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Operating Systems Solaris Where to start Post 302242870 by Gaskie on Friday 3rd of October 2008 05:59:53 AM

10-03-2008

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Where to start

Hi all,

Before I start, I just wanted to mention that I did check in the "I'm new to Unix, what books should I read" sub-forum but didn't find anything that I thought was useful (or maybe I don't know what I'm looking for!).

I'm a Windows Admin, have been for quite a few years, all the way from NT4 and upwards. In my new job, we are about to take on 60+ new Solaris 10 servers and already have quite a few in place. With the current state the world is in financially there are talk of job cuts and I have been advised by my boss to make myself as indispensible as possible by combining Unix/Solaris experience alongside my Windows experience.

My problem is that I have literally no idea where to even begin learning. Learning Windows in its various guises was easy since I had people to help me along the way (and also I was a lot younger, learning came easier!!). I've bought two books on Unix already that I thought would help me (Unix for Dummies, and Unix in a Nutshell) but unfortunately one assumes I have no knowledge of anything computer related, and the other looks like an extremely useful resource, but a bit beyond my scope at the moment.

Bear in mind that I know basically nothing, but am extremely keen to learn, can anyone advise on where I should start? I have access to Solaris 10 on my laptop, so I will have a working system to play with.

Any help is massively appreciated, thank you.

Gaskie

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nwpjmv

NWPJMV(1)							      nwpjmv								 NWPJMV(1)

NAME

       nwpjvm - Move print job to Unix queue

SYNOPSIS

       nwpjmv [ -S server ] [ -h ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password | -n ] [ -C ] [ -q queue name ] [ -c command ] [ -j job number ] [ -d ]

DESCRIPTION

       nwpjmv is a program that connects to print queues on NetWare servers and moves a designated print job to a Unix queue.

OPTIONS

       -h
	  -h is used to print out a short help text.

       -S server
	  server is the name of the server you want to use.

       -U user
	  user is the print server name at the server.

       -P password
	  password  is the password to use for the print server at the server. If neither -n nor -P are given, and the user has no open connection
	  to the server, pserver prompts for a password.

       -n
	  -n should be given if the print server does not require a password.

       -C
	  By default, passwords are converted to uppercase before they are sent to the server, because most servers require this. You can turn off
	  this conversion by -C.

       -q queue name
	  queue name is the name of the print queue you want to service.

       -c command
	  nwpjmv  removes  the designated job from the Novell queue and feeds the job file to stdin.  command is the printing command that is exe-
	  cuted for each job. The default command is 'lpr'.

	  You can insert several flags into the command, preceded by %. These are replaced with values retrieved from the queue structure for  the
	  print job.

	  %u: This field will be replaced by the name of the user who posted this print job.

	  %d: This field will be replaced by the job description field of this print job.

       -j job number
	  This designates the ID number of the print job to be moved.

       -d causes extra error messages to be logged.

SEE ALSO

       nwclient(5), slist(1), pqlist(1), ncpmount(8), ncpumount(8), pserver(1)

CREDITS

       nwpjmv was written by Bruno Browning (bruno@lss.wisc.edu) based on pserver by Volker Lendecke (lendecke@math.uni-goettingen.de)

nwpjmv								    03/15/2003								 NWPJMV(1)