System Administration
Digital UNIX Version 4.0B or higher, 1996

© Compaq Computer Corporation 1996. All Rights Reserved.


This guide describes the tasks you perform in order to maintain a Digital UNIX operating system running on an Alpha workstation or server. You use UNIX commands, scripts, and the SysMan graphical user interfaces to perform the system administration tasks described in this manual.


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