Peter,

Thanks for your comments. I'm not sure what happened to this message,
but I couldn't find this thread until this morning. Very strange. No doubt a 
network or server glitch of some sort.

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Kathy Slattery
> <kathy.slattery at sun.com> wrote:
> > A new version of the OpenSolaris System
> Administration Guide
> > that will be included in the Student Pack can be
> found at:
> >
> > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/files
> 
> Some quick miscellaneous comments:
> 
> It says 'your laptop'. I feel that's a little too
> specific - readers
> may interpret
> that as meaning you can't use other types of
> computer.

OK, I'll remove any specific mentions of "laptop".
We were told to focus on the laptop user when putting the
information together, but I don't need to do that in the text itself.

> 
> Page 10. I wouldn't introduce svcadm before
> mentioning svcs.

Do you think I need a section introducing SMF, svcs and svcadm before the
procedure? We we trying to keep things as simple and clean as possible. Another
option would be to add a reference chapter that covers these topics. What do you
think would be best?

> 
> Page 11/12 modifying NWAM. Step 5. You don't restart
> the service, you enable
> it again.
> 
> Page 13 'Manually configuring a wired connection'.
> Step 2. Should disable
> come before enable? Step 3. So how could you tell
> that bge0 is the wired
> interface? I mean, I know that the wired broadcom and
> ath0 the wireless
> atheros, but how does a new user work that out?
> 
> Page 14/15 Manually configuring wireless. Same as
> above. Step 6, is that
> "connect-wifi-e" or "connect-wifi -e"?

I think Steff covered most of these issues. There is a space in
the source before the -e. There's another one on page 36, so
I'm not sure why this one isn't rendering properly. I'll look into it.

> 
> Page 25 Monitoring ZFS disk space. It should be
> explained that ZFS quotas
> are something different to normal filesystem quotas.
> It may be better not to
> refer to them as quotas at all. Something like 'You
> can limit the
> amount of space
> used by a ZFS filesystem by ...'. (And a note that
> snapshots count against
> the limit too.)

I'll ask Cindy to fix or comment on this one. One of the problems
with a book by multiple writers. I don't "own" all of the text.

> 
> Page 27 'How to see available NFS shares' Confused
> me. What's missing from the
> text is that 'localserver' is the host that you want
> to query to see
> what filesystems
> it's exporting. Otherwise it appears in the command
> for no reason. (And would
> 'remoteserver' be a better name?)
> 

Remoteserver seems a better name. I'll change it and add a little
more text to make it clearer.

Thanks again for the comments.

-Kathy
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