Trusted Solaris 8 Roadmap

Documentation Overview

Since the Trusted Solaris 8 operating environment is based on the Solaris 8 operating environment, you need access to the complete Solaris 8 documentation set in addition to the Trusted Solaris 8 documentation. The Trusted Solaris documentation set focuses on the those aspects of the environment that are different from Solaris 8. The manuals are available in both printed and online versions.

Trusted Solaris 8 Documentation Set

The Trusted Solaris documentation set consists of:

Trusted Solaris 8 Release Notes (805-8117-10) provides help for getting started with and using the Trusted Solaris 8 version of the software. It lists known problems and describes workarounds (primary audience: administrators, secondary audience: developers, end users).
Trusted Solaris Installation and Configuration (805-8114-10) describes how to install the Trusted Solaris operating environment at networked and non-networked sites (primary audience: administrators, secondary audience: developers).
Trusted Solaris 8 Installation and Configuration on the Sun Enterprise 10000 (805-8125-10) describes how to install the Trusted Solaris operating environment on the E10000 server (primary audience: administrators).
Trusted Solaris User's Guide (805-8115-10) describes the basic features of the Trusted Solaris environment from the end user's point of view. Although it is aimed at end users, it explains basic concepts that are of importance to administrators and application developers as well. It provides a glossary of terms covering the entire product (primary audience: end users, administrators, secondary audience: developers).
Trusted Solaris Administration Overview (805-8119-10) explains the concepts of administration in the Trusted Solaris operating environment and provides an overview of administrative tools and commands (primary audience: administrators, secondary audience: developers).
Trusted Solaris Administrator's Procedures (805-8120-10) provides detailed information for performing specific administration tasks (primary audience: administrators, secondary audience: developers).
Trusted Solaris Audit Administration (805-8121-10) describes the auditing system (primary audience: administrators, secondary audience: developers).
Trusted Solaris Label Administration (805-8122-10) provides information on specifying label components in the label encodings file (primary audience: administrators).
Trusted Solaris Developer's Guide (805-8116-10) describes how to develop applications for the Trusted Solaris environment (primary audience: developers, secondary audience: administrators).
Compartmented Mode Workstation Labeling: Encodings Format (805-8123-10) describes the syntax used in the label encodings file for enforcing the various rules concerning well-formed labels for a system. This is a third-party document, written by the MITRE Corporation specifically for the U.S. government. It complements the Trusted Solaris Label Administration (primary audience: administrators, secondary audience: developers).
Trusted Solaris 8 Transition Guide (805-8118-10) provides an overview of the differences between earlier versions of the Trusted Solaris, Solaris 8, and Trusted Solaris 8 operating environments (primary audience: administrators, end users, secondary audience: developers).
Trusted Solaris 8 Reference Manual (805-8124-10) provides a printed version of all Trusted Solaris man pages in four volumes (primary audience: all). Trusted Solaris 8 Reference Manual (835-8010-10) is the online version; it is an AnswerBook collection with nine sections.
The Trusted Solaris 8 Roadmap (805-8113-10) --this document.

Trusted Solaris 8 Printed Documentation

Four printed Trusted Solaris 8 documents are shipped with the software: Trusted Solaris 8 Release Notes, Trusted Solaris Installation and Configuration, Trusted Solaris 8 Transition Guide, and this guide, Trusted Solaris 8 Roadmap. The Trusted Solaris 8 Installation and Configuration on the Sun Enterprise 10000 (SPARC only) is shipped with the Trusted Solaris Supplemental Software for the Sun Enterprise 10000. Since the Trusted Solaris operating environment is based on the Solaris environment, Trusted Solaris customers who rely on Trusted Solaris documentation are expected to have access to the Solaris documentation as well. The Solaris documentation can be ordered from http://www1.fatbrain.com/documentation/sun.

Online Documentation and Man Pages

All Trusted Solaris manuals are available in online format from the Trusted Solaris 8 AnswerBook CD-ROM (704-7506-10) and at the Sun website: http://www.sun.com/docs and can be printed from these sources if desired.

In addition to the online documentation, online help is provided in the Trusted Solaris operating environment through the Front Panel help icon, help menus, and help buttons.

An extensive library of man pages for the Trusted Solaris 8 operating environment is available in the Trusted Solaris 8 Reference Manual mentioned above and from the command line using the man(1) command.

Note -

If a man page is in both the Solaris and the Trusted Solaris reference manuals, refer to the man page in the Trusted Solaris 8 Reference Manual, since it includes the differences unique to the Trusted Solaris operating environment.

For an overview of the Trusted Solaris environment with a complete listing of available commands, see the following introductory man pages for each section of the reference manual:

Accessing Trusted Solaris Man Pages

The man pages for the Trusted Solaris environment reside in three different directories. For the man command to find all the Trusted Solaris man pages, your man page path needs to be set to find the three directories in the following list, along with any other directories where man pages are installed at your site.

/usr/man
/usr/openwin/man
/usr/dt/man

For C shell users, the MANPATH variable can be set individually by users in their shell initialization files or globally by administrators in site-wide shell initialization files in /etc/skel (or alternate skeleton directory) to be copied into the home directories for all users. To set the MANPATH variable, enter:

trusted% setenv MANPATH="/usr/dt/man:/usr/openwin/man:/usr/man:$MANPATH"

To check a system's current MANPATH setting, enter:

echo $MANPATH

This should display the three paths mentioned above and any other paths to man pages at your site.

Specifying Man Pages by Section Number

To check whether different versions of a topic exist in different sections, enter man with the -l option:

trusted% man -l topic

To specify man pages by section, use the man with the -s option:

trusted % man -s sectionnumber topic

The following example shows the results of using the -l option to find all the Intro man pages.

trusted% man -l Intro
Intro (1)   -M /usr/man
Intro (1m)  -M /usr/man
Intro (2)   -M /usr/man
Intro (3)   -M /usr/man
Intro (9f)  -M /usr/man
Intro (9s)  -M /usr/man
Intro (9e)  -M /usr/man
Intro (9)   -M /usr/man
Intro (4)   -M /usr/man
Intro (5)   -M /usr/man
Intro (7)   -M /usr/man
Intro (6)   -M /usr/man

By default, if you enter man topic in the Trusted Solaris environment without specifying the section and there are multiple sections containing man pages with the same name, the man page for the lowest numbered section displays, for example:

trusted% man Intro 
Trusted Solaris User Commands                                Intro(1)
NAME
     Intro, intro - Introduction to commands and application programs

DESCRIPTION
  ...

The following example illustrates specifying a section number:

trusted% man -s7 intro
Trusted Solaris Device and Network Interfaces              Intro(7)

NAME
     Intro, intro - Introduction to special files

DESCRIPTION
      ...