Running Mac OS X Panther
By: James Duncan Davidson.
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Beijing; Cambridge; Farnham; Köln; Paris; Sebastopol; Taipei; Tokyo
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 306
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Mac OS; Operating systems (Computers); Macintosh (Computer) -- Programming
Other titles: Mac OS X Panther
First sentence: Mac OS X is the first real operating system for the 21st century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-292) and index.
"Inside Mac OS X's core"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Getting started; title: 1. Where it all came from; title: The classic Mac OS; title: System 7; title: Copland; title: NEXTSTEP; title: Rhapsody; title: Continued development of the classic Mac OS; title: Mac OS X 10.0; title: Mac OS 10.1; title: Mac OS 10.2 jaguar; title: Mac OS X panther; title: What does the future hold?; title: 2. Lay of the land; title: Filesystem hierarchy; title: The many roots of the finder; title: Filesystem domains; title: The library; title: 3. The terminal and shell; title: Terminal overview; title: Mac-specific shell commands; title: Configuring and using bash; title: Using other shells; title: Shell scripts; title: Getting help; title: Editing text files; title: Part II: Essentials; title: 4. System startup and login; title: The hardware boot process; title: The operating system boot process; title: Logging in; title: Monitoring users; title: Logging out; title: Shutting down the system; title: 5. Users and groups; title: What is a user anyway?; title: Managing users; title: Nonhuman users; title: 6. Files and permissions; title: Finding files; title: File ownership; title: Type and creator codes; title: 7. Monitoring the system; title: About this Mac; title: System profiler; title: Monitoring system activity; title: Working with processes; title: 8. Scheduling tasks; title: Setting the time; title: Using iCal to schedule tasks; title: Using periodic; title: Cron; title: Changing periodic's execution time; title: 9. Preferences and defaults; title: Property lists; title: Where preferences are stored; title: Reading and writing preferences; title: Determining preference keys; title: 10. Disks and filesystems; title: Filesystems; title: Network-based filesystems; title: Disk utility; title: Erasing and formatting disks; title: Partitioning disks; title: Disk images; title: Creating a RAID; title: Part III: Advanced topics; title: 11. Open directory; title: Open directory in action; title: Directory services defined; title: Directory domains; title: The local domain and NetInfo; title: Configuring shared domains; title: Kerberos and single sign-on; title: Command-line open directory tools; title: 12. Printing; title: Print system overview; title: Managing printers; title: Adding and configuring printers; title: Anatomy of a print job; title: Printing from the command line; title: 13. Networking; title: The Internet protocol; title: Configuring IP addresses; title: Naming and DNS; title: Private networks and NAT; title: Routing; title: Active network connections; title: Appletalk; title: Locations; title: Using a dial-up connection; title: Virtual private networks; title: Firewalls; title: Internet connection sharing; title: 14. Network services; title: File sharing; title: Web sharing; title: Remote login; title: FTP access; title: sharing printers; title: Mail.