Installation guide

About This Guide
This manual describes the tasks you perform in order to administer the
Compaq Tru64 UNIX (formerly DIGITAL UNIX) operating system running
on a workstation or server.
Audience
This guide is intended for system administrators. Administrators should
have knowledge of the operating system concepts and commands, and the
hardware and software configuration. Experienced administrators are
expected to be very familiar with UNIX commands and utilities
New and Changed Features
This revision of the manual documents the following new features, changed
features, and retiring interfaces.
The Common Desktop Environment GUI
The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is the preferred operating
system interface and the SysMan graphical user interface, which runs
under the CDE, becomes the preferred method of system administration.
The SysMan Checklist is the preferred interface for system configuration
and customization. See Chapter 2 for more information about the
interfaces. The graphical interfaces will run under any X-compliant
windowing environment. Graphical user interfaces have on-line help
volumes describing how the interfaces are used.
New Information In this Book
This manual includes the following new topics:
• System administration tools and methods, which describes the SysMan
graphical user interface, and remote administration. See Chapter 2.
• SCSI Device Dynamic Device Recognition (DDR). See Chapter 6.
• The Class Scheduler, which allows you to manage processor time for
classes of processes. See Chapter 4.
• Enabling or disabling extended UIDs and GIDs See Chapter 9.
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