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About This Manual
Audience
Organization
Related Information
Reader's Comments
Conventions
 
1    Introduction to Tru64 UNIX
1.1    Overview
1.1.1    Product History
1.1.2    Product Description
1.1.3    Standards
1.2    Product Features and Enhancements
1.2.1    Scalability Features
1.2.2    Features of the Installation Process
1.2.3    System and Network Management Utilities
1.2.4    AdvFS Features
1.2.4.1    Fileset Creation with var Area in /usr
1.2.4.2    On-Disk Format for AdvFS Domains
1.2.5    Networking Features
1.2.6    UNIX and Microsoft Windows Interoperability
1.2.7    Advanced Printing Software
1.2.8    Documentation
1.2.9    Year 2000 Readiness
1.3    Performance
1.4    Optional Components
1.4.1    TruCluster Server
1.4.2    Logical Storage Manager
1.4.3    Advanced File System Utilities
1.4.4    Developer's Toolkit
1.4.5    Advanced Server for UNIX
1.4.6    Multimedia Services
1.4.7    Other Software
1.5    Packaging
1.5.1    Documentation
1.5.2    Licensing
 
2    System Management
2.1    Installation
2.1.1    Full Installation
2.1.2    Update Installation
2.1.3    Cloned Installations
2.1.4    The setld Utility
2.2    Configuration
2.3    Logical Storage Manager
2.4    System Management Utilities
2.4.1    The SysMan Menu
2.4.2    The SysMan Station
2.4.3    The CDE Application Manager
2.5    Performance and Event Management
2.5.1    Compaq Insight Manager
2.5.2    Compaq Analyze
2.5.3    Performance Manager
2.5.4    Monitoring Performance History Utility
2.5.5    The sys_check Utility
2.5.6    X-Based Utilities
2.5.7    Environmental Monitoring
2.5.8    Event Manager
2.5.9    DECevent Translation and Reporting Utility
2.6    Hardware Management
2.6.1    The hwmgr utility
2.6.2    Dynamic Device Recognition
2.7    Dynamically Loadable Subsystems
2.8    Dynamic System Configuration
2.9    Dataless Management Services
 
3    Networking
3.1    Overview
3.2    The Internet Protocol Suite
3.2.1    Application-Layer Protocols
3.2.1.1    Domain Name Service Protocol
3.2.1.2    Routing Protocols
3.2.1.3    File Transfer Protocol
3.2.1.4    Network File System Protocol over UDP transport
3.2.1.5    Network File System Protocol over TCP transport
3.2.1.6    Telnet Protocol
3.2.1.7    Trivial File Transfer Protocol
3.2.1.8    Finger Protocol
3.2.1.9    Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
3.2.1.10    Simple Network Management Protocol
3.2.1.11    POP3
3.2.1.12    IMAP4
3.2.1.13    Resource Reservation Protocol
3.2.2    Transport-Level Protocols
3.2.2.1    User Datagram Protocol
3.2.2.2    Transmission Control Protocol
3.2.3    Internet Network-Level Protocols
3.2.3.1    Internet Protocol
3.2.3.2    Address Resolution Protocol
3.2.3.3    Internet Control Message Protocol
3.3    Network Transports
3.3.1    Asynchronous Transfer Mode
3.3.2    Ethernet Networks
3.3.3    Fast Ethernet Networks
3.3.4    Gigabit Ethernet Networks
3.3.5    Fiber Distributed Data Interface Networks
3.3.6    Token Ring Networks
3.3.7    Multiple Adapter Support
3.3.8    NetRAIN
3.4    Application Programming Interfaces
3.4.1    X/Open Transport Interface
3.4.2    Sockets
3.4.3    STREAMS
3.4.4    Sockets and STREAMS Interaction
3.4.5    Data Link Interface
3.4.6    Data Link Provider Interface
3.4.7    Extensible SNMP Interface
3.5    Network Administration Software
3.5.1    Networking Commands and Utilities
3.5.2    Ethernet Packet Filter and Packet Filter Applications
3.5.3    Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
3.5.4    The Internet Boot Protocol Daemon
3.5.5    SNMP Agent
3.5.6    The gated Daemon
3.5.7    The screend Daemon
3.5.8    UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program
3.5.9    Local Area Transport
3.5.10    Network Interface Monitoring
3.6    Naming Services
3.6.1    Domain Name Service
3.6.2    Network Information Service
3.7    Time Services
3.7.1    Network Time Protocol
3.7.2    Time Synchronization Protocol
 
4    File Systems
4.1    Overview
4.2    Virtual File System
4.3    Advanced File System
4.4    UNIX File System
4.5    Network File System
4.5.1    NFS Version 3 Features
4.5.2    Enhancements to NFS
4.6    Compact Disk Read-Only Memory File System
4.7    Memory File System
4.8    The /proc File System
4.9    File-on-File Mounting File System
4.10    File Descriptor File System
 
5    Kernel, Symmetric Multiprocessing, Virtual Memory, and Device Support
5.1    The Tru64 UNIX Kernel
5.1.1    Kernel Tuning
5.1.2    System Attributes and Parameters
5.1.3    Enhanced Kernel Debugging
5.2    Symmetric Multiprocessing
5.3    Virtual Memory
5.3.1    Managing and Tracking Pages
5.3.2    Prewriting Modified Pages
5.3.3    Using Attributes to Control Paging and Swapping
5.3.4    Paging Operation
5.3.5    Swapping Operation
5.3.6    Swap Space Allocation Mode
5.3.7    Using Swap Buffers
5.3.8    Unified Buffer Cache
5.4    Device Support
 
6    Development Environment
6.1    Compaq C Compiler
6.2    Debuggers
6.2.1    The dbx Debugger
6.2.2    The ladebug Debugger
6.3    Profiling Tools
6.4    Shared Libraries
6.4.1    Quickstart
6.4.2    Dynamic Loader
6.4.3    Versioning
6.5    Run-Time Libraries
6.6    Java Development Kit
6.7    Development Commands
6.8    Thread Support
6.8.1    POSIX Threads Library
6.8.2    Visual Threads
6.8.3    Thread-Independent Services
6.9    Memory-Mapped File Support
6.10    Real-Time User and Programming Environment
6.11    Network Programming Interfaces
 
7    UNIX and Windows NT Interoperability
7.1    Overview
7.2    Advanced Server for UNIX
7.3    Windows 2000 Single Sign-On
7.4    Data Access (ODBC and JDBC)
7.5    COM for Tru64 UNIX
 
8    The Windowing Environment
8.1    Common Desktop Environment
8.2    X Window System
8.2.1    X Client Libraries
8.2.2    X Server
8.2.3    Multihead Graphic Support
8.2.4    X Server Extensions
8.2.5    Display Manager
8.2.6    Font Server
8.2.7    X Clients
8.3    Motif Suite of Components
8.3.1    Extended Widget Set
8.3.2    X Clients
 
9    Security
9.1    Overview
9.2    Identification and Authentication
9.3    Audit System
9.4    Discretionary Access Controls
9.5    Security Administration
9.5.1    Configuring System Security
9.5.2    Windows-Based Administration Utilities
9.6    Object Reuse
9.7    Protected Environment for Trusted Components
9.8    Integrity Features
9.9    Unique Security Features
9.9.1    The Security Integration Architecture Layer
9.9.2    Network Information Service Compatibility
9.9.3    Configuration and Setup Script
9.9.4    Graphical User Interfaces
9.9.5    Division of Privileges
 
10    Internationalization
10.1    Overview
10.2    Supported Languages
10.3    Locale Creation
10.4    Enhanced Terminal Subsystem for Asian Languages
10.5    Enhanced Sorting for Asian Languages
10.6    Multilingual Emacs Editor
10.7    Support for User-Defined Characters
10.8    Codeset Conversion
10.9    Unicode Support
10.10    Support for the Euro Character
10.11    Internationalized Curses Library
10.12    Internationalized Printing
10.13    Graphical Internationalization Configuration Tool
10.14    Mail and 8-Bit Character Support
10.15    Enhanced file Command
10.16    Internationalization for Graphical Applications
10.16.1    Internationalized Motif Widgets
10.16.2    Internationalized CDE Clients
10.16.3    Additional Internationalized Motif Clients
 
Glossary of Common UNIX and General Computer Terms
 
Figures
2-1    Initial Window of Full Installation
2-2    Initial Window of Update Installation
2-3    System Setup
2-4    Quick Setup
2-5    Custom Setup
2-6    The SysMan Menu
2-7    The SysMan Station
3-1    TCP/IP Protocols
3-2    Frameworks XTI, STREAMS and Sockets Interactions
3-3    Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
4-1    File Systems
 
Tables
1-1    Features and Benefits
2-1    User-Controlled Features of the Update Process
2-2    Built-In Features of the Update Process
4-1    AdvFS Features and Benefits
10-1    Languages and Locales
 
Index