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Overview
This chapter explains how to use Tadpole's Locations
software to customize system settings to accurately
reflect conditions at the locations where you connect your
Tadpole notebook to existing networks.
The Locations dialog box enables you to control and
manipulate the network interfaces and systems services
that are normally only started or stopped during system
boot or shutdown. Changing these interfaces and services
on the fly is most useful on portable systems that incor-
porate “Save and Resume” (Solaris CPR) functionality
and are liable to require connection to different networks
without having to reboot.
The Locations dialog box enables you to define as many
different locations as you wish and to switch from one to
another whenever you require.
A location consists of a set of system services and config-
urations for those services. Location information is stored
in subdirectories of the
/etc/locations
directory.
Each location has it's own directory and configuration
files live below that in the databases directory in the same
tree position as they would normally. Configuration files
are created when you define a new location and are modi-
fied directly when using the GUI tool.
In this way a number of different locations can be stored,
recalled, and used to specify the configuration informa-
tion a system administrator would normally define for a
static workstation. Refer to the
admintool(4)
man
page for more information about how a single set of dia-
log boxes changes the configuration files that define your
system's location.
Changing Locations
Overview
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