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.
select-default-ispell – select default ispell dictionary Synopsis select-default-ispell [options] Options (all long only options): –set-default=’regexp’ Try ‘regexp’ to get a single match and set it as default. Fail otherwise. –show-choices Show available choices to STDERR and exit. –debug Enable debug mode Description This program is responsible for selecting default ispell dictionary. If –show-choices is used…
sefcontext_compile – compile file context regular expression files Synopsis sefcontext_compile [-o outputfile] [-p policyfile] inputfile Description sefcontext_compile is used to compile file context regular expressions into pcre(3) format. The compiled file is used by libselinux file labeling functions. By default sefcontext_compile writes the compiled pcre file with the .bin suffix appended (e.g. inputfile.bin). Options -o…
sedispatch – setroubleshoot audit dispatcher for SELinux Messages Synopsis sedispatch Description This manual page describes the sedispatch program. sedispatch is audit dispatcher. It scans audit messages for SELinux AVC messages, formats them into a dbus message and sends it to setroubleshootd Author This man page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh [at] redhat.com>. See Also…
sectoolm_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the sectoolm processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the sectoolm processes via flexible mandatory access control. The sectoolm processes execute with the sectoolm_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…
secolor.conf – The SELinux color configuration file Description The /etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/secolor.conf configuation file controls the color to be associated to the context components associated to the raw context passed by selinux_raw_context_to_color(3), when context related information is to be displayed in color by an SELinux-aware application. selinux_raw_context_to_color(3) obtains this color information from the active policy secolor.conf file…
secadm_sudo_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the secadm_sudo processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the secadm_sudo processes via flexible mandatory access control. The secadm_sudo processes execute with the secadm_sudo_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…
secadm_su_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the secadm_su processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the secadm_su processes via flexible mandatory access control. The secadm_su processes execute with the secadm_su_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…
secadm_r – Security administrator role – Security Enhanced Linux Policy Description SELinux supports Roles Based Access Control (RBAC), some Linux roles are login roles, while other roles need to be transition into. Note: Examples in this man page will use the staff_u SELinux user. Non login roles are usually used for administrative tasks. For example,…
secadm_screen_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the secadm_screen processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the secadm_screen processes via flexible mandatory access control. The secadm_screen processes execute with the secadm_screen_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…
seaudit – SELinux graphical audit log analysis tool Synopsis seaudit [OPTIONS] [POLICY …] Description seaudit allows the user to view and filter the contents of a log file. seaudit supports the syslog and auditd log formats and provides queries to inspect the SELinux policy based on log messages. Policy seaudit supports loading a SELinux policy…
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)….