"Inside Mac OS X's core"--Cover.
Part I: Getting started
1. Where it all came from
The classic Mac OS
System 7
Copland
NEXTSTEP
Rhapsody
Continued development of the classic Mac OS
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS 10.1
Mac OS 10.2 jaguar
Mac OS X panther
What does the future hold?
2. Lay of the land
Filesystem hierarchy
The many roots of the finder
Filesystem domains
The library
3. The terminal and shell
Terminal overview
Mac-specific shell commands
Configuring and using bash
Using other shells
Shell scripts
Getting help
Editing text files
Part II: Essentials
4. System startup and login
The hardware boot process
The operating system boot process
Logging in
Monitoring users
Logging out
Shutting down the system
5. Users and groups
What is a user anyway?
Managing users
Nonhuman users
6. Files and permissions
Finding files
File ownership
Type and creator codes
7. Monitoring the system
About this Mac
-System profiler
Monitoring system activity
Working with processes
8. Scheduling tasks
Setting the time
Using iCal to schedule tasks
Using periodic
Cron
Changing periodic's execution time
9. Preferences and defaults
Property lists
Where preferences are stored
Reading and writing preferences
Determining preference keys
10. Disks and filesystems
Filesystems
Network-based filesystems
Disk utility
Erasing and formatting disks
Partitioning disks
Disk images
Creating a RAID
Part III: Advanced topics
11. Open directory
Open directory in action
Directory services defined
Directory domains
The local domain and NetInfo
Configuring shared domains
Kerberos and single sign-on
Command-line open directory tools
12. Printing
Print system overview
Managing printers
Adding and configuring printers
Anatomy of a print job
Printing from the command line
13. Networking
The Internet protocol
-Configuring IP addresses
Naming and DNS
Private networks and NAT
Routing
Active network connections
Appletalk
Locations
Using a dial-up connection
Virtual private networks
Firewalls
Internet connection sharing
14. Network services
File sharing
Web sharing
Remote login
FTP access
sharing printers
Mail.
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Running Mac OS X Panther by James Duncan Davidson. ISBN 0596005008. Published by O'Reilly in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
