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.
news2mail – Channel script to gateway news into e-mails Synopsis news2mail Description news2mail runs as a channel process underneath innd. It is set up as channel feed in newsfeeds, with different mailing-lists as funnel entries pointing to it (see below); news2mail expects the token of an article followed by a sequence of list names. news2mail…
news.daily – Perform daily Usenet maintenance tasks Synopsis news.daily [delayrm] [expctl=path] [expdir=path] [expireover] [expireoverflags=args] [flags=args] [lowmark] [mailto=address] [noexpire] [noexpireover] [noexplog] [nologs] [nomail] [noprocbatch] [norenumber] [norm] [norotate] [nostat] [notdaily] [postexec=program] [tmpdir=path] [/path/to/a/program] Description news.daily performs a number of important Usenet administrative functions. This includes: * producing a status report with innstat; * removing old news articles…
news.daily – Perform daily Usenet maintenance tasks Synopsis news.daily [delayrm] [expctl=path] [expdir=path] [expireover] [expireoverflags=args] [flags=args] [lowmark] [mailto=address] [noexpire] [noexpireover] [noexplog] [nologs] [nomail] [noprocbatch] [norenumber] [norm] [norotate] [nostat] [notdaily] [postexec=program] [procbatchdir=path] [tmpdir=path] [/path/to/a/program] Description news.daily performs a number of important Usenet administrative functions. This includes: • producing a status report with innstat; • removing old news…
newrole_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the newrole processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the newrole processes via flexible mandatory access control. The newrole processes execute with the newrole_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…
newaliases – update /etc/aliases database Synopsis newaliases Description This is a link to the ssmtp binary. It invokes /usr/sbin/sendmail with the -bi option. It is provided for compatibility with the sendmail program. In Fedora sSMTP supports /etc/aliases as a text file so there is no need to regenerate a database. Author This manual page was…
newaliases – update /etc/aliases database Synopsis newaliases Description This is a link to the ssmtp binary. It invokes /usr/sbin/sendmail with the -bi option. It is provided for compatibility with the sendmail program. In Fedora sSMTP supports /etc/aliases as a text file so there is no need to regenerate a database. Author This manual page was…
newaliases – rebuild the database for the mail aliases file Synopsis newaliases [-f file] Description newaliases rebuilds the random access database for the mail aliases file, the location of which is defined in smtpd.conf(5), and which by default is /etc/opensmtpd/aliases. If using database (db) files this utility must be run every time the aliases(5) file…
new-kernel-pkg – tool to script kernel installation Synopsis new-kernel-pkg [-v] [–mkinitrd] [–rminitrd] [–dracut] [–initrdfile=initrd-image [–depmod] [–rmmoddep] [–kernel-args=args] [–remove-args=args] [–banner=banner] [–multiboot=multiboot] [–mbargs=mbargs] [–make-default] [–add-dracut-args] [–add-plymouth-initrd] [–host-only] <–install | –remove | –update | –rpmposttrans> <kernel-version> Description new-kernel-pkg is a tool used in packaging to automate the installation of a new kernel, including the creation of an initial ram filesystem image, updating of bootloader configuration, and…
neutron_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the neutron processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the neutron processes via flexible mandatory access control. The neutron processes execute with the neutron_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…
netxml-ups – Driver for Eaton / MGE Network Management Card / Proxy (XML/HTTP Protocol) equipment Note This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the netxml-ups driver. For information about the core driver, see nutupsdrv(8). Supported Hardware netxml-ups support all recent Eaton / MGE models which use a Network Management Card or Proxy (MGE…
networkd-dispatcher – Dispatcher service for systemd-networkd connection status changes Synopsis networkd-dispatcher [-h] [-S SCRIPT_DIR] [-T] [-v] [-q] Description Dispatcher daemon for systemd-networkd connection status changes. This daemon is similar to NetworkManager-dispatcher, but is much more limited in the types of events it supports due to the limited nature of systemd-networkd(8). Desired actions (scripts) are placed…
netutils_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the netutils processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the netutils processes via flexible mandatory access control. The netutils processes execute with the netutils_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…
netstat – Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships Synopsis netstat [address_family_options] [–tcp|-t] [–udp|-u] [–udplite|-U] [–sctp|-S] [–raw|-w] [–l2cap|-2] [–rfcomm|-f] [–listening|-l] [–all|-a] [–numeric|-n] [–numeric-hosts] [–numeric-ports] [–numeric-users] [–symbolic|-N] [–extend|-e[–extend|-e]] [–timers|-o] [–program|-p] [–verbose|-v] [–continuous|-c] [–wide|-W] netstat {–route|-r} [address_family_options] [–extend|-e[–extend|-e]] [–verbose|-v] [–numeric|-n] [–numeric-hosts] [–numeric-ports] [–numeric-users] [–continuous|-c] netstat {–interfaces|-i} [–all|-a] [–extend|-e[–extend|-e]] [–verbose|-v] [–program|-p] [–numeric|-n] [–numeric-hosts]…
netsniff-ng – the packet sniffing beast Synopsis netsniff-ng { [options] [filter-expression] } Description netsniff-ng is a fast, minimal tool to analyze network packets, capture pcap files, replay pcap files, and redirect traffic between interfaces with the help of zero-copy packet(7) sockets. netsniff-ng uses both Linux specific RX_RING and TX_RING interfaces to perform zero-copy. This is…
netromd – Send and receive NET/ROM routing messages Synopsis netromd [-c] [-d] [-i] [-l] [-p pause] [-q quality] [-t interval] [-v] Description For a NET/ROM based network to operate correctly, a periodic broadcast of routing information needs to occur. Typically this occurs once every hour on every port which is expected to carry NET/ROM traffic….
ax25_call, netrom_call, rose_call, tcp_call – make an AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE or TCP connection Synopsis ax25_call [-c] [-i paclen] [-o paclen] port local_call remote_call [digipeaters …] netrom_call [-c] [-i paclen] [-o paclen] port local_call remote_netrom_addr rose_call [-c] [-i paclen] [-o paclen] port local_call remote_call remote_rose_addr tcp_call [-c] [-i paclen] [-o paclen] remote_addr remote_port Description ax25_call, netrom_call,…
netplugd – network cable hotplug management daemon Synopsis netplugd [-FP ] [-c config_file ] [-i interface_pattern ] [-p pid_file ] Description netplugd is a daemon that responds to network link events from the Linux kernel, such as a network interface losing or acquiring a carrier signal. When an Ethernet-style network interface on a host is…
netplan-try – try a configuration, optionally rolling it back Synopsis netplan [-debug] try -h | -help netplan [-debug] try [-config-file CONFIG_FILE] [-timeout TIMEOUT] Description netplan try takes a netplan(5) configuration, applies it, and automatically rolls it back if the user does not confirm the configuration within a time limit. This may be especially useful on…
netplan-generate – generate backend configuration from netplan YAML files Synopsis netplan [-debug] generate -h | -help netplan [-debug] generate [-root-dir ROOT_DIR] [-mapping MAPPING] Description netplan generate converts netplan YAML into configuration files understood by the backends (systemd-networkd(8) or NetworkManager(8)). It does not apply the generated configuration. You will not normally need to run this directly…
netplan-apply – apply configuration from netplan YAML files to a running system Synopsis netplan [-debug] apply -h | -help netplan [-debug] apply Description netplan apply applies the current netplan configuration to a running system. The process works as follows: 1. The backend configuration is generated from netplan YAML files. 2. The appropriate backends (systemd-networkd(8) or…