Chapter 4:
After you install
After you install UnixWare 7, it is recommended you read and follow these instructions:
- Creating emergency recovery media is described in the onlince documentation on http://localhost:8458 under Backup and Restore.
- If you installed the Linux Kernel Personality (LKP), configure your system to use LKP using the information found under Linux Kernel Personality in the online documentation. This documentation is installed with the lxcompat set on the Updates CD (CD #2), which contains the lkpdoc package.
- "Configuring additional hardware".
- "Configuring and administering the system".
- "Specifying a desktop to use"
- "Configuring and using DocView"
- "Getting updated information about your system"
- "Verifying the installation of packages"
- "Large physical memory support"
- "Switching auditing on"
- If you have additional product or feature licenses that you did not enter during installation or upgrade, see "Using the License Manager" for information on using the License Manager to enter them, as well as how to register your products.
Complete documentation on all of these tasks is found in DocView, on http://localhost:8458. This chapter presents a brief introduction to these initial setup tasks, with pointers to the online documentation for more information.
Configuring additional hardware
The UnixWare 7 system provides SCOadmin managers and other utilities with which you can install and configure additional hardware.
Audio
Use the Audio Configuration Manager to add and configure sound cards. You can play and record audio files with the scosound(X1) utility. For more information, see Configuring audio adapters under Hardware in the online documentation.
Printers
Use the Printer Setup Manager to:
- add, modify, copy, or remove local and remote printers
- specify the default printer
- enable or disable a printer
- set the printer up to accept or reject print jobs
For more information, see Managing the print service under Hardware in the online documentation.
Network
Use the Network Configuration Manager to configure LAN network adapter drivers, WAN hardware, and LAN and WAN protocols. For more information, see Configuring network adapters under Networking in the online documentation.
Video
Use the Video Configuration Manager to:
- add or remove graphics adapters from your system
- add or remove monitors from your system
- change the resolution and mode of your graphics devices
For more information, see Configuring video adapters and monitors under Hardware in the online documentation.
Modems
Use the Modem Manager to add serial modems to your system.PCMCIA modems are configured using the Device Configuration Utility (DCU). ISDN bus adapters are configured with the Network Configuration Manager. For more information, see Adding and configuring modems under Hardware in the online documentation.
Serial lines
Use the Serial Manager to configure individual serial ports on COM1 through COM4. For more information, see Configuring serial ports under Hardware in the online documentation.
Mass storage
Use the Device Configuration Utility (DCU) to add support for tape, CD-ROM, and hard disk drives which were not auto-detected during the installation process. See the dcu(1M) manual page, Using the Device Configuration Utility under Hardware in the online help, and "Installing Hardware".
Configuring and administering the system
For information on how to configure and manage the Linux Kernel Personality, see System Management under Linux Kernel Personalityin the online documentation.
SCOadmin is the primary system administration tool in UnixWare 7. With SCOadmin managers, you can configure and then administer the following key services on your system. Use the Search mechanism in the online documentation on http://localhost:8458 to find the sections referenced below.
Users and Groups
- add, modify and remove users and groups
- change a user's locale
- set remote access permissions
- modify system user and group defaults
See Administering user accounts under Users and Groups in the online documentation.
Filesystems
Use the Filesystem Manager to add, modify, and remove filesystems.See Administering filesystems under Filesystems in the online documentation.
FTP
Use the FTP Server Manager to:
- enable anonymous ftp
- control access to your ftp server and its files and directories
- view ftp log files
See Administering File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers under Networking in the online documentation.
Name Service
- configure a host as a name server
- modify zone configuration files
- define resource records and other configuration information
See Administering Domain Name System (DNS) servers under Networking in the online documentation.
Use the Mail Manager to configure the mail system on your computer.See Configuring mail and messaging under Mail and Messaging in the online documentation.
Network protocols
Use the Network Configuration Manager to:
- add, modify, and remove network protocols (TCP/IP and PPP)
- add, modify, and remove network hardware from your system
See Configuring LAN connections and Configuring WAN connections under Networking in the online documentation.
Additional SCOadmin managers enable you to configure advanced networking, security, process management, and other capabilities. For general information on using SCOadmin, see Administering your system with SCOadmin under Desktops in the online documentation.
Specifying a desktop to use
By default, UnixWare 7 displays the graphical login program,dtgreet, when you boot the system into multiuser mode. To choose a desktop, select one of the following from the graphical login's Sessions menu:
CDE Desktop
This desktop is the preferred desktop for UnixWare 7. It conforms to the Common Desktop Environment standard, and provides the following features:
- a convenient, easy to use task bar
- calendar and help applications
- access to all SCOadmin managers and configuration tools from the desktop
- a graphical login
This desktop is enabled by default.
For more information on the CDE desktop, click above the Help icon on the CDE desktop, then click on CDE Help.
Panorama Desktop
This desktop, based on pmwm release 2.0, contains the following features:
- standard task bar
- panner window
- desktop preferences editor
- cascading root menu
- calendar, mail, and login clients
For more information, see the manual page for pmwm(X1).
Failsafe Session
This desktop is available if you corrupt your CDE desktop configuration files. It provides a basic, uncustomized CDE desktop.
Configuring and using DocView
DocView is enabled by default in all system profiles except Small Footprint. It serves all the online documentation mentioned in this book on http://localhost:8458. DocView replaces the SCOhelp browser used in previous releases. For more information on DocView, see the Release 7.1.3 section under New Features and Notes in the online documentation.
DocView uses a search engine based on htdig, After you install all software and documentation, you must create the search index using the /usr/lib/docview/conf/rundig command. This process can take an hour or longer depending on how much documentation is installed, so it is recommended that you run the command when the system load is minimal.
To start the docview server (or find out whether it is running), use the /etc/docview command. In most installations, DocView will start by default when the system is booted.
To view the documentation served by DocView:
- Enter docview at the command line in an xterm window on your desktop.
- From the CDE desktop, double-click on the Help icon.
- From the Panorama desktop, double-click on the Help icon.
- Point any browser (including a browser running under LKP) at http://localhost:8458. Browsers on other systems on your network can also connect to the DocView server at http://sysname:8458, where sysname is your system's fully qualified node name, such as mysystem.mynet.com.
- From within an SCOadmin manager, point to (or highlight) the item you want help on and press F1. Or, click on theHelp button if one is available.
For more information on configuring and using advanced features of DocView, see Desktops in the online documentation.
Getting updated information about your system
Two important web sites serve information about UnixWare 7 systems:
- The Support Library (http://www.sco.com/support) contains UnixWare 7 technical articles and provides solutions to common problems you might encounter. You can search by product, keywords, and article numbers.
- The Late News documentation site contains information about known software and hardware limitations that became known after this release of UnixWare 7 became available. Late News can be found off the Documentation Web Site at http://www.sco.com/support/docs.
Verifying the installation of packages
When you install your system or layer on new packages, you might run the pkgchk(1M) command to verify that package installation proceeded correctly.
It is typical to see a number of errors when running this command, due to the interaction between the various packages on your system. You should make a note of any errors you find, but do not attempt to fix these errors with pkgchk -f. This command is currently not supported and may cause your system to fail or not reboot. There is no current workaround.
Large physical memory support
Any machine which contains memory at or above address 4G (2^32) requires large physical memory (LPM) support. Setting ENABLE_4GB_MEM=YES in /stand/boot allows detection of memory above 4GB. Using system tuning, physical memory can be divided into "dedicated" and "general purpose" segments.
See Managing Large Physical Memory in the online documentation at http://localhost:8458/en/SM_perform/CTOC-MngSysPerf.html for details of how to configure LPM support.
Switching auditing on
Even if you select the auditing package and therefore install it during the installation procedure, auditing is not turned on by default when the system boots.
To turn auditing on manually, run auditon as root. You should run auditoff to turn auditing off before you shut down the system. Rebooting the system with auditing switched on is very slow and should be avoided.
To switch auditing on and off automatically, edit /etc/rc2.d/S02audit to remove the comments from the lines that execute the commands auditon and auditoff.
Auditing cannot provide audit records for Linux Kernel Personality (LKP) mode activities on your system. See the auditon(1M) manual page for more details.