Section 8: administration and privileged commands
pppconfig – configure pppd to connect to the Internet Synopsis pppconfig [–version] | [–help] | [[–dialog] | [–whiptail] | [–gdialog] [–noname] | [providername]] Description pppconfig is a dialog based interactive, menu driven utility to help automate setting up a dial out ppp connection. It provides extensive explanations at each step. pppconfig supports PAP, CHAP, and…
ppp-watch – daemon to make PPP interfaces act more like other interfaces Synopsis ppp-watch interface-name [boot] Description ppp-watch manages one PPP connection, including starting, stopping, and redialing. It makes starting and stopping the connection synchronous activities. ppp-watch is not really meant to be called directly. It should only be used from within the ifup-ppp script….
powertop – a power consumption and power management diagnosis tool. Synopsis powertop [ options ] Description powertop is a program that helps to diagnose various issues with power consumption and power management. It also has an interactive mode allowing one to experiment with various power management settings. When invoking powertop without arguments powertop starts in…
powerpanel – Driver for PowerPanel Plus compatible UPS equipment Note This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the powerpanel driver. For information about the core driver, see nutupsdrv(8). Supported Hardware This driver supports CyberPower BC1200, PR2200 and many other similar devices, both for the text and binary protocols. The driver will autodetect which…
halt, poweroff, reboot – Halt, power-off or reboot the machine Synopsis halt [OPTIONS…] poweroff [OPTIONS…] reboot [OPTIONS…] Description halt, poweroff, reboot may be used to halt, power-off, or reboot the machine. All three commands take the same options. Options The following options are understood: –help Print a short help text and exit. –halt Halt the…
powermand – power control and monitoring daemon Synopsis powermand [-options] Description powermand provides power management in a data center or compute cluster environment. Options -c, –conf filename Override the default location of the powerman configuration file /etc/powerman/powerman.conf. -f, –foreground Do not daemonize, and send debugging/error messages to stderr instead of syslog. -d, –debug mask Set…
powerman-pdu – Driver for Powerman PDU Note This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the powerman-pdu driver. For information about the core driver, see nutupsdrv(8). Supported Hardware This driver supports a wide range of PDUs through the Powerman project. This includes various models from APC, Baytech, Cyclades, but also support IPMI and various…
powercom – UPS driver for serial Powercom/Trust/Advice UPS equipment Note This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the powercom driver. For information about the core driver, see nutupsdrv(8). Supported Hardware This driver supports many similar kinds of serial UPS hardware (as well as a few USB UPS models with USB-to-serial adapters). The most…
poundctl – control the pound(8) daemon Synopsis poundctl -c /path/to/socket [-L/-l] [-S/-s] [-B/-b] [-N/-n] [-H] [-X] Description Poundctl controls various aspects of the operation of the pound(8) program. Options Options available: -c /path/to/socket The path to the (Unix-domain) socket Pound was configured to listen on for control. Your Pound configuration file must contain the directive…
pound – HTTP/HTTPS reverse-proxy and load-balancer Synopsis pound [-v] [-c] [-V] [-f config_file] [-p pid_file] Description Pound is a reverse-proxy load balancing server. It accepts requests from HTTP/HTTPS clients and distributes them to one or more Web servers. The HTTPS requests are decrypted and passed to the back-ends as plain HTTP. If more than one…
postscreen – Postfix zombie blocker Synopsis postscreen [generic Postfix daemon options] Description The Postfix postscreen(8) server provides additional protection against mail server overload. One postscreen(8) process handles multiple inbound SMTP connections, and decides which clients may talk to a Postfix SMTP server process. By keeping spambots away, postscreen(8) leaves more SMTP server processes available for…
postgrey_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the postgrey processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the postgrey processes via flexible mandatory access control. The postgrey processes execute with the postgrey_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…
postgrey – Postfix Greylisting Policy Server Synopsis postgrey [options…] -h, –help display this help and exit –version output version information and exit -v, –verbose increase verbosity level –syslog-facility Syslog facility to use (default mail) -q, –quiet decrease verbosity level -u, –unix=PATH listen on unix socket PATH -i, –inet=[HOST:]PORT listen on PORT, localhost if HOST is…
postgresql_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the postgresql processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the postgresql processes via flexible mandatory access control. The postgresql processes execute with the postgresql_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…
postfix_virtual_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the postfix_virtual processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the postfix_virtual processes via flexible mandatory access control. The postfix_virtual processes execute with the postfix_virtual_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…
postfix_smtpd_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the postfix_smtpd processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the postfix_smtpd processes via flexible mandatory access control. The postfix_smtpd processes execute with the postfix_smtpd_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…
postfix_smtp_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the postfix_smtp processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the postfix_smtp processes via flexible mandatory access control. The postfix_smtp processes execute with the postfix_smtp_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…
postfix_showq_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the postfix_showq processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the postfix_showq processes via flexible mandatory access control. The postfix_showq processes execute with the postfix_showq_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…
postfix_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the postfix processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the postfix processes via flexible mandatory access control. Booleans SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. postfix policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run postfix with the tightest access…
postfix_qmgr_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the postfix_qmgr processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the postfix_qmgr processes via flexible mandatory access control. The postfix_qmgr processes execute with the postfix_qmgr_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…