Section 8: administration and privileged commands
update-fonts-alias – compile fonts.alias files Synopsis update-fonts-alias [OPTION] directory … Description update-fonts-alias assembles a fonts.alias file in an X font directory using one or more alias files found in a subdirectory of /etc/X11/fonts/. It is typically invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of a package containing X Window System fonts that provide aliases…
update-updmap – generate updmap.cfg files for all the system trees Synopsis update-updmap [option … ] Description This manual page documents update-updmap, a program that was written for the Debian distribution. Overview update-updmap is used to generate updmap(1)Ns’s and updmap-sys8Ns’s configurations files /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-TEXLIVEDIST which is the link target of /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg and /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN which is the link…
update-language, update-fmtutil, update-fmtlang – update various TeX-related configuration files Synopsis update-language [options] update-fmtutil [options] Description This manual page explains briefly the usage of the three TeX configuration update programs update-language and update-fmtutil. The update-fontlang script should not be called directly, but only via the two described links. For a more in-depth description, please see the…
update-dictcommon-hunspell – rebuild hunspell database and emacsen stuff Synopsis update-dictcommon-hunspell Description WARNING: Not to be used from the command line unless you know very well what you are doing. This script, when called from hunspell dict package postinst or postrm will rebuild hunspell database as well as squirrelmail and emacsen stuff. See Also The dictionaries-common…
update-dictcommon-aspell – rebuild aspell database and emacsen stuff Synopsis update-dictcommon-aspell Description WARNING: Not to be used from the command line unless you know very well what you are doing. This script, when called from aspell dict package postinst or postrm will rebuild aspell database as well as squirrelmail, jed and emacsen stuff. See Also The…
update-default-wordlist – update default wordlist Synopsis update-default-wordlist [–skip-symlinks] [–triggered] Description WARNING: Not to be used from the command line unless you know very well what you are doing. This program is intended to be called from wordlist package postinst, from select-default-wordlist or from dictionaries-common postinst. When called under dpkg control with the –trigger option the…
update-default-ispell – update default ispell dictionary Synopsis update-default-ispell [–skip-symlinks] [–triggered] Description WARNING: Not to be used from the command line unless you know very well what you are doing. This program is intended to be called from ispell dictionary package postinst, from select-default-ispell or from dictionaries-common postinst. When called under dpkg control with the –trigger…
update-dictcommon-aspell – rebuild aspell database and emacsen stuff Synopsis update-dictcommon-aspell Description WARNING: Not to be used from the command line unless you know very well what you are doing. This script, when called from aspell dict package postinst or postrm will rebuild aspell database as well as squirrelmail, jed and emacsen stuff. See Also The…
update-crypto-policies – manage the policies available to the various cryptographic back-ends. Synopsis update-crypto-policies [COMMAND] Description update-crypto-policies(8) is used to set the policy applicable for the various cryptographic back-ends, such as SSL/TLS libraries. That will be the default policy used by these back-ends unless the application user configures them otherwise. The available policies are restricted to…
update-cracklib – Regenerate cracklib dictionary Synopsis update-cracklib Description update-cracklib builds a compressed and accumulated version of wordlists stored in the directories given in cracklib’s configuration file /etc/cracklib/cracklib.conf. Programs using cracklib2 need this database to be of any use. By default this script is called by cron every day. Result update-cracklib prints out two numbers: the…
update-catalog – create or update entry in SGML catalog file Synopsis update-catalog [options] –add centralized_catalog ordinary_catalog update-catalog [options] –remove centralized_catalog ordinary_catalog update-catalog [options] –update-super Description update-catalog inserts, updates or removes entries in the SGML centralized catalogs located in /etc/sgml. To change the SGML super catalog located in /etc/sgml/catalog modify the directory contents of /etc/sgml to…
update-ca-trust – manage consolidated and dynamic configuration of CA certificates and associated trust Synopsis update-ca-trust [COMMAND] Description update-ca-trust(8) is used to manage a consolidated and dynamic configuration feature of Certificate Authority (CA) certificates and associated trust. The feature is available for new applications that read the consolidated configuration files found in the /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted directory or…
update-ca-certificates – update /etc/ssl/certs and ca-certificates.crt Synopsis update-ca-certificates [options] Description This manual page documents briefly the update-ca-certificates command. update-ca-certificates is a program that updates the directory /etc/ssl/certs to hold SSL certificates and generates ca-certificates.crt, a concatenated single-file list of certificates. It reads the file /etc/ca-certificates.conf. Each line gives a pathname of a CA certificate under…
update-binfmts – maintain registry of executable binary formats Synopsis update\-binfmts [options ] –-install name path spec update\-binfmts [options ] –-remove name path update\-binfmts [options ] –-import [name ] update\-binfmts [options ] –-unimport [name ] update\-binfmts [options ] –-display [name ] update\-binfmts [options ] –-enable [name ] update\-binfmts [options ] –-disable [name ] update\-binfmts [options ]…
update-apt-xapian-index – rebuild the Apt Xapian Index Synopsis update-apt-xapian-index [options] Description Rebuild the Apt Xapian index Options –version show program’s version number and exit -h, –help show this help message and exit -q, –quiet quiet mode: only output fatal errors -v, –verbose verbose mode -f, –force force database rebuild even if it’s already up to…
unmkinitramfs – extract content from an initramfs image Synopsis unmkinitramfs [-v] initramfs-file directory unmkinitramfs -h Description The unmkinitramfs command extracts the content of a given initramfs image using cpio. If the image contains multiple segments, each are passed to cpio in order. Options -h Display usage information and exit. -v Display verbose messages about extraction….
unix_update – Helper binary that updates the password of a given user Synopsis unix_update […] Description unix_update is a helper program for the pam_unix module that updates the password of a given user. It is not intended to be run directly from the command line and logs a security violation if done so. The purpose…
unix_chkpwd – Helper binary that verifies the password of the current user Synopsis unix_chkpwd […] Description unix_chkpwd is a helper program for the pam_unix module that verifies the password of the current user. It also checks password and account expiration dates in shadow. It is not intended to be run directly from the command line…
unhide — forensic tool to find hidden processes Synopsis unhide [OPTIONS] TEST_LIST unhide-posix proc | sys Description unhide is a forensic tool to find processes hidden by rootkits, Linux kernel modules or by other techniques. It detects hidden processes using six techniques. Options Options are only available for unhide-linux not for unhide-posix. -d Do a…
unhide-tcp — forensic tool to find hidden TCP/UDP ports Synopsis unhide-tcp [options] Description unhide-tcp is a forensic tool that identifies TCP/UDP ports that are listening but are not listed by /sbin/ss (or alternatively by /bin/netstat) through brute forcing of all TCP/UDP ports available. Note1 : On FreeBSD ans OpenBSD, netstat is allways used as iproute2…