Q:  Where can I find administrative information, error logs, etc. in NEXTSTEP?

Getting User Information

	console
	/usr/adm/messages
	NMI Monitor (NeXT hardware only)
	UNIX Accounting

Finding Information On-Line

	Digital Librarian - UNIX Manual Pages - NeXT Manuals Network and System Administration Developer Documentation User Documentation - Release Notes
	Header Files (in /usr/include)
	NeXTanswers
	UNIX man(1) command
	UNIX Manual Pages 1  User-level commands Commands used by ordinary UNIX users ls, vi, csh 2  System calls Low-level system facilities open(), pipe(), fork() 3  Library calls Higher-level, frequently-used facilities fopen(), printf(), malloc(), cos() 4  Device interfaces

Information about accessing, controlling (usually) I/O     devices
sg, sd, null
5  File formats
What various system files look like
aliases, Mach-O, dumpdates, fstab
6  Games
Not shipped
7  Miscellaneous
Stuff which belongs nowhere else
ASCII collating sequence, xroff macros
8  Maintenance commands
Commands used to administer the system
su, dump, ifconfig, ping

The UNIX File System and NFS

	Hierarchy
/	File system root directory

	bin	Standard binaries
	dev	/private/dev
	etc	/private/etc
	usr	User-related things
	bin	More binaries
	ucb	Berkeley extensions to V7
	etc	Other things (executable)
	adm	/private/adm
	lib	Libraries
	local	Local enhancements
	...
	private	Local files
	adm	Administrative stuff
	dev	Device special files
	etc	Local configuration files
	tmp	Temporary file storage
	...
	tmp	/private/tmp
	lib	More library stuff
	lost+found	Files fsck(8) "reconnected"

	File system integrity
	NFS -- the Network File System "Transparent" network file access Heterogeneous, multi-vendor (including non-UNIX) Mount options: rw, hard, bg, intr

QA417

Valid for 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1