Section 8: administration and privileged commands
fcgistarter – Start a FastCGI program Synopsis fcgistarter –c command –p port [ –i interface ] –N num Summary Note Currently only works on Unix systems. Options -c command Absolute path of the FastCGI program -p port Port which the program will listen on -i interface Interface which…
fbset – show and modify frame buffer device settings Synopsis fbset [options] [mode] Description This documentation is out of date!! fbset is a system utility to show or change the settings of the frame buffer device. The frame buffer device provides a simple and unique interface to access different kinds of graphic displays. Frame buffer…
faxrunqd – daemon to send fax jobs queued by faxspool(1) Synopsis faxrunqd [-v] [-d] [-l <ttys>] [-u <user>] [-V] Description Runs in the background, and regularily checks the fax queue set up by faxspool(1). Sends all jobs that are due, records results, and takes appropriate action (notify mails etc). faxrunqd basically does the same as…
faxq-helper – privileged helper process to access the fax queue Synopsis faxq-helper <command> [<options>] Description faxq-helper is part of the internal workings of faxspool(1). Formerly, the /var/spool/fax/outgoing directory was world-writeable, leading to all sort of funny symlink attacks against faxspool(1) and faxrunq(8). These days, it’s owned by the user “fax”, and only this user can…
fatlabel – set or get MS-DOS filesystem label or volume ID Synopsis fatlabel [OPTIONS] DEVICE [NEW] Description fatlabel will display or change the volume label or volume ID on the MS-DOS filesystem located on DEVICE. By default it works in label mode. It can be switched to volume ID mode with the option -i or…
fanctl – fan bridge administration Synopsis fanctl up [<options>…] fanctl down [<options>…] fanctl up -a fanctl down -a fanctl down -e fanctl show fanctl help Description fanctl is used to set up, tear down, and inspect Fan bridge mappings and devices in the linux kernel. NOTE: Future versions of the commands will make fanatic the…
fancontrol – automated software based fan speed regulation Synopsis fancontrol [configfile] Description fancontrol is a shell script for use with lm_sensors. It reads its configuration from a file, then calculates fan speeds from temperatures and sets the corresponding PWM outputs to the computed values. Warning Please be careful when using the fan control features of…
fanatic – fan bridge configuration and test wizard Synopsis fanatic [<cmd> [<arg> …]] fanatic configure fanatic deconfigure fanatic test Description fanatic is the configuration and test wizard for Fan networking. It is designed to simplify the process of configuring persistent Fan bridges. It will also configure both LXD and Docker to use those bridges as…
faillog – display faillog records or set login failure limits Synopsis faillog [options] Description faillog displays the contents of the failure log database (/var/log/faillog). It can also set the failure counters and limits. When faillog is run without arguments, it only displays the faillog records of the users who had a login failure. Options The…
faillock – Tool for displaying and modifying the authentication failure record files Synopsis faillock [–dir /path/to/tally-directory] [–user username] [–reset] Description The pam_faillock.so module maintains a list of failed authentication attempts per user during a specified interval and locks the account in case there were more than deny consecutive failed authentications. It stores the failure records into per-user…
fail2ban_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the fail2ban processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the fail2ban processes via flexible mandatory access control. The fail2ban processes execute with the fail2ban_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…
fail2ban_client_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the fail2ban_client processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the fail2ban_client processes via flexible mandatory access control. The fail2ban_client processes execute with the fail2ban_client_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…
facter – Gather system information Synopsis Collect and display facts about the system. Usage facter [-h|–help] [-t|–timing] [-d|–debug] [-p|–puppet] [-v|–version] [-y|–yaml] [-j|–json] [–plaintext] [–external-dir DIR] [–no-external-dir] [fact] [fact] […] Description Collect and display facts about the current system. The library behind Facter is easy to expand, making Facter an easy way to collect information about…
f2fscrypt – f2fs filesystem encryption utility Synopsis f2fscrypt add_key -S [ -k keyring ] [-v] [-q] [ path … ] f2fscrypt new_session f2fscrypt get_policy path … f2fscrypt set_policy policy path … Description f2fscrypt performs encryption management for f2fs file systems. Commands f2fscrypt add_key -S [ -k keyring ] [-v] [-q] [ path … ] Prompts…
ez-ipupdate – dynamic DNS client Synopsis ez-ipupdate [options] Description This manual page documents briefly the ez-ipupdate dynamic DNS client. Options ez-ipupdate follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-‘). -a, –address <ip address> string to send as your ip address -b, –cache-file <file> file to use for caching…
extlookup2hiera Converter for extlookup CSV files into Hiera JSON and YAML files -i, –in FILE Input CSV file -o, –out FILE Output Hiera file -j, –json Create JSON format file
ext_wbinfo_group_acl – external ACL helper for Squid to verify NT Domain group membership using wbinfo. Synopsis ext_wbinfo_group_acl [-dhK] Description ext_wbinfo_group_acl is an installed executable script. It uses wbinfo from Samba to lookup group membership of logged in users. This helper must be used in with an authentication scheme (typically Basic or NTLM) based on Windows…
ext_unix_group_acl – Squid UNIX Group ACL helper Synopsis ext_unix_group_acl [-d] [-g group ] [-g group …] [-p] [-s] Description ext_unix_group_acl allows Squid to base access controls on users memberships in UNIX groups. Options -d Write debug info to stderr. -g group Specifies a group name to match. -p Also match the users primary group from…
ext_time_quota_acl – Squid time quota external acl helper. Version 1.0 Synopsis ext_time_quota_acl [-b database] [-l logfile] [-d] [-p pauselen] [-h] configfile Description ext_time_quota_acl allows an administrator to define time budgets for the users of squid to limit the time using squid. This is useful for corporate lunch time allocations, wifi portal pay-per-minute installations or for…
ext_session_acl – Squid session tracking external acl helper. Version 1.2 Synopsis ext_session_acl [-t timeout ] [-b database ] [-a] Description ext_session_acl maintains a concept of sessions by monitoring requests and timing out sessions. The timeout is based either on idle use ( -t ) or a fixed period of time ( -T ). The former…