The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
yum-complete-transaction – attempt to complete failed or aborted Yum transactions Synopsis yum-complete-transaction [options] General Options -h, –help Help; display a help message and then quit. –cleanup-only Only clean up only transaction journal files and exit. Description yum-complete-transaction is a program which finds incomplete or aborted yum transactions on a system and attempts to complete them….
rpc.ypxfrd – NIS map transfer server Synopsis /usr/sbin/rpc.ypxfrd [-d path] [-p port] [–debug] [-f|–foreground] /usr/sbin/rpc.ypxfrd –version Description rpc.ypxfrd is used for speed up the transfer of very large NIS maps from a NIS master to the NIS slave server. If a NIS slave server receives a message that there is a new map, it will start ypxfr…
ypxfr_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the ypxfr processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the ypxfr processes via flexible mandatory access control. The ypxfr processes execute with the ypxfr_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…
ypxfr – transfer NIS database from remote server to local host Synopsis /usr/lib/yp/ypxfr [-f] [-c] [-d target domain] [-h source host] [-s source domain] [-C taskid program-number ipaddr port] [-p yp_path] mapname… Description ypxfr copies an NIS database from one NIS server to the local host by using the NIS service. ypxfr is generally invoked by ypinit or by ypserv, when ypserv receives a map transfer…
yptest – test NIS configuration Synopsis yptest [-q] [-d domain] [-h host] [-m map] [-u user] Description yptest calls various NIS functions to check if the NIS configuration is correct and works as expected. Options -q Be quiet, don’t print messages -d domainname Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by domainname(8)….
ypset – bind ypbind to a particular NIS server Synopsis ypset [ -d domain ] [ -h hostname ] server Description In order to run ypset, ypbind must be initiated with the -ypset or -ypsetme options. See ypbind(8). ypset tells ypbind to get NIS services for the specified domain from the ypserv(8) process running on…
ypserv_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the ypserv processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the ypserv processes via flexible mandatory access control. The ypserv processes execute with the ypserv_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…
ypserv – NIS Server Synopsis /usr/sbin/ypserv [-d] [-p port] [-f|–foreground] Description The Network Information Service (NIS) provides a simple network lookup service consisting of databases and processes. The databases are gdbm files in a directory tree rooted at /var/yp. The ypserv daemon is typically activated at system startup. ypserv runs only on NIS server machines with…
yppush – force propagation of changed NIS databases Synopsis /usr/sbin/yppush [-d domain] [-t timeout] [–parallel # | –port port] [-h host] [-v] mapname… Description yppush copies updated NIS databases (or maps) from the master NIS server to the slave servers within a NIS domain. It is normally run only on the NIS master by /var/yp/Makefile after the master databases are…
yppoll – return version and master server of a NIS map Synopsis yppoll [ -h host ] [ -d domain ] mapname Description yppoll Options -h host Ask the NIS server process running on host for information about mapname. If host is not specified, the server polled is the default server returned by ypwhich(1). -d…
yppasswdd_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the yppasswdd processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the yppasswdd processes via flexible mandatory access control. The yppasswdd processes execute with the yppasswdd_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…
rpc.yppasswdd – NIS password update daemon Synopsis rpc.yppasswdd [-D directory] -e chsh|chfn [–port number] [-f|–foreground] rpc.yppasswdd [-s shadow] [-p passwd] -e chsh|chfn [–port number] [-f|–foreground] rpc.yppasswdd -x program | -E program -e chsh|chfn [–port number] [-f|–foreground] Description rpc.yppasswdd is the RPC server that lets users change their passwords in the presence of NIS (a.k.a. YP). It must be run on the NIS master server for that…
ypinit – NIS database install and build program Synopsis /usr/lib/yp/ypinit [-m] [-s master_name] Description ypinit builds the domain subdirectory of FC/var/ypF[] for the current default domain. After building the domain subdirectory, ypinit builds a complete set of administrative maps for your system and places them in this directory. The first map created by ypinit -m is…
yphelper – helper application for internal use Description yphelper is a internal helper application for ypserv and should not be used by the normal user or system administrator. Author makedbm was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk [at] linux-nis.org>.
ypbind_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the ypbind processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the ypbind processes via flexible mandatory access control. The ypbind processes execute with the ypbind_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…
ypbind – NIS binding process Synopsis ypbind [-broadcast | -ypset | -ypsetme] [-c] [-f configfile] [-no-ping] [-broken-server] [-local-only] [-i | -ping-interval ping-interval] [-r | -rebind-interval rebind-interval] [-d | -debug] [-v | -verbose] [-n | -foreground] [-p port] [-log log-options] [-no-dbus] ypbind –version ypbind –help Description ypbind finds the server for NIS domains and maintains the NIS binding information. The client…
yadifad – an authoritative Internet domain name server. Synopsis yadifad [–config|-c configfile] [–daemon|-d] [-u uid] [-g gid] [-V] [-h] Description yadifad is a Domain Name System (DNS) server, part of the YADIFA distribution from EURid vzw/asbl. The latest version of YADIFA can be found on: http://www.yadifa.eu/download yadifad reads the zone files from yadifad.conf, and starts…
YADIFA is an utility for controlling YADIFAD Synopsis yadifa [–config|-c configfile] [-s host] [@host ] [-K key-name] [–version|-V] [-h] [–verbose|-v] [-t] command [[-q] zone] Description yadifa controls the operation of yadifad. yadifa communicates with a name server over a TCP connection. The protocol used between client – server is an extension of the DNS protocol….
iptables-translate — translation tool to migrate from iptables to nftables ip6tables-translate — translation tool to migrate from ip6tables to nftables Description There is a set of tools to help the system administrator translate a given ruleset from iptables(8) and ip6tables(8) to nftables(8). The available commands are: • iptables-translate • iptables-restore-translate • ip6tables-translate • ip6tables-restore-translate Usage…
xtables-nft — iptables using nftables kernel api Description xtables-nft are versions of iptables that use the nftables API. This is a set of tools to help the system administrator migrate the ruleset from iptables(8), ip6tables(8), arptables(8), and ebtables(8) to nftables(8). The xtables-nft set is composed of several commands: • iptables-nft • iptables-nft-save • iptables-nft-restore •…