Section 8: administration and privileged commands
ettercap NG-0.7.3 – A multipurpose sniffer/content filter for man in the middle attacks ***** Important Note ****** Since ettercap NG (formerly 0.7.0), all the options have been changed. Even the target specification has been changed. Please read carefully this man page. Synopsis ettercap [OPTIONS] [TARGET1] [TARGET2] TARGET is in the form MAC/IPs/PORTs where IPs and…
ethtool – query or control network driver and hardware settings Synopsis ethtool devname ethtool -h|–help ethtool –version ethtool -a|–show-pause devname ethtool -A|–pause devname [ autoneg on|off] [rx on|off] [tx on|off] ethtool -c|–show-coalesce devname ethtool -C|–coalesce devname [ adaptive-rx on|off] [adaptive-tx on|off] [rx-usecs N] [rx-frames N] [rx-usecs-irq N] [rx-frames-irq N] [tx-usecs N] [tx-frames N] [tx-usecs-irq N] [tx-frames-irq N] [stats-block-usecs N] [pkt-rate-low N] [rx-usecs-low N] [rx-frames-low N] [tx-usecs-low N] [tx-frames-low N] [pkt-rate-high N] [rx-usecs-high N] [rx-frames-high N] [tx-usecs-high N] [tx-frames-high N]…
ether-wake – A tool to send a Wake-On-LAN "Magic Packet" Synopsis ether-wake [options] Host-ID Description This manual page documents the usage of the ether-wake command. ether-wake is a program that generates and transmits a Wake-On-LAN (WOL) "Magic Packet", used for restarting machines that have been soft-powered-down (ACPI D3-warm state). It generates the standard AMD Magic…
etckeeper – store /etc in git, mercurial, bazaar, or darcs Synopsis etckeeper command [-d directory] Description etckeeper manages /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, bazaar, or darcs repository. By default each of the commands operates on /etc, but a different directory can be specified to operate on a clone of the /etc repository located…
etapro – Driver for ETA UPS equipment Note This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the etapro driver. For information about the core driver, see nutupsdrv(8). Supported Hardware This driver supports ETA UPS equipment with the "PRO" option for smart mode. Extra Arguments This driver does not support any extra settings in the…
esi – get or set the end system identifier (ESI) Synopsis esi [itf] esi [-f] esi [itf] esi -V Description esi is used to show or set the end system identifier (ESI, a unique six-byte number corresponding to the MAC address of LAN technologies like Ethernet) of an ATM interface. If the interface number itf is omitted,…
error – Postfix error/retry mail delivery agent Synopsis error [generic Postfix daemon options] Description The Postfix error(8) delivery agent processes delivery requests from the queue manager. Each request specifies a queue file, a sender address, the reason for non-delivery (specified as the next-hop destination), and recipient information. The reason may be prefixed with an RFC…
era_restore – restore era metadata file to device or file. Synopsis era_restore [options] -i {xml file} -o {device|file} Description era_restore restores era metadata created by the respective device-mapper target dumped into an XML formatted (see era_dump(8)) file, which optionally can be preprocessed before the restore to another device or file. If restored to a metadata…
era_invalidate – Provide a list of blocks that have changed since a particular era. Synopsis era_invalidate [options] {device|file} Description era_invalidate examines era metadata and lists blocks that may have changed since a given era. This tool cannot be run on live metadata unless the –metadata-snap option is used. Options -h, –help Print help and exit….
era_dump – dump era metadata from device or file to standard output. Synopsis era_dump [options] {device|file} Description era_dump dumps binary era metadata created by the device-mapper era target on a device or file to standard output for analysis or postprocessing in XML format. XML formated metadata can be fed into era_restore (see era_restore(8)) in order…
era_check – validate era metadata on device or file. Synopsis era_check [options] {device|file} Description era_check checks era metadata created by the device-mapper era target on a device or file. This tool cannot be run on live metadata. Options -h, –help Print help and exit. -V, –version Print version information and exit. -q, –quiet Suppress output…
epylog – Syslog new log notifier and parser. Synopsis epylog [-c epylog.conf] [-d LOGLEVEL] [–last PERIOD] [–store-offsets] [–quiet] [–cron] Description Epylog is a new log notifier and parser which runs periodically out of cron, looks at your logs, processes the entries in order to present them in a more comprehensive format, and then provides you with the…
entropyd_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the entropyd processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the entropyd processes via flexible mandatory access control. The entropyd processes execute with the entropyd_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…
elogd – web server program for Electronic Logbook ELOG Synopsis elog [ -C url ] [ -c file ] [ -D ] [ -d directory ] [ -f file ] [ -k ] [ -l logbook ] [ -M ] [ -m ] [ -n hostname ] [ -p port ] [ -S ] […
efibootmgr – manipulate the UEFI Boot Manager Synopsis efibootmgr [ -a ] [ -A ] [ -b XXXX ] [ -r | -y ] [ -B ] [ -c ] [ -d DISK ] [ -D ] [ -e 1|3|-1 ] [ -E NUM ] [ -g ] [ -i NAME ] [ -l NAME…
efibootdump – dump a boot entries from a variable or a file Synopsis efibootdump [-?|–help] [–usage] [-f <file1> [… -f <fileN>]] [[-g {guid}] <name0> [… [<nameN>]]] Description efibootdump is a userspace application used to display individual UEFI boot options, from a file or a UEFI variable. This allows e.g. saved files from efivarfs to be…
edquota – edit user quotas Synopsis edquota [ -p protoname ] [ -u | -g ] [ -rm ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] username… edquota [ -u | -g ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -t edquota [ -u | -g ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -T…
edg-mkgridmap – a tool to build the grid-mapfile Synopsis edg-mkgridmap [–help] [–version] [–conf=config_file] [–output[=output_file]] [–quiet] [–verbose] [–safe] [–nosafe] [–cache] [–nocache] [–proxy] [–noproxy] [–usermode] Description edg-mkgridmap is a tool to build the grid-mapfile from VO servers, taking into account both VO and local policies. Configuration edg-mkgridmap.conf file contains configuration information for edg-mkgridmap. The syntax of the edg-mkgridmap.conf file is discussed…
edac-ctl – EDAC admin utility Synopsis edac-ctl [OPTION]… Description The edac-ctl program is a perl(1) script which performs some useful administration tasks for EDAC (Error Detection and Correction) drivers. Options –help Display a brief usage message. –quiet Quiet operation. –mainboard Print mainboard vendor and model for this hardware, if available. This option requires that the…
ecryptfsd – user-space eCryptfs daemon. Description ecryptfsd is a userspace daemon that runs as the user performing file operations under the eCryptfs mount point. It services public key requests from the eCryptfs kernel module; these requests are sent via /dev/ecryptfs on file open events. ecryptfsd only needs to be run when a mount is done…