Section 8: administration and privileged commands
logwatch_mail_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the logwatch_mail processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the logwatch_mail processes via flexible mandatory access control. The logwatch_mail processes execute with the logwatch_mail_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
logwatch – system log analyzer and reporter Synopsis logwatch [–detail level ] [–logfile log-file-group ] [–service service-name ] [–mailto address ] [–archives] [–range range ] [–debug level ] [–filename file-name ] [–logdir directory ] [–hostlimit hosts ] [–hostname hostname ] [–html_wrap number of characters ] [–hostformat host based options ] [–output output-type ] [–format report…
logtail2 – print log file lines that have not been read Synopsis logtail2 [-t] -flogfile [-ooffsetfile] Description logtail2 reads a specified file (usually a log file) and writes to the standard output that part of it which has not been read by previous runs of logtail2. It prints the appropriate number of bytes from the…
logtail – print log file lines that have not been read Synopsis logtail [-t] -flogfile [-ooffsetfile] Description logtail reads a specified file (usually a log file) and writes to the standard output that part of it which has not been read by previous runs of logtail. It prints the appropriate number of bytes from the…
logsave – save the output of a command in a logfile Synopsis logsave [ -asv ] logfile cmd_prog [ … ] Description The logsave program will execute cmd_prog with the specified argument(s), and save a copy of its output to logfile. If the containing directory for logfile does not exist, logsave will accumulate the output…
logrotate_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the logrotate processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the logrotate processes via flexible mandatory access control. The logrotate processes execute with the logrotate_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
logrotate_mail_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the logrotate_mail processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the logrotate_mail processes via flexible mandatory access control. The logrotate_mail processes execute with the logrotate_mail_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
logrotate – rotates, compresses, and mails system logs Synopsis logrotate [–force] [–debug] [–state file] [–skip-state-lock] [–verbose] [–log file] [–mail command] config_file [config_file2 …] Description logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be…
logresolve – Resolve IP-addresses to hostnames in Apache log files Synopsis logresolve [ –s filename ] [ –c ] < access_log > access_log.new Summary logresolve is a post-processing program to resolve IP-addresses in Apache’s access logfiles. To minimize impact on your nameserver, logresolve has its very own internal hash-table cache. This means that…
logd – job output logging daemon Synopsis logd [OPTION]… Description logd is started by init(8) to receive the output of jobs with console logged in their job definition, which is the default if no other console setting is given. Output is timestamped and written, with the job name, to /var/log/boot or stored in memory until…
logcheck – program to scan system logs for interesting lines Synopsis logcheck [ OPTIONS ] Description The logcheck program helps spot problems and security violations in your logfiles automatically and will send the results to you periodically in an e-mail. By default logcheck runs as an hourly cronjob just off the hour and after every…
logadm_r – Log administrator role – Security Enhanced Linux Policy Description SELinux supports Roles Based Access Control (RBAC), some Linux roles are login roles, while other roles need to be transition into. Note: Examples in this man page will use the staff_u SELinux user. Non login roles are usually used for administrative tasks. For example,…
log_db_daemon – Database logging daemon for Squid Synopsis log_db_daemon DSN [options] Descriptoin This program writes Squid access.log entries to a database. Presently only accepts the squid native format DSN Database DSN encoded as a path. This is sent as the access_log file path. Sample configuration: access_log daemon:/host/database/table/username/password squid to leave a parameter unspecified use a…
lockdev_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the lockdev processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the lockdev processes via flexible mandatory access control. The lockdev processes execute with the lockdev_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
Lockdev is a setgid binary, which provides a reliable way to put an exclusive lock in /var/lock to devices (e.g. ttyS0) using both FSSTND and SVr4 methods, so regular users don’t need write access there. This task is achieved through calls to the liblockdev(3) API. Synopsis /usr/sbin/lockdev [<operation>] <device> Description The lockdev command can perform…
locate_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the locate processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the locate processes via flexible mandatory access control. The locate processes execute with the locate_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
locale-gen — generates localisation files from templates Synopsis locale-gen Description This manual page documents briefly the locale-gen command. By default, the locale package which provides the base support for localisation of libc-based programs does not contain usable localisation files for every supported language. This limitation has became necessary because of the substantial size of such…
local_login_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the local_login processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the local_login processes via flexible mandatory access control. The local_login processes execute with the local_login_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
local – Postfix local mail delivery Synopsis local [generic Postfix daemon options] Description The local(8) daemon processes delivery requests from the Postfix queue manager to deliver mail to local recipients. Each delivery request specifies a queue file, a sender address, a domain or host to deliver to, and one or more recipients. This program expects…
loadunimap – load the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table Synopsis loadunimap [ -C console ] [ -o oldmap ] [ map ] Description The loadunimap command is obsolete – its function is now built-in into setfont(8). However, for backwards compatibility it is still available as a separate command. The program loadunimap loads the specified map in…