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Operating Systems Solaris Where to start Post 302243034 by pupp on Friday 3rd of October 2008 01:46:32 PM

10-03-2008

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Duke is exactly right... forget what you know about windows and don't compare the os's. you'll hate everything about unix if you do this. you'll only get more frustrated. you need to look beyond the window wizards/point and click stuff. there is a book that is really pretty good called "Essential System Administration" published by O-Reilly. Covers many sysadmin roles/responsibilities in the unix world. however, it does not cover any one specific flavor. its a generic approach... so showing active process stats in linux might use "top" and solaris might use "prstat". and if your environment is a single unix flavor... god you're in luck Smilie

you can also grab another box called "Solaris 10 - Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10" Its basically a study guide for the SCSA test. however, its pretty good from the ground up. what i suggest you do is grab the box and a sparc or x86 solaris box. make it into your sandbox and practice. read through the books/articles and practice what they are talking about. make zones, use ldoms, make swap files, back up a full version of the os, configure a network! once you get a hang of it all, you'll be amazed at the speed in which you can move through the environment on a command line.

good luck!

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curl_getenv

curl_getenv(3)							  libcurl Manual						    curl_getenv(3)

NAME

       curl_getenv - return value for environment name

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       char *curl_getenv(const char *name);

DESCRIPTION

       curl_getenv()  is  a  portable wrapper for the getenv() function, meant to emulate its behaviour and provide an identical interface for all
       operating systems libcurl builds on (including win32).

AVAILABILITY

       This function will be removed from the public libcurl API in a near future. It will instead be made "available" by source code access only,
       and then as curlx_getenv().

RETURN VALUE

       If  successful,	curl_getenv()  returns	a  pointer to the value of the specified environment. The memory it refers to is malloc()ed so the
       application must free() this when the data is no longer needed. When curl_getenv(3) fails to find the specified name,  it  returns  a  null
       pointer.

NOTE

       Under  unix  operating  systems, there isn't any point in returning an allocated memory, although other systems won't work properly if this
       isn't done. The unix implementation thus has to suffer slightly from the drawbacks of other systems.

SEE ALSO

       getenv(3C),

libcurl 7.12							   30 April 2004						    curl_getenv(3)