09-26-2007
Unix Career Path
Hi,
I've been in the IT field for a few years now, less than 10. I've done a little of everything from database administration, development, systems administration, and unix administration. Although, I wouldnt say I'm a senior level in any of those. Unix definitely stands out in my preferences of a career path so I decided to look from some kind of Junior Unix Systems Administration position. I found a position that isnt exactly sa authoritive, but has unix server monitoring tasks, and one of the biggest tasks they are looking for is a junior unix scripting person. They say in the future they are looking to take over the servers completely as its being handled by another team. Do you think this would be a good opportunity to learn more unix internals as a scripter?
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answerbook2_admin
answerbook2_admin(1M) System Administration Commands answerbook2_admin(1M)
NAME
answerbook2_admin - bring up AnswerBook2 administration tool GUI
SYNOPSIS
/usr/dt/bin/answerbook2_admin [-h]
DESCRIPTION
The AnswerBook2 server product is no longer included with Solaris or the Solaris Documentation CD products. Solaris docmentation is now
provided in HTML and PDF format on the Documentation CD and does not require the Answerbook2 server to be viewed.
answerbook2_admin brings up the default web browser showing the administration interface for the local AnswerBook2 server.
The administration functionality is also accessible through the AnswerBook2 Admin option within the System_Admin subset of the Application
Manager function on the CDE front panel Applications menu.
If you need an AnswerBook2 server, you can download the AnswerBook2 server software from http://www.sun.com.
OPTIONS
The following option is supported:
-h Displays a usage statement.
USAGE
At startup time, answerbook2_admin starts up the default web browser (for example, Mozilla) and displays the URL specified for administer-
ing the local AnswerBook2 server (http://localhost:8888). If the user has set up administration access control, the web browser prompts for
a valid administrator login and password for this document server before displaying the administration tool.
FILES
/usr/lib/ab2/dweb/data/config/admin_passwd
File containing username:password
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |http://www.sun.com |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
attributes(5)
NOTES
Once there is an open web browser and access to the AnswerBook2 Administration tool, use its online Help system to find out more about
administering the AnswerBook2 server.
SunOS 5.10 29 Oct 2004 answerbook2_admin(1M)