of Defense units, (b) 48 CFR 227-7202 of the DoD FAR Supplement; or sections succeeding thereto. Contractor/manufacturer is Silicon Graphics, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy 2E, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351.

TRADEMARKS AND ATTRIBUTIONS

Silicon Graphics, SGI, the SGI logo, IRIS, and IRIX are registered trademarks, and Extent File System (EFS), Impressario, IRIS InSight, IRIS Showcase, and XFS are trademarks, of Silicon Graphics, Inc. Indy is a registered trademark used under license in the U.S. and owned by Silicon Graphics, Inc. in other countries worldwide.

Adobe Photoshop and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. NetLS is a trademark of Apollo Computer, Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company. AppleShare, AppleTalk, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. FLEXlm is a trademark of GLOBEtrotter Software, Inc. Hayes is a trademark of Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. Jaz and Zip are trademarks of Iomega Corporation. Internet Explorer is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Motorola is a trademark of Motorola Corporation. Netscape, Netscape Navigator, and Netscape Mail are trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation. NetWare is a trademark of Novell, Inc. Java, JavaScript, and NFS are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. SyQuest is a trademark of SyQuest Technology, Inc. U.S. Robotics is a trademark of 3Com Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company, Ltd.

Record of Revision

Revision 160January 2001 
This manual describes system administrator responsibilities for SGI workstations.

Revision 170January 2003 

This update supports the IRIX 6.5.19 release..