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.
pppoe-setup – Shell script to configure Roaring Penguin PPPoE client Synopsis pppoe-setup Description pppoe-setup is a shell script which prompts you for various pieces of information and sets up an /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 configuration script for the pppoe-start, pppoe-stop and +pppoe-connect scripts. Author pppoe-setup was written by David F. Skoll <dfs [at] roaringpenguin.com>. The pppoe home page…
pppoe-server – user-space PPPoE server Synopsis pppoe-server [options] Description pppoe-server is a user-space server for PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) for Linux and other UNIX systems. pppoe-server works in concert with the pppoe client to respond to PPPoE discovery packets and set up PPPoE sessions. Options -F The -F option causes pppoe-server not to fork…
pppoe-relay – user-space PPPoE relay agent. Synopsis pppoe-relay [options] Description pppoe-relay is a user-space relay agent for PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) for Linux. pppoe-relay works in concert with the pppoe client and pppoe-server server. See the OPERATION section later in this manual for details on how pppoe-relay works. Options -S interface Adds the Ethernet…
pppoe-discovery – perform PPPoE discovery Synopsis pppoe-discovery [ options ] pppoe-discovery { -V | -h } Description pppoe-discovery performs the same discovery process as pppoe, but does not initiate a session. It sends a PADI packet and then prints the names of access concentrators in each PADO packet it receives. Options -I interface The -I…
pppoe-connect – Shell script to manage a PPPoE link Synopsis pppoe-connect [config_file] pppoe-connect interface user [config_file] Description pppoe-connect is a shell script which manages a PPPoE connection using the Roaring Penguin user-space PPPoE client. If you omit config_file, the default file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 is used. If you supply interface and user, then they override the Ethernet…
pppdump – convert PPP record file to readable format Synopsis pppdump [ -h | -p [ -d ]] [ -r ] [ -a ] [ -m mru ] [ file … ] Description The pppdump utility converts the files written using the record option of pppd into a human-readable format. If one or more…
pppd_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the pppd processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the pppd processes via flexible mandatory access control. The pppd processes execute with the pppd_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…
pppd – Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon Synopsis pppd [ options ] Description PPP is the protocol used for establishing internet links over dial-up modems, DSL connections, and many other types of point-to-point links. The pppd daemon works together with the kernel PPP driver to establish and maintain a PPP link with another system (called the peer)…
radius.so – RADIUS authentication plugin for pppd(8) Synopsis pppd [ options ] plugin radius.so Description The RADIUS plugin for pppd permits pppd to perform PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP and MS-CHAPv2 authentication against a RADIUS server instead of the usual /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets files. The RADIUS plugin is built on a library called radiusclient which has its…
radattr.so – RADIUS utility plugin for pppd(8) Synopsis pppd [ options ] plugin radius.so plugin radattr.so Description The radattr plugin for pppd causes all radius attributes returned by the RADIUS server at authentication time to be stored in the file /var/run/radattr.pppN where pppN is the name of the PPP interface. The RADIUS attributes are stored…
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…