Section 8: administration and privileged commands
setpci – configure PCI devices Synopsis setpci [options] devices operations… Description setpci is a utility for querying and configuring PCI devices. All numbers are entered in hexadecimal notation. Root privileges are necessary for almost all operations, excluding reads of the standard header of the configuration space on some operating systems. Please see lspci(8) for details…
setlogcons – Send kernel messages to console N Synopsis setlogcons N Description The command setlogcons N sets all kernel messges to the console specified as N. By default kernel messages are sent to the current console. To change the level of messages sent, use dmesg Authors setlogcons was originally written by Andries Brouwer for the…
setkeycodes – load kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries Synopsis setkeycodes scancode keycode … Description The setkeycodes command reads its arguments two at a time, each pair of arguments consisting of a scancode (given in hexadecimal) and a keycode (given in decimal). For each such pair, it tells the kernel keyboard driver to map the specified…
setkey_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the setkey processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the setkey processes via flexible mandatory access control. The setkey processes execute with the setkey_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…
setkey – manually manipulate the IPsec SA/SP database Synopsis setkey [-knrv ] file … setkey [-knrv ] –c setkey [-krv ] –f filename setkey [-aklPrv ] –D setkey [-Pvp ] –F setkey [-H ] –x setkey [-?V ] Description setkey adds, updates, dumps, or flushes Security Association Database (SAD) entries as well as Security Policy…
sethdlc – get/set Linux HDLC packet radio modem driver port information Synopsis sethdlc [ -bdhs ] [-i device] sethdlc [-i device] -c cal sethdlc -p [-i device] [ mode mode ] [ io iobase ] [ irq irq ] [ dma dma ] [ dma2 dma2 ] [ serio seriobase ] [ pario pariobase ] [ midiio midiiobase ] [ options options ] sethdlc -a [-i device] [ txd txdelay ] [ txtail txtail ] [ slot slottime ] [ ppersist ppersistence ] [ full ] [ half ] Description sethdlc is a program designed to set and/or…
setfont – load EGA/VGA console screen font Synopsis setfont [-O font+umap.orig] [-o font.orig] [-om cmap.orig] [-ou umap.orig] [–N] [font.new …] [-m cmap] [-u umap] [-C console] [-hH] [-v] [-V] Description The setfont command reads a font from the file font.new and loads it into the EGA/VGA character generator, and optionally outputs the previous font. It…
setfiles_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the setfiles processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the setfiles processes via flexible mandatory access control. The setfiles processes execute with the setfiles_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…
setfiles_mac_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the setfiles_mac processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the setfiles_mac processes via flexible mandatory access control. The setfiles_mac processes execute with the setfiles_mac_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…
setfiles – set SELinux file security contexts. Synopsis setfiles [-c policy] [-d] [-l] [-n] [-e directory] [-o filename] [-p] [-q] [-s] [-v] [-W] [-F] spec_file pathname… Description This manual page describes the setfiles program. This program is primarily used to initialize the security context fields (extended attributes) on one or more filesystems (or parts of…
setenforce – modify the mode SELinux is running in Synopsis setenforce [Enforcing|Permissive|1|0] Description Use Enforcing or 1 to put SELinux in enforcing mode. Use Permissive or 0 to put SELinux in permissive mode. If SELinux is disabled and you want to enable it, or SELinux is enabled and you want to disable it, please see…
setcap – set file capabilities Synopsis setcap [-q] [-n <rootuid>] [-v] {capabilities|-|-r} filename [ … capabilitiesN fileN ] Description In the absence of the -v (verify) option setcap sets the capabilities of each specified filename to the capabilities specified. The optional -n <rootuid> argument can be used to set the file capability for use only…
setarch – change reported architecture in new program environment and/or set personality flags Synopsis setarch [arch] [options] [program [argument…]] setarch –list|-h|-V arch [options] [program [argument…]] Description setarch modifies execution domains and process personality flags. The execution domains currently only affects the output of uname -m. For example, on an AMD64 system, running setarch i386 program…
sestatus – SELinux status tool Synopsis sestatus [-v] [-b] This tool is used to get the status of a system running SELinux. Description This manual page describes the sestatus program. This tool is used to get the status of a system running SELinux. It displays data about whether SELinux is enabled or disabled, location of…
services_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the services processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the services processes via flexible mandatory access control. Nsswitch Domain File Contexts SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to lsP Policy governs…
services_munin_plugin_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the services_munin_plugin processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the services_munin_plugin processes via flexible mandatory access control. The services_munin_plugin processes execute with the services_munin_plugin_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…
service – run a System V init script Synopsis service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS] service –status-all service –help | -h | –version Description service runs a System V init script or systemd unit in as predictable an environment as possible, removing most environment variables and with the current working directory set to /. The SCRIPT parameter…
ser2net – Serial to network proxy Synopsis ser2net [-c configfile] [-C configline] [-p controlport] [-n] [-d] [-b] [-v] [-P pidfile] Description The ser2net daemon allows telnet and tcp sessions to be established with a unit’s serial ports. The program comes up normally as a daemon, opens the TCP ports specified in the configuration file, and…
sepolicy – SELinux Policy Inspection tool Synopsis sepolicy [-h] [-P policy_path ] {booleans,communicate,generate,interface,manpage,network,transition} OPTIONS Arguments: booleans Query SELinux policy to see description of booleans sepolicy-boolean(8) communicate Query SELinux policy to see if domains can communicate with each other sepolicy-communicate(8) generate Generate SELinux Policy module template gui Launch Graphical User Interface for SELinux Policy, requires policycoreutils-gui…
sepolicy-transition – Examine the SELinux Policy and generate a process transition report Synopsis sepolicy transition [-h] -s SOURCE sepolicy transition [-h] -s SOURCE -t TARGET Description sepolicy transition will show all domains that a give SELinux source domain can transition to, including the entrypoint. If a target domain is given, sepolicy transition will examine policy…