Section 8: administration and privileged commands
prunehistory – Remove tokens from Usenet history file Synopsis prunehistory [-p] [-f filename] Description prunehistory modifies a history(5)-format text file to “remove” a set of tokens from it. The tokens are removed by overwriting them with spaces, so that the size and position of any following entries does not change. This has an effect similar…
proxymap – Postfix lookup table proxy server Synopsis proxymap [generic Postfix daemon options] Description The proxymap(8) server provides read-only or read-write table lookup service to Postfix processes. These services are implemented with distinct service names: proxymap and proxywrite, respectively. The purpose of these services is: • To overcome chroot restrictions. For example, a chrooted SMTP…
prosody_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the prosody processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the prosody processes via flexible mandatory access control. The prosody processes execute with the prosody_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…
proftpd – Professional configurable, secure file transfer protocol server Synopsis proftpd [ -hlntv ] [ -c config-file ] [ -d debuglevel ] [ -p 0|1 ] Description proftpd is the Professional File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server daemon. The server may be invoked by the Internet "super-server" inetd(8) each time a connection to the FTP service…
procmail_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the procmail processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the procmail processes via flexible mandatory access control. The procmail processes execute with the procmail_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…
procbatch – Process an INN funnel file or innfeed-dropped file Synopsis procbatch [-hquv] [-c [-s spooldir]] [-d outdir] [-e peer] [-m [-t backlogdir]] batchfile Description procbatch will take an INN funnel or innfeed-dropped file and split it up by host for direct processing with innfeed or innxmit. While funnel files will normally only be of…
privoxy_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the privoxy processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the privoxy processes via flexible mandatory access control. The privoxy processes execute with the privoxy_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…
privatetopublic — convert cjdns private keys to public keys and IP6 Synopsis /usr/libexec/cjdns/privatetopublic Description As private keys are very sensitive, /usr/libexec/cjdns/privatetopublic reads them from stdin. If your shell, terminal, or other program keeps history, please avoid echo ‘key’ | /usr/libexec/cjdns/privatetopublic, or similar constructs. A heredoc is suitable for use in scripts, and will avoid unwanted…
prewikka_script_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the prewikka_script processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the prewikka_script processes via flexible mandatory access control. The prewikka_script processes execute with the prewikka_script_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…
preupgrade_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the preupgrade processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the preupgrade processes via flexible mandatory access control. The preupgrade processes execute with the preupgrade_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…
prelude_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the prelude processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the prelude processes via flexible mandatory access control. The prelude processes execute with the prelude_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…
prelude_lml_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the prelude_lml processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the prelude_lml processes via flexible mandatory access control. The prelude_lml processes execute with the prelude_lml_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…
prelude_correlator_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the prelude_correlator processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the prelude_correlator processes via flexible mandatory access control. The prelude_correlator processes execute with the prelude_correlator_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…
prelude_audisp_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the prelude_audisp processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the prelude_audisp processes via flexible mandatory access control. The prelude_audisp processes execute with the prelude_audisp_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…
prelink_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the prelink processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the prelink processes via flexible mandatory access control. The prelink processes execute with the prelink_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…
prelink_cron_system_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the prelink_cron_system processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the prelink_cron_system processes via flexible mandatory access control. The prelink_cron_system processes execute with the prelink_cron_system_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…
prelink – prelink ELF shared libraries and binaries to speed up startup time Synopsis prelink [OPTION…] [FILES] Description prelink is a program that modifies ELF shared libraries and ELF dynamically linked binaries in such a way that the time needed for the dynamic linker to perform relocations at startup significantly decreases. Due to fewer relocations, the…
praliases – display system mail aliases Synopsis praliases [-C file] [-f file] [key …] Description The praliases utility displays the current system aliases, one per line, in no particular order. The special internal @:@ alias will be displayed if present. The options are as follows: -C file Read the specified sendmail configuration file instead of…
pptpsetup – Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol setup Synopsis pptpsetup –create <TUNNEL> –server <SERVER> [–domain <DOMAIN>] –username <USERNAME> [–password <PASSWORD>] [–encrypt] [–start] pptpsetup –delete <TUNNEL> Description PPTP Client is a Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD client for the proprietary Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, PPTP. This script configures PPTP Client on Linux. Options –create TUNNEL create a tunnel…
pptpd – PPTP VPN daemon Synopsis pptpd [ options ] Description pptpd is the Poptop PPTP daemon, which manages tunnelled PPP connections encapsulated in GRE using the PPTP VPN protocol. It may contain features like IP address management and TCP wrappers if compiled in. Options Here we document the command line options. See pptpd.conf(5) for…