NAME

admin − perform routine system administration tasks automatically

SYNOPSIS

admin

DESCRIPTION

The admin facility uses a menu interface to collect information and execute routine system administration procedures.  The following areas are covered:

•  Initializing your system and setting up administrative conditions

•  Configuring your system

•  Adding or removing user accounts

•  Setting up a network

•  Setting up uucp facilities

•  Installing or maintaining a printer

•  Installing cluster and/or diskless nodes

Initially, admin prints a menu of activities.  The user selects a choice by entering the associated letter, with no carriage return.  Subsequent prompts request specific information; in most cases, the prompts are self-explanatory. 

The user should boot to single-user UNIX before invoking admin, for tasks other than modifying user or group status, or archiving/retrieving files and directories.  For cluster or diskless nodes, use admin only on the server node.  The other menu choices require quiescent file systems. 

The admin facility uses a series of shell scripts to execute procedures.  The super user can examine these scripts in /usr/lib/admin.scripts to see what happens in each procedure. 

See the appropriate entries in Section 5 for formats of entries to admin prompts. 

FILES

/etc/admin
/usr/lib/admin.scripts/∗

SEE ALSO

aliases(5), disktab(5), fstab(5), gettytab(5), group(5), hosts(5), networks(5), passwd(5), printcap(5), remote(5), termcap(5), ttys(5), ttytype(5), and Section 3 of the System Administrator Guide contained in SMM:1. 

DIAGNOSTICS

Usage responses to some improper inputs.  Boundary checking for most entries. 
 

INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS 4.3 BSD  —  20 June 1987