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.
networkctl – Query the status of network links Synopsis networkctl [OPTIONS…] COMMAND [LINK…]Descriptionnetworkctl may be used to introspect the state of the network links as seen by systemd-networkd. Please refer to systemd-networkd.service(8) for an introduction to the basic concepts, functionality, and configuration syntax. CommandsThe following commands are understood: list [PATTERN…] Show a list of existing…
network-admin – Network Administration Tool Synopsisnetwork-admin [OPTION…] Descriptionnetwork-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration. network-admin allows you to specify the way your system connects to other computers and to the Internet. Options–display=DISPLAY X display to use network-admin also accepts the standard GNOME and…
nettee – a network "tee" program Synopsisnettee [options] Descriptionnettee passes a data stream to one or more child nodes using a daisychain method. On each node nettee may also direct the stream to a file or pipe. nettee allows large amounts of data to be quickly distributed to multiple nodes on a network at a…
netstiff – powerful and easy tool to check for Web and FTP updates Synopsisnetstiff [options] [command] DescriptionNetstiff (formerly known as webdiff) is a powerful and easy-to-use tool which checks for Web page and/or FTP site updates. For the Web, updates are recognized using several test criteria (diff, html, size, date, md5sum, regexp). The FTP update…
netstat-nat – Show the natted connections on a linux iptable firewall Synopsisnetstat-nat [options] Descriptionnetstat-nat Displays NAT connections managed by netfilter/iptables which comes with the > 2.4.x linux kernels. The program reads its information from ‘/proc/net/ip_conntrack’ or ‘/proc/net/nf_conntrack’, which is the temporary conntrack-storage of netfilter. Options-h displays help -n don’t resolve IPs/portnumbers to host/portnames -p <protocol>…
netreport – request notification of network interface changes Synopsisnetreport [-r] Descriptionnetreport tells the network management scripts to send a SIGIO signal to the process which called netreport when any network interface status changes occur. Options-r Remove the current request (if any) for the calling process.NotesIf a program does not call netreport with the -r option…
netpbm – package of graphics manipulation programs and libraries DescriptionNetpbm is a package of graphics programs and programming libraries. There are over 220 separate programs in the package, most of which have "pbm", "pgm", "ppm", or "pnm" in their names. For example, pnmscale and giftopnm. For example, you might use pnmscale to shrink an image…
netmonitor – Network Bandwidth Monitor Synopsisnetmonitor [options…..] Descriptionnetmonitor is a console application that monitors network interfaces. It displays the transfer rate (upload and download) for each device and the data consumed by each device. The main features of netmon are low resource usage, a simple yet effective design, and an easy to understand tabular output….
netmask – a netmask generation and conversion program Synopsisnetmask [ options ] spec [ spec … ] DescriptionThis program accepts and produces a variety of common network address and netmask formats. Not only can it convert address and netmask notations, but it will optimize the masks to generate the smallest list of rules. This is…
Linux NetKit (0.17) Nameftp – Internet file transfer program Synopsisftp [-46pinegvd ] [host [port ] ] pftp [-46inegvd ] [host [port ] ] DescriptionFtp is the user interface to the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol. The program allows a user to transfer files to and from a remote network site. Options may be specified at…
netkey-tool – administrative utility for Netkey E4 cards Synopsisnetkey-tool [OPTIONS] [COMMAND] DescriptionThe netkey-tool utility can be used from the command line to perform some smart card operations with NetKey E4 cards that cannot be done easily with other OpenSC-tools, such as changing local PINs, storing certificates into empty NetKey E4 cert-files or displaying the initial…
nc – arbitrary TCP and UDP connections and listens Synopsisnc [-46bCDdFhklNnrStUuvZz [-I length ] ] [-i interval ] [-M ttl ] [-m minttl ] [-O length ] [-P proxy_username ] [-p source_port ] [-q seconds ] [-s sourceaddr ] [-T keyword ] [-V rtable ] [-W recvlimit ] [-w timeout ] [-X proxy_protocol ] [-x…
netatalk-config – script to get information about the installed version of netatalk Synopsis netatalk-config [–prefix [=DIR]] [–exec_prefix [=DIR]] [–help] [–version] [–libs] [–libs-dirs] [–libs-names] [–cflags] [–macros]Descriptionnetatalk-config is a tool that is used to determine the compiler and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use the netatalk run-time libraries. Optionsnetatalk-config accepts the following…
Net Activity Viewer – a graphical network connections viewer Synopsisnetactview DescriptionWith netactview you can view the active network connections using a graphical interface. AuthorsWritten by Mihai Varzaru <mihaiv [at] gmail.com>.
netCDFPerl – perl extension for netCDF dataset access Synopsisuse netCDF; NetCDF::create("foo.nc", NetCDF::CLOBBER); …DescriptionnetCDFPerl is a Perl 5 extension-module interface to the services provided by the netCDF version 2 API, netcdf2(3). The functions in the netCDF version 2 library can be accessed by a Perl 5 script by replacing the `nc‘ prefix of the regular netCDF…
net-snmp-create-v3-user – create a SNMPv3 user in net-snmp configuration file Synopsisnet-snmp-create-v3-user [-ro] [-a authpass] [-x privpass] [-X DES|AES] [username] DescriptionThe net-snmp-create-v3-user shell script is designed to create a new user in net-snmp configuration file (/var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf by default). Options–version displays the net-snmp version number -ro create an user with read-only permissions -a authpass specify authentication password…
net-snmp-config – returns information about installed net-snmp libraries and binaries Synopsisnet-snmp-config [OPTIONS] DescriptionThe net-snmp-config shell script is designed to retrieve the configuration information about the libraries and binaries dealing with the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), built from the net-snmp source package. The information is particularly useful for applications that need to link against the…
net-server – Base Net::Server starting module Synopsis net-server [base type] [net server arguments] net-server PreFork ipv ‘*’ net-server HTTP net-server HTTP app foo.cgi net-server HTTP app foo.cgi app /=bar.cgi net-server HTTP port 8080 port 8443/ssl ipv ‘*’ server_type PreFork –SSL_key_file=my.key –SSL_cert_file=my.crt access_log_file STDERRDescriptionThe net-server program gives a simple way to test out code and try…
nessus – The client part of the Nessus Security Scanner Synopsisnessus [-v] [-h] [-n] [-T <type>] [-q [-pPS] host port user password targets results] nessus -i in.[nsr|nbe] -o out.[html|xml|nsr|nbe] DescriptionThe Nessus Security Scanner is a security auditing tool made up of two parts: a server, and a client. The server, nessusd is in charge of the attacks, whereas…
nessus-mkrand – Creates a file with random bytes Synopsisnessus-mkrand [filename [entropy] ] DescriptionThe Nessus Security Scanner protects the communication between the client and the server by using SSL. To work securely, the OpenSSL library needs a suitable amount of random bytes. On most system, it uses EGD or /dev/random (or /dev/urandom). On systems which have none of these,…