Sun Microsystems Ultra Enterprise 4000 Systems, System Installation Manual

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xii Ultra Enterprise 6000/5000/4000 Systems Installation Guide—November 1996
Typographic Conventions
The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.
Shell Prompts
The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt
for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Typeface or
Symbol
Meaning Example
AaBbCc123
The names of commands,
files, and directories;
on-screen computer output Edit your
.login
file.
Use
ls -a
to list all files.
machine_name% You have mail.
AaBbCc123
What you type, contrasted
with on-screen computer
output
machine_name% su
Password:
AaBbCc123 Command-line placeholder:
replace with a real name or
value To delete a file, type
rm
filename.
AaBbCc123 Book titles, new words or
terms, or words to be
emphasized Read Chapter 6 in the User’s Guide.
These are called class options.
You must be root to do this.
Shell Prompt
C shell
machine_name%
C shell superuser
machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell
$
Bourne shell and Korn shell
superuser
#