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.
NAME sx, sb, sz – XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM file send SYNOPSIS sz [-+8abdefkLlNnopqTtuvyY] file … sb [-adfkqtuv] file … sx [-akqtuv] file sz [-oqtv] -c COMMAND sz [-oqtv] -i COMMAND sz -TT DESCRIPTION Sz uses the ZMODEM, YMODEM or XMODEM error correcting protocol to send one or more files over a dial-in serial port to…
NAME systool – view system device information by bus, class, and topology SYNOPSIS systool [options [device]] DESCRIPTION Calling systool without parameters will present all available bus types, device classes, and root devices. When device is supplied, the information requested by options is shown only for the specified device, otherwise all present devices are displayed. systool…
NAME systemd, init – systemd system and service manager SYNOPSIS /lib/systemd/systemd [OPTIONS…] init [OPTIONS…] {COMMAND} DESCRIPTION systemd is a system and service manager for Linux operating systems. When run as first process on boot (as PID 1), it acts as init system that brings up and maintains userspace services. Separate instances are started for logged-in…
NAME systemd-mount, systemd-umount – Establish and destroy transient mount or auto-mount points SYNOPSIS systemd-mount [OPTIONS…] WHAT [WHERE] systemd-mount [OPTIONS…] –list systemd-mount [OPTIONS…] –umount WHAT|WHERE… DESCRIPTION systemd-mount may be used to create and start a transient .mount or .automount unit of the file system WHAT on the mount point WHERE. In many ways, systemd-mount is similar…
NAME systemd-tty-ask-password-agent – List or process pending systemd password requests SYNOPSIS systemd-tty-ask-password-agent [OPTIONS…] [VARIABLE=VALUE…] DESCRIPTION systemd-tty-ask-password-agent is a password agent that handles password requests of the system, for example for hard disk encryption passwords or SSL certificate passwords that need to be queried at boot-time or during runtime. systemd-tty-ask-password-agent implements the m[blue]Password Agents Specificationm[][1], and…
NAME systemctl, systemd-systemctl – Control the systemd system and service manager SYNOPSIS systemctl [OPTIONS…]{COMMAND}[NAME…] DESCRIPTION systemctl may be used to introspect and control the state of the systemd(1) system and service manager. OPTIONS The following options are understood: –help, -h Prints a short help text and exits. –version Prints a short version string and exits….
NAME systemd-socket-activate – Test socket activation of daemons SYNOPSIS systemd-socket-activate [OPTIONS…] daemon [OPTIONS…] DESCRIPTION systemd-socket-activate may be used to launch a socket-activated service program from the command line for testing purposes. It may also be used to launch individual instances of the service program per connection. The daemon to launch and its options should be…
NAME systemd-run – Run programs in transient scope units, service units, or path-, socket-, or timer-triggered service units SYNOPSIS systemd-run [OPTIONS…] COMMAND [ARGS…] systemd-run [OPTIONS…] [PATH OPTIONS…] {COMMAND} [ARGS…] systemd-run [OPTIONS…] [SOCKET OPTIONS…] {COMMAND} [ARGS…] systemd-run [OPTIONS…] [TIMER OPTIONS…] {COMMAND} [ARGS…] DESCRIPTION systemd-run may be used to create and start a transient .service or .scope unit…
NAME resolvectl, resolvconf, systemd-resolve – Resolve domain names, IPV4 and IPv6 addresses, DNS resource records, and services; introspect and reconfigure the DNS resolver SYNOPSIS resolvectl [OPTIONS…] {COMMAND} [NAME…] DESCRIPTION resolvectl may be used to resolve domain names, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, DNS resource records and services with the systemd-resolved.service(8) resolver service. By default, the specified…
NAME systemd-path – List and query system and user paths SYNOPSIS systemd-path [OPTIONS…] [NAME…] DESCRIPTION systemd-path may be used to query system and user paths. The tool makes many of the paths described in file-hierarchy(7) available for querying. When invoked without arguments, a list of known paths and their current values is shown. When at…
NAME systemd-nspawn – Spawn a namespace container for debugging, testing and building SYNOPSIS systemd-nspawn [OPTIONS…] [COMMAND [ARGS…]] systemd-nspawn -b [OPTIONS…] [ARGS…] DESCRIPTION systemd-nspawn may be used to run a command or OS in a light-weight namespace container. In many ways it is similar to chroot(1), but more powerful since it fully virtualizes the file system hierarchy,…
NAME systemd-notify – Notify service manager about start-up completion and other daemon status changes SYNOPSIS systemd-notify [OPTIONS…][VARIABLE=VALUE…] DESCRIPTION systemd-notify may be called by daemon scripts to notify the init system about status changes. It can be used to send arbitrary information, encoded in an environment-block-like list of strings. Most importantly, it can be used for…
NAME systemd-mount, systemd-umount – Establish and destroy transient mount or auto-mount points SYNOPSIS systemd-mount [OPTIONS…] WHAT [WHERE] systemd-mount [OPTIONS…] –list systemd-mount [OPTIONS…] –umount WHAT|WHERE… DESCRIPTION systemd-mount may be used to create and start a transient .mount or .automount unit of the file system WHAT on the mount point WHERE. In many ways, systemd-mount is similar…
NAME systemd-machine-id-setup – Initialize the machine ID in /etc/machine-id SYNOPSIS systemd-machine-id-setup DESCRIPTION systemd-machine-id-setup may be used by system installer tools to initialize the machine ID stored in /etc/machine-id at install time, with a provisioned or randomly generated ID. See machine-id(5) for more information about this file. If the tool is invoked without the –commit switch,…
NAME systemd-machine-id-commit – Commit transient machine ID to /etc/machine-id SYNOPSIS systemd-machine-id-commit DESCRIPTION systemd-machine-id-commit may be used to write on disk any transient machine ID mounted as a temporary file system in /etc/machine-id at boot time. See machine-id(5) for more information about this file. This tool will execute no operation if /etc/machine-id doesn’t contain any valid…
NAME loginctl, systemd-loginctl – Control the systemd login manager SYNOPSIS loginctl [OPTIONS…]{COMMAND}[NAME…] DESCRIPTION loginctl may be used to introspect and control the state of the systemd(1) login manager systemd-logind.service(8). OPTIONS The following options are understood: –help, -h Prints a short help text and exits. –version Prints a short version string and exits. –property=, -p When…
NAME journalctl, systemd-journalctl – Query the systemd journal SYNOPSIS journalctl [OPTIONS…][MATCH] DESCRIPTION journalctl may be used to query the contents of the systemd(1) journal as written by systemd-journald.service(8). If called without parameter will show the full contents of the journal, starting with the oldest entry collected. If a match argument is passed the output is…
NAME systemd-inhibit – Execute a program with an inhibition lock taken SYNOPSIS systemd-inhibit [OPTIONS…][COMMAND][ARGUMENTS…] systemd-inhibit [OPTIONS…] –list DESCRIPTION systemd-inhibit may be used to execute a program with a shutdown, sleep, or idle inhibitor lock taken. The lock will be acquired before the specified command line is executed and released afterwards. Inhibitor locks may be used…
NAME systemd-id128 – Generate and print sd-128 identifiers SYNOPSIS systemd-id128 [OPTIONS…] new systemd-id128 [OPTIONS…] machine-id systemd-id128 [OPTIONS…] boot-id systemd-id128 [OPTIONS…] invocation-id DESCRIPTION id128 may be used to conveniently print sd-id128(3) UUIDs. What identifier is printed depends on the specific verb. With new, a new random identifier will be generated. With machine-id, the identifier of the…
systemd-firstboot, systemd-firstboot.service – Initialize basic system settings on or before the first boot-up of a system Synopsis systemd-firstboot [OPTIONS…] systemd-firstboot.service Description systemd-firstboot initializes the most basic system settings interactively on the first boot, or optionally non-interactively when a system image is created. The following settings may be set up: • The system locale, more specifically…