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.
febootstrap-install – Install a file in an febootstrap root filesystem Synopsis febootstrap-install ROOT LOCALFILE TARGETPATH MODE OWNER[.GROUP] Description This can be used to safely install a new file in an febootstrap root filesystem. Just copying a file in isn’t usually safe, for reasons which are to do with the fakeroot(8) command. Example febootstrap-install initramfs new-fstab…
fdisk – manipulate disk partition table Synopsis fdisk [options] device fdisk -l [device…] Description fdisk is a dialog-driven program for creation and manipulation of partition tables. It understands GPT, MBR, Sun, SGI and BSD partition tables. Block devices can be divided into one or more logical disks called partitions. This division is recorded in the…
fdformat – low-level format a floppy disk Synopsis fdformat [options] device Description fdformat does a low-level format on a floppy disk. device is usually one of the following (for floppy devices the major = 2, and the minor is shown for informational purposes only): /dev/fd0d360 (minor = 4) /dev/fd0h1200 (minor = 8) /dev/fd0D360 (minor =…
fcron – daemon to execute scheduled tasks Synopsis fcron [ -c file ] [ -d ] [ -b ] [ -s time ] [ -m num ] [ -q num ] fcron [ -c file ] [ -d ] [ -f ] [ -o ] [ -y ] [ -l time ] fcron [ -n…
fcrls – Fibre Channel Read Link Error Status Block (RLS) tool Synopsis fcrls –port rport_bsg_name [–quiet] fcrls –fcid rport_port_FC-ID [–quiet] fcrls –help Description The fcrls command performs Fibre Channel Read Link Error Status Block (RLS) ELS request (see FC-LS-2) via BSG over a given rport bsg name or FC-ID. fcrls takes either a rport bsg…
fcping – Fibre Channel Ping (ELS ECHO) tool Synopsis fcping [-fqx] [ -i interval ] [ -c count ] [ -s size ] -h source target source = interface | MAC | WWPN | FC-ID target = -P WWPN | -N WWPN | -F FC-ID Description The fcping command performs the Fibre Channel FC-LS-2 ECHO…
fcoemon_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the fcoemon processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the fcoemon processes via flexible mandatory access control. The fcoemon processes execute with the fcoemon_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…
fcoemon – Open-FCoE service daemon Synopsis fcoemon [-f|–foreground] [-l|–legacy] [-d|–debug] [-s|–syslog] fcoemon -h|–help fcoemon -v|–version Description The fcoemon daemon is the core component of the Open-FCoE management service. The primary function of fcoemon is to control FCoE instances. fcoemon will create, destroy, reset, enable and disable FCoE instances based on system configuration, administrative commands, and…
fcoeadm – The Open-FCoE Administration Tool Synopsis fcoeadm [-m|–mode fabric|vn2vn] -c|–create ethX fcoeadm -d|–destroy ethX fcoeadm -r|–reset ethX fcoeadm -S|–Scan [ethX] fcoeadm -i|–interface [ethX] fcoeadm -f|–fcf [ethX] fcoeadm -t|–target [ethX] fcoeadm -l|–lun [ethX] fcoeadm -s|–stats ethX [interval] fcoeadm -b|–lesb ethX [interval] fcoeadm -h|–help fcoeadm -v|–version Description The fcoeadm utility is the Fibre Channel over Ethernet…
fcnsq – Fibre Channel Name Server Query Tool Synopsis fcnsq host –gpn port_id [-q | –quiet] fcnsq host –gnn port_id [-q | –quiet] fcnsq host –gspn port_id [-q | –quiet] fcnsq host –gsnn wwpn [-q | –quiet] fcnsq ? Description The fcnsq command performs Fibre Channel Name Server queries for a user-specified FC Host. The…
fcgistarter – Start a FastCGI program Synopsis fcgistarter –c command –p port [ –i interface ] –N num Summary Note Currently only works on Unix systems. Options -c command Absolute path of the FastCGI program -p port Port which the program will listen on -i interface Interface which…
fbset – show and modify frame buffer device settings Synopsis fbset [options] [mode] Description This documentation is out of date!! fbset is a system utility to show or change the settings of the frame buffer device. The frame buffer device provides a simple and unique interface to access different kinds of graphic displays. Frame buffer…
faxrunqd – daemon to send fax jobs queued by faxspool(1) Synopsis faxrunqd [-v] [-d] [-l <ttys>] [-u <user>] [-V] Description Runs in the background, and regularily checks the fax queue set up by faxspool(1). Sends all jobs that are due, records results, and takes appropriate action (notify mails etc). faxrunqd basically does the same as…
faxq-helper – privileged helper process to access the fax queue Synopsis faxq-helper <command> [<options>] Description faxq-helper is part of the internal workings of faxspool(1). Formerly, the /var/spool/fax/outgoing directory was world-writeable, leading to all sort of funny symlink attacks against faxspool(1) and faxrunq(8). These days, it’s owned by the user “fax”, and only this user can…
fatlabel – set or get MS-DOS filesystem label or volume ID Synopsis fatlabel [OPTIONS] DEVICE [NEW] Description fatlabel will display or change the volume label or volume ID on the MS-DOS filesystem located on DEVICE. By default it works in label mode. It can be switched to volume ID mode with the option -i or…
fanctl – fan bridge administration Synopsis fanctl up [<options>…] fanctl down [<options>…] fanctl up -a fanctl down -a fanctl down -e fanctl show fanctl help Description fanctl is used to set up, tear down, and inspect Fan bridge mappings and devices in the linux kernel. NOTE: Future versions of the commands will make fanatic the…
fancontrol – automated software based fan speed regulation Synopsis fancontrol [configfile] Description fancontrol is a shell script for use with lm_sensors. It reads its configuration from a file, then calculates fan speeds from temperatures and sets the corresponding PWM outputs to the computed values. Warning Please be careful when using the fan control features of…
fanatic – fan bridge configuration and test wizard Synopsis fanatic [<cmd> [<arg> …]] fanatic configure fanatic deconfigure fanatic test Description fanatic is the configuration and test wizard for Fan networking. It is designed to simplify the process of configuring persistent Fan bridges. It will also configure both LXD and Docker to use those bridges as…
faillog – display faillog records or set login failure limits Synopsis faillog [options] Description faillog displays the contents of the failure log database (/var/log/faillog). It can also set the failure counters and limits. When faillog is run without arguments, it only displays the faillog records of the users who had a login failure. Options The…
faillock – Tool for displaying and modifying the authentication failure record files Synopsis faillock [–dir /path/to/tally-directory] [–user username] [–reset] Description The pam_faillock.so module maintains a list of failed authentication attempts per user during a specified interval and locks the account in case there were more than deny consecutive failed authentications. It stores the failure records into per-user…