Errata: Solaris 10 System Administration Exam Prep: CX-310-202, Part II (2nd Edition)
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Publisher: Que Publishing May 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7897-3817-2 606 pages Author: Bill Calkins
The following corrections have been made to the book since it's first printing:
Page 27, additional material: I should have included the rules for host names which are as follows:
A hostname can consist of a text string of up to 24 characters using A-Z (upper or lowercase), 0-9, minus sign (-). Only use a period when delimiting components of the domain style name. No blanks or spaces. No distinction is made between upper and lowercase. The first character must be an alpha character or digit. The last character must not be a minus sign or a period. Hostnames must NOT consist of numbers only. The name must contain at least one alphbetical or special character. Although hostnames can be longer, for interoperability, use names that are 24 characters or less. Refer to RFC 1123 for hostname requirements.
Page 74, last paragraph
Currently reads: mount -F NFS <options>
Correction: mount -F nfs <options>
NFS should be lowercase
Page 75, table 2.10:
Change the option: -F NFS to -F nfs
Page 78
The command: "# dfmounts sunfire<cr>" does not display names with NFS version 4 clients.
Page 78, second paragraph up from the bottom:
Currently reads: mount -F nfs -o ro zeus:/usr/local/data,thor:/home/data/usr/local/data
Correction:
mount -F nfs -o ro zeus:/usr/local/data,thor:/home/data /usr/local/data
Add a space after data and before /usr/local/data
Page 84, above Table 2.13
The command: "showmount <options>"
does not show names of NFS version 4 clients.
Page 131, figure 3.5
Top level metadevice currently reads: RAID 1+0 Mirrored Volume 2GB
The top level metadevice should be a
0+1 Mirrored Volume 2GB
Page 131, figure 3.6
Currently reads: RAID1 submirror 1GB
Correction: Stripe 2GB
Page 169, bottom of page
Currently reads: /dev/md/dsk/d0 /dev/md/rdsk/d0
Correction: /dev/md/dsk/d10 /dev/md/rdsk/d10
Page 177, second paragraph
Currently reads: /dev/rdsk/c#t#d
Should read: /dev/rdsk/c#t#d#
Page 281, first paragraph
At the time of the writing, a sparse root zone required approx. 100MB of disk space. Now it requires approx 500MB of disk space.
A whole root zone requires approx 3.2GB of disk space.
Page 290, Halting a Zone
Although the command: "zoneadm -z testzone halt<cr>" will halt a zone, it's a better practice to shutdown the zone properly using the following command: "zlogin testzone shutdown -i6 -y now<cr>"
Page 294, second paragraph
Replace the sysidcfg entry with this entry:
lang=en_US
system_locale=C
terminal=vt100
network_interface=primary {
hostname=testzone
}
security_policy=NONE
name_service=NONE
timezone=US/Eastern
nfs4_domain=dynamic
root_password=<encrypted password>
For the <encrypted password> either cut and paste an encrypted password from the /etc/shadow file or use this command to generate an encrypted password: /usr/sfw/bin/openssl passwd secret
An encrypted password for the term "secret" will be generated.
Page 342, second paragraph:
Currently reads: # /export/install/Solaris_10/Misc/jumpstart_sample/check -r/tmp/rulestest<cr>
Correction:
# /export/install/Solaris_10/Misc/jumpstart_sample/check -r /tmp/rulestest<cr>
Put a space after -r
Page 419, WAN boot server requirements at the bottom of the page:
The WAN boot server does not require a local CD or DVD
Page 484, first sentence
Currently reads: RAID-Z provides a mirrored storage pool,
but it also provides single or double parity fault tolerance.
Correction:
RAID-Z provides provides single, double or triple parity fault tolerance.
Page 501, additonal information
Unmount a ZFS file system using "zfs umount /export/data<cr>" however, "zfs unmount /export/data<cr>" also works.
Page 521, Step by Step 9.8, step number 10
First log into the zone using zlogin before issuing the command: "zfs list<cr>"
Page 521, Step by Step 9.8, step number 1
A better command to use for shutting down the zone instead of "zoneadm -z testzone halt" would be "zlogin testzone shutdown -i6 -y now<cr>"
Page 528, question number 8
Answers A and B are the same.
Page 528, question number 9, answers C and D
Change "mypool" to "pool1"
Page 529, question 10 answer C
Currently reads: zfs set mountpoint=/export/docs/pool1/data
Correction:
zfs set mountpoint=/export/docs/pool1/docs
Page 529, question 11, answer C
Currently reads:
zfs set mountpoint=/pool1/datapool1/data
Correction:
zfs set mountpoint=/pool1/data