Section 8: administration and privileged commands
sysadm_dbusd_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the sysadm_dbusd processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the sysadm_dbusd processes via flexible mandatory access control. The sysadm_dbusd processes execute with the sysadm_dbusd_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…
sys-unconfig – shell script to reconfigure the system upon next boot Synopsis sys-unconfig Description sys-unconfig provides a simple method of reconfiguring a system in a new environment. Upon executing sys-unconfig will poweroff your system, and run firstboot at next boot. Files /.unconfigured The presence of this file will trigger firsboot. Notes This utility should not…
syntax-validate.pl – Directory Server perl script for validating attribute syntax. Synopsis syntax-validate.pl [-Z serverID] [-D rootdn] { -w password | -w – | -j filename } -b baseDN [-f filter] [-P protocol] [-v] [-h] Description Syntax validation checks every modification to attributes to make sure that the new value has the required syntax for that…
synergys – manual page for synergys 1.5.0, protocol version 1.3 Synopsis synergys [–address <address>] [–config <pathname>] [–daemon|–no-daemon] [–name <screen-name>] [–restart|–no-restart] [–debug <level>] Description Start the synergy mouse/keyboard sharing server. -a, –address <address> listen for clients on the given address. -c, –config <pathname> use the named configuration file instead. -d, –debug <level> filter out log messages…
synergyc – manual page for synergyc 1.5.0, protocol version 1.3 Synopsis synergyc [–yscroll <delta>] [–daemon|–no-daemon] [–name <screen-name>] [–restart|–no-restart] [–debug <level>] <server-address> Description Connect to a synergy mouse/keyboard sharing server. -d, –debug <level> filter out log messages with priority below level. level may be: FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, NOTE, INFO, DEBUG, DEBUGn (1-5). -n, –name <screen-name> use…
* Name sync_server – server side of the synchronization (replication) engine Synopsis sync_server [ -C config-file ] [ -p ssf ] Description Sync_server is the server side of the the replication system. It runs on the target (replica) system and listens for connections from sync_client which provides instructions for synchronizing the replica system with the…
* Name sync_reset – Account reset utility. DANGER. Synopsis sync_reset [ -C config-file ] [ -v ] [ -f ] Description Sync_reset is a small utility program to destroy user accounts on a system. The only safeguard which is in place is the obligary force option. Options -C config-file Read configuration options from config-file. -v…
* Name sync_client – client side of the synchronization (replication) engine Synopsis sync_client [ -v ] [ -l ] [ -z ] [ -C config-file ] [ -S servername ] [ -f input-file ] [ -F shutdown_file ] [ -w wait_interval ] [ -t timeout ] [ -d delay ] [ -r ] [ -u…
sync – synchronize data on disk with memory Synopsis sync [–help] [–version] Description sync writes any data buffered in memory out to disk. This can include (but is not limited to) modified superblocks, modified inodes, and delayed reads and writes. This must be implemented by the kernel; The sync program does nothing but exercise the…
sync-available – sync dpkg’s available database with apt’s database Synopsis sync-available sync-available –version sync-available –help Description This program updates the dpkg(8) available database with the data in the apt(8) package database. This is required for grep-available(1) and other similar programs to give up-to-date results. The same functionality is available through dselect(8), when it is configured…
synaptic – graphical management of software packages Synopsis synaptic [options] Description Synaptic is a frontend for the apt package managent system. It allows you to perform all actions of the command line tool apt-get in a graphical environemnt. This includes installing, upgrading, downgrading and removing of single packages or even upgrading your whole system. A…
symlinks – symbolic link maintenance utility Synopsis symlinks [ -cdorstv ] dirlist Description symlinks is a useful utility for maintainers of FTP sites, CDROMs, and Linux software distributions. It scans directories for symbolic links and lists them on stdout, often revealing flaws in the filesystem tree. Each link is output with a classification of relative,…
sybilsim — Cjdns packet switch Synopsis /usr/libexec/cjdns/sybilsim < config.json Description Sybilsim reads a list of nodes and peers from stdin and simulates the corresponding mesh without any actual networking using the same code as cjdroute. This is useful for testing and optimizing cjdroute. Every node must have a valid cjdns private key. The makekeys(1) utility…
switch_root – switch to another filesystem as the root of the mount tree Synopsis switch_root [-hV] switch_root newroot init [arg…] Description switch_root moves already mounted /proc, /dev, /sys and /run to newroot and makes newroot the new root filesystem and starts init process. WARNING: switch_root removes recursively all files and directories on the current root…
swift_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the swift processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the swift processes via flexible mandatory access control. The swift processes execute with the swift_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…
swat_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the swat processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the swat processes via flexible mandatory access control. The swat processes execute with the swat_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…
swapon, swapoff – enable/disable devices and files for paging and swapping Synopsis swapon [options] [specialfile…] swapoff [-va] [specialfile…] Description swapon is used to specify devices on which paging and swapping are to take place. The device or file used is given by the specialfile parameter. It may be of the form -L label or -U…
swapon, swapoff – enable/disable devices and files for paging and swapping Synopsis swapon [options] [specialfile…] swapoff [-va] [specialfile…] Description swapon is used to specify devices on which paging and swapping are to take place. The device or file used is given by the specialfile parameter. It may be of the form -L label or -U…
swaplabel – print or change the label or UUID of a swap area Synopsis swaplabel [-L label] [-U UUID] device Description swaplabel will display or change the label or UUID of a swap partition located on device (or regular file). If the optional arguments -L and -U are not given, swaplabel will simply display the…
svnserve_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the svnserve processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the svnserve processes via flexible mandatory access control. The svnserve processes execute with the svnserve_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…