sysidtool(1M)						  System Administration Commands					     sysidtool(1M)

NAME

       sysidtool, sysidnet, sysidns, sysidsys, sysidroot, sysidpm, sysidnfs4, sysidkbd - system configuration

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/sysidnet

       /usr/sbin/sysidns

       /usr/sbin/sysidsys

       /usr/sbin/sysidroot

       /usr/sbin/sysidpm

       /usr/sbin/sysidnfs4

       /usr/sbin/sysidkbd

DESCRIPTION

       sysidtool  is  a suite of programs that configure a new system, or one that has been unconfigured with sys-unconfig(1M). The sysidtool pro-
       grams run automatically at system installation, or during the first boot after a machine has been successfully unconfigured.

       These programs have no effect except at such times, and should never be run manually.

       The sysidtool programs set up the appropriate information in the machine's configuration files, in the kernel, and on the machine's network
       interface. The following list shows the available commands and the information for which each of the commands lists.

       sysidnet: network configuration

	   Machine's default locale. Machine's console type. Machine's host name. Machine's IP address.

       sysidns: name service configuration

	   Name service choice: NIS, NIS+, DNS, LDAP, or none. Machine's IP subnet mask (if no NIS/NIS+ server can automatically be located on the
	   machine's sub-network. Domain name for chosen name service. Hostname and IP address of name server(s). DNS search list (DNS	name  ser-
	   vice only)

       sysidsys: miscellaneous system configuration

	   Machine's  IP subnet mask (if an NIS/NIS+ server was automatically located on the machine's sub-network). Machine's time zone. Date and
	   time.

       sysidroot: control superuser information

	   Machine's root password.

       sysidpm: power management configuration

	   Auto-shutdown confirmation if the system is Energystar-V2 compliant, that is, a new system model shipped after October 1, 1995.

       sysidnfs4: NFSv4 domain configuration

	   Domain name to be used  by  NFSv4  client(s)  and  server(s)  to  transmit  user  and  group  id's  as  strings  of	the  general  form
	   "[user|group]@domain".

       sysidkbd: keyboard layout configuration

	   The corresponding keytable is loaded into the kernel according to the configured keyboard layout.

       sysidconfig: host- or platform-specific configuration

	   This command controls specification and execution of custom configuration applications that can be specified for a particular host or a
	   particular platform. See sysidconfig(1M).

       The sysidtool programs attempt to obtain system configuration information from various name service databases, for example,  NIS,  or  from
       the  sysidcfg(4)  file,	and  you  are prompted to provide the information if it cannot be found. However, you can avoid one or more of the
       prompts by preconfiguring the appropriate configuration information in the name service databases or in the sysidcfg(4) file.

       To preconfigure the information in the name service databases, you must use the name service commands or the Solstice AdminSuite tools. See
       for more details about how to preconfigure the system configuration information.

       The machine's configuration information is set up in its /etc and /var files.

       If a system has more than one network interface, you can use sysidtool to configure all interfaces on the system.

       You  cannot  use the name service databases or the sysidcfg(4) file to suppress the Power Management configuration prompt. However, you can
       suppress it by creating either the /autoshutdown or /noautoshutdown file before installation reboot. Accordingly, the auto-shutdown feature
       is silently configured. The /autoshutdown or /noautoshutdown files are removed by sysidpm before it exits.

       sysidnfs4 installs the /etc/.NFS4inst_state.domain file upon the successful configuration of the NFSv4 domain name. If this file is present
       during system reboot, the sysidnfs4 program is run but no prompts are  displayed.  The  suppression  of	prompts  is  intended  for  system
       upgrades, in which a system configuration typically stays unchanged. The stability level of this interface is obsolete

       sysidkbd  prompts  for  the  keyboards with zero-bCountryCode and then sets the keyboard layout string in the /etc/default/kbd file. If the
       sysidkbd gets the valid keyboard layout string, the string will be set into the entry "LAYOUT=" in the file.

FILES

	 /etc/.UNCONFIGURED
	 /etc/nodename
	 /etc/hostname.??[0-9]
	 /etc/default/init
	 /etc/defaultdomain

       /etc/passwd    password file. See passwd(4).

       /etc/shadow    shadow password file. See shadow(4).

	 /etc/inet/hosts
	 /etc/inet/netmasks
	 /var/nis/NIS_COLD_START
	 /var/yp/aliases
	 /var/yp/binding/*/ypservers
	 /etc/.sysIDtool.state

       /etc/power.conf	       Power Management configuration file. See power.conf(4).

       /etc/.PM_RECONFIGURE    If this file is present during system reboot, the sysidpm program is run. This file is removed by sysidpm.

	 /etc/.NFS4inst_state.domain
	 /etc/default/kdb

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWadmap, SUNWpmu	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       powerd(1M), sys-unconfig(1M), sysidconfig(1M), passwd(4), power.conf(4), shadow(4), sysidcfg(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

       NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the Solaris Operating system. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are  available
       in the current Solaris release. For more information, visit http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.

SunOS 5.11							    28 Nov 2006 						     sysidtool(1M)