Section 8: administration and privileged commands
broctl – interactive shell for managing Bro installations Synopsis broctl [command] Description broctl is an interactive interface for managing either a standalone or a Bro cluster installation. If a broctl command is specified directly on the command-line, then broctl performs the action associated with that command immediately (instead of running the interactive interface). Before actually…
bro – passive network traffic analyzer Synopsis bro / [options] [file …] Description Bro is primarily a security monitor that inspects all traffic on a link in depth for signs of suspicious activity. More generally, however, Bro supports a wide range of traffic analysis tasks even outside of the security domain, including performance measurements and…
brltty_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the brltty processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the brltty processes via flexible mandatory access control. The brltty processes execute with the brltty_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…
bridge – show / manipulate bridge addresses and devices Synopsis bridge [ OPTIONS ] OBJECT { COMMAND | help } OBJECT := { link | fdb | mdb | vlan | monitor } OPTIONS := { -V[ersion] | -s[tatistics] | -n[etns] name | -b[atch] filename | -c[olor] | -p[retty] | -j[son] | -o[neline] } bridge…
bregex – Bacula’s ‘regex’ engine Synopsis bregex [options] -f <data-file> Description This manual page documents briefly the bregex command. This program can be useful for testing regex expressions to be applied against a list of filenames. Options A summary of options is included below. -? Show version and usage of program. -d nn Set debug level to nn….
brctl_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the brctl processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the brctl processes via flexible mandatory access control. The brctl processes execute with the brctl_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…
brctl – ethernet bridge administration Synopsis brctl [command] Description brctl is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the ethernet bridge configuration in the Linux kernel. An ethernet bridge is a device commonly used to connect different networks of ethernets together, so that these ethernets will appear as one ethernet to the participants. Each of…
br2684ctl – RFC1483/2684 Bridge Daemon Synopsis br2684ctl [ -b ] [[ -c n ] [ -e 0|1 ] [ -p 0|1 ] [ -s sndbuf ] [ -a [itf].vpi.vci ]] … Parameters -a [itf].vpi.vci ATM PVC number, VPI and VCI. (Required) -b Puts the process in the background. -c n br2684 interface number such as 0, 1, … (Required) -e 0|1 Encapsulation method:…
bpqparms – Configure BPQ ethernet devices. Synopsis bpqparms device [-a ethaddr] [-d ethaddr] [-vV] Description Bpqparms allows the setting of the BPQ Ethernet options for a particular device. Each BPQ Ethernet device appears as a device named bpq0…bpqN which overlays the original Ethernet device, usually eth0…ethN. This device is an AX.25 device driver and allows…
bpluginfo – Bacula Plugin information utility Synopsis bplufinfo [options] plugin_filename.so Description The main purpose of bpluginfo is to display different information about Bacula plugin. You can use it to check a plugin name, author, license and short description. You can use additional ‘-a’ option for validating a Bacula Daemons API. In most cases it is…
bpfc – a Berkeley Packet Filter assembler and compiler Synopsis bpfc { [options] | [source-file] } Description bpfc is a small Berkeley Packet Filter assembler and compiler which is able to translate BPF assembler-like mnemonics into a numerical or C-like format, that can be read by tools such as netsniff-ng, iptables (xt_bpf) and many others….
bounce – Postfix delivery status reports Synopsis bounce [generic Postfix daemon options] Description The bounce(8) daemon maintains per-message log files with delivery status information. Each log file is named after the queue file that it corresponds to, and is kept in a queue subdirectory named after the service name in the master.cf file (either bounce,…
bootparamd – boot parameter server Synopsis rpc.bootparamd [ -d ] [ -s ] [ -r router ] [ -f file ] [ -l ] Description bootparamd is a server process that provides information to diskless clients necessary for booting. It consults the /etc/bootparams file to find the information it needs. This version will allow the…
bootloader_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the bootloader processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the bootloader processes via flexible mandatory access control. The bootloader processes execute with the bootloader_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…
boothd – The Booth Cluster Ticket Manager. Synopsis boothd daemon [-SD] [-c config] [-l lockfile] booth list [-s site] [-c config] booth grant [-s site] [-c config] [-FCw] ticket booth revoke [-s site] [-c config] [-w] ticket booth peers [-s site] [-c config] booth status [-D] [-c config] Description Booth manages tickets which authorizes one…
booth-keygen – generate authentication key Synopsis booth-keygen [-h] [auth-file] Description This program generates an authentication key suitable for booth using /dev/urandom as source. Parameters auth-file The file to contain the generated key. Defaults to /etc/booth/authkey. Use absolute paths. Options -h, –help Print usage. Exit Status 0 Success. != 0 File already exists or some other…
booleans – Policy booleans enable runtime customization of SELinux policy Description This manual page describes SELinux policy booleans. The SELinux policy can include conditional rules that are enabled or disabled based on the current values of a set of policy booleans. These policy booleans allow runtime modification of the security policy without having to load…
bonnie++ – program to test hard drive performance. Synopsis bonnie++ [-d dir] [-c concurrency] [-s size(MiB)[:chunk-size(b)]] [-n number-to-stat(*1024)[:max-size[:min-size][:num-directories[:chunk-size]]]] [-m machine-name] [-r ram-size-in-MiB] [-x number-of-tests] [-u uid-to-use:gid-to-use] [-g gid-to-use] [-q] [-f size-for-char-io] [-b] [-D] [-p processes | -y p|s ] [-z seed-num|-Z random-file] Description This manual page documents briefly the bonnie++, program. Bonnie++ is a program…
boltd – thunderbolt device managing system daemon Synopsis boltd [OPTIONS] Description boltd is the thunderbolt device manager daemon. Its goal is to enable the secure and convenient use of thunderbolt devices by using the security features of modern thunderbolt controllers. It provides the org.freedesktop.bolt name on the system bus. boltd is autostarted via systemd/udev if…
boinc_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the boinc processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the boinc processes via flexible mandatory access control. The boinc processes execute with the boinc_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…