Section 8: administration and privileged commands
sealert – setroubleshoot client tool Synopsis sealert [-b] [-f local_id] [-h] [-s] [-S] [-l id] [-a file] [-u] [-p] [-P plugin_name] Description This manual page describes the sealert program. sealert is the user interface component (either GUI or command line) to the setroubleshoot system. setroubleshoot is used to diagnose SELinux denials and attempts to provide…
sdparm – access SCSI modes pages; read VPD pages; send simple SCSI commands. Synopsis sdparm [–all] [–clear=STR] [–command=CMD] [–dbd] [–defaults] [–dummy] [–flexible] [–get=STR] [–help] [–hex] [–inquiry] [–long] [–num-desc] [–page=PG[,SPG]] [–quiet] [–readonly] [–save] [–set=STR] [–six] [–transport=TN] [–vendor=VN] [–verbose] [–version] DEVICE [DEVICE…] sdparm –enumerate [–all] [–inquiry] [–long] [–page=PG[,SPG]] [–transport=TN] [–vendor=VN] sdparm –wscan [–verbose] Description This utility fetches…
scsi_temperature – fetch the temperature of a SCSI device Synopsis scsi_temperature [–help] [–verbose] DEVICE [DEVICE]* Description This bash shell script calls the sg_logs utility on each given DEVICE in order to find the device’s temperature. The Temperature log page is checked first and if it is not available then the Informational Exceptions log page is…
scsi_stop – stop (spin down) one or more SCSI disks Synopsis scsi_stop [–help] [–verbose] [–wait] DEVICE [DEVICE]* Description This bash shell script calls the sg_start utility on each given DEVICE. The purpose is to spin down (stop) each given DEVICE. Options Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well. -h, –help print…
scsi_start – start one or more SCSI disks Synopsis scsi_start [–help] [–verbose] [–wait] DEVICE [DEVICE]* Description This bash shell script calls the sg_start utility on each given DEVICE. The purpose is to spin up (start) each given DEVICE. Options Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well. -h, –help print out the…
scsi_satl – check SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) device support Synopsis scsi_satl [–help] [–log] [–quiet] [–verbose] DEVICE Description This bash shell script calls several SCSI commands on the given DEVICE that is assumed to be an ATA device behind a SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) layer (SATL). The results of each test and a pass/fail…
scsi_ready – do SCSI TEST UNIT READY on devices Synopsis scsi_ready [–brief] [–help] [–verbose] DEVICE [DEVICE]* Description This bash shell script calls the sg_turs utility on each given DEVICE. This will send a SCSI TEST UNIT READY command to each DEVICE. Disks, tape drives and DVD/BD players amongst others may respond to this SCSI command….
scsi_readcap – do SCSI READ CAPACITY command on disks Synopsis scsi_readcap [–brief] [–help] [–long] [–verbose] DEVICE [DEVICE]* Description This bash shell script calls the sg_readcap utility on each given DEVICE. This will send a SCSI READ CAPACITY command to each DEVICE. The default action of this script is to send the 10 byte cdb READ…
scsi_mandat – check SCSI device support for mandatory commands Synopsis scsi_mandat [–help] [–log] [–quiet] [–verbose] DEVICE Description This bash shell script calls several SCSI commands on the given DEVICE. These SCSI commands are considered mandatory (although that varies a little depending on which standard/draft the DEVICE complies with). The results of each test and a…
scsi_logging_level – access Linux SCSI logging level information Synopsis scsi_logging_level [–all=LEV] [–create] [–error=LEV] [–get] [–help] [–highlevel=LEV] [–hlcomplete=LEV] [–hlqueue=LEV] [–ioctl=LEV] [–llcomplete=LEV] [–llqueue=LEV] [–lowlevel=LEV] [–midlevel=LEV] [–mlcomplete=LEV] [–mlqueue=LEV] [–scan=LEV] [–set] [–timeout=LEV] [–version] Description This bash shell script accesses the Linux SCSI subsystem logging level. The current values can be shown (e.g. with –get) or changed (e.g. with –set)….
scsi_id – retrieve and generate a unique SCSI identifier Synopsis scsi_id [options] Description scsi_id queries a SCSI device via the SCSI INQUIRY vital product data (VPD) page 0x80 or 0x83 and uses the resulting data to generate a value that is unique across all SCSI devices that properly support page 0x80 or page 0x83. If…
scsi_ch_swp – change SCSI Software WRITE Protect and block device settings Synopsis scsi_ch_swp [–help] [–set 0|1] [–verbose] [–wr] BLK_DEVICE Description This bash shell script attempts to read or change the Software Write Protect (SWP) bit in the SCSI Control mode page using the sdparm utility. If that change is successful then it uses the blockdev…
rescan-scsi-bus.sh – script for adding and removing SCSI devices without rebooting Synopsis rescan-scsi-bus.sh [options] [host [host …]] Options -a, –alltargets scan all targets, not just currently existing [default: disabled] -d enable debug [default: 0] -l activates scanning for LUNs 0–7 [default: 0] -L NUM activates scanning for LUNs 0–NUM [default: 0] -w, –wide scan for…
script-email – Amanda script to send email notifications Description script-email is an Amanda script implementing the Script API. It should not be run by users directly. It sends a notification email to the addresses specified in the MAILTO property. Properties This section lists the properties that control script-email’s functionality. See amanda-scripts(7) for information on the…
scomes – tool for watching system resources Synopsis scomes -c "binary [binary arguments …]" [timer] Description scomes is a simple systemtap script for watching activity of one process. Syscalls count, userspace and kernelspace ticks, read and written bytes, transmitted and received bytes and polling syscalls are measured. binary Binary file to be executed. This process…
schema-reload.pl – Directory Server perl script for updating the schema. Synopsis schema-reload.pl [-Z serverID] [-D rootdn] { -w password | -w – | -j filename } [-P protocol] [-d schemadir] [-v] [-h] Description Manually reloads the schema files used by the Directory Server instance, either in the default location, or in user-specified locations. Options A…
scap-as-rpm – manual page for scap-as-rpm Description usage: scap-as-rpm [-h] [–pkg-name PKG_NAME] [–pkg-version PKG_VERSION] [–pkg-release PKG_RELEASE] [–pkg-summary PKG_SUMMARY] [–pkg-license PKG_LICENSE] [–pkg-scap-location PKG_SCAP_LOCATION] [–rpm-destination RPM_DESTINATION] [–srpm-destination SRPM_DESTINATION] FILE [FILE …] Takes given SCAP input(s) and makes an RPM package that contains them. The result RPM can be installed using # yum install ./package-name-1-1.rpm which will put…
scanspool – Perform a sanity scan over all articles in news spool Synopsis scanspool [-cnv] [-a active-file] [-s spool-dir] Description scanspool is a Perl script for use with a tradspool article spool. It will scan the active file as well as all articles in the spool and report on the errors it encounters. As this…
scanlogs – Summarize and rotate INN log files Synopsis scanlogs [norotate] Description scanlogs summarizes the information recorded in the INN log files which reside in the pathlog directory set in inn.conf (see newslog(5) for further details about these log files). It is normally invoked by the news.daily(8) script which performs daily server maintenance tasks. It…
scache – Postfix shared connection cache server Synopsis scache [generic Postfix daemon options] Description The scache(8) server maintains a shared multi-connection cache. This information can be used by, for example, Postfix SMTP clients or other Postfix delivery agents. The connection cache is organized into logical destination names, physical endpoint names, and connections. As a specific…