Topics for the Solaris 10 Release
The following services or utilities are covered in this book:
- Perl 5
 
The Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) is a tool that can be used to generate scripts to assist with system administration tasks.
 
- Chapter 2, Managing Web Cache Servers
 
NCA provides improved web server performance by caching web pages.
 
- Chapter 3, Time-Related Services
 
NTP and time-related utilities can be used to synchronize time for many systems.
 
- Chapter 4, Managing Network File Systems (Overview)
 
NFS is a protocol that provides the ability to access file systems from a remote host.
 
- Chapter 7, SLP (Overview)
 
SLP is a dynamic service discovery protocol.
 
- Chapter 12, Mail Services (Overview)
 
Mail services allow for a message to be sent to one or more people while routing the message over whatever networks are necessary.
 
- Chapter 15, Solaris PPP 4.0 (Overview)
 
PPP is a protocol that provides point-to-point links between remote hosts.
 
- Chapter 24, UUCP (Overview)
 
UUCP enables hosts to exchange files
 
- Chapter 27, Working With Remote Systems (Overview)
 
These commands are used to access files on remote systems. The commands include ftp, rlogin and rcp.