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.
era_check – validate era metadata on device or file. Synopsis era_check [options] {device|file} Description era_check checks era metadata created by the device-mapper era target on a device or file. This tool cannot be run on live metadata. Options -h, –help Print help and exit. -V, –version Print version information and exit. -q, –quiet Suppress output…
epylog – Syslog new log notifier and parser. Synopsis epylog [-c epylog.conf] [-d LOGLEVEL] [–last PERIOD] [–store-offsets] [–quiet] [–cron] Description Epylog is a new log notifier and parser which runs periodically out of cron, looks at your logs, processes the entries in order to present them in a more comprehensive format, and then provides you with the…
entropyd_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the entropyd processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the entropyd processes via flexible mandatory access control. The entropyd processes execute with the entropyd_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…
elogd – web server program for Electronic Logbook ELOG Synopsis elog [ -C url ] [ -c file ] [ -D ] [ -d directory ] [ -f file ] [ -k ] [ -l logbook ] [ -M ] [ -m ] [ -n hostname ] [ -p port ] [ -S ] […
efibootmgr – manipulate the UEFI Boot Manager Synopsis efibootmgr [ -a ] [ -A ] [ -b XXXX ] [ -r | -y ] [ -B ] [ -c ] [ -d DISK ] [ -D ] [ -e 1|3|-1 ] [ -E NUM ] [ -g ] [ -i NAME ] [ -l NAME…
efibootdump – dump a boot entries from a variable or a file Synopsis efibootdump [-?|–help] [–usage] [-f <file1> [… -f <fileN>]] [[-g {guid}] <name0> [… [<nameN>]]] Description efibootdump is a userspace application used to display individual UEFI boot options, from a file or a UEFI variable. This allows e.g. saved files from efivarfs to be…
edquota – edit user quotas Synopsis edquota [ -p protoname ] [ -u | -g ] [ -rm ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] username… edquota [ -u | -g ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -t edquota [ -u | -g ] [ -F format-name ] [ -f filesystem ] -T…
edg-mkgridmap – a tool to build the grid-mapfile Synopsis edg-mkgridmap [–help] [–version] [–conf=config_file] [–output[=output_file]] [–quiet] [–verbose] [–safe] [–nosafe] [–cache] [–nocache] [–proxy] [–noproxy] [–usermode] Description edg-mkgridmap is a tool to build the grid-mapfile from VO servers, taking into account both VO and local policies. Configuration edg-mkgridmap.conf file contains configuration information for edg-mkgridmap. The syntax of the edg-mkgridmap.conf file is discussed…
edac-ctl – EDAC admin utility Synopsis edac-ctl [OPTION]… Description The edac-ctl program is a perl(1) script which performs some useful administration tasks for EDAC (Error Detection and Correction) drivers. Options –help Display a brief usage message. –quiet Quiet operation. –mainboard Print mainboard vendor and model for this hardware, if available. This option requires that the…
ecryptfsd – user-space eCryptfs daemon. Description ecryptfsd is a userspace daemon that runs as the user performing file operations under the eCryptfs mount point. It services public key requests from the eCryptfs kernel module; these requests are sent via /dev/ecryptfs on file open events. ecryptfsd only needs to be run when a mount is done…
ecryptfs-migrate-home – migrate a user’s home directory to an encrypted home setup Synopsis ecryptfs-migrate-home [-u|–user USER] Options -u, –user USER Migrate USER’s home directory to an encrypted home directory Description WARNING: Make a complete backup copy of the non-encrypted data to another system or external media. This script is dangerous and in case of an…
ecryptfs-manager – eCryptfs key manager. Description ecryptfs-manager is an application that manages eCryptfs objects such as keys. You can use ecryptfs-manager to ask key modules to generate new keys for you, for instance. See Also ecryptfs(7), ecryptfsd(8), mount.ecryptfs(8) /usr/share/doc/ecryptfs-utils/ecryptfs-faq.html http://ecryptfs.org/ Author This manpage was written by William Lima <wlima.amadeus [at] gmail.com> for the Ubuntu system…
ec2-converter, creates ready to bundle EC2 AMI disk images for Amazon’s EC2. Synopsis ec2-converter [OPTIONS] Description ec2-converter creates creates ready to bundle EC2 AMI disk images for Amazon’s EC2. Options -h, –help Shows a help message and exits. Image Options These options define the converted EC2 AMI image. -f IMAGEFILE –imagefile=IMAGEFILE Image filename or directory…
ebtables (v2.0.10-4) – Ethernet bridge frame table administration Synopsis ebtables [-t table ] –[ACDI] chain rule specification [match extensions] [watcher extensions] target ebtables [-t table ] -P chain ACCEPT | DROP | RETURN ebtables [-t table ] -F [chain] ebtables [-t table ] -Z [chain] ebtables [-t table ] -L [-Z] [chain] [ [–Ln] |…
ebtables – Ethernet bridge frame table administration (nft-based) Synopsis ebtables [-t table ] –[ACDI] chain rule specification [match extensions] [watcher extensions] target ebtables [-t table ] -P chain ACCEPT | DROP | RETURN ebtables [-t table ] -F [chain] ebtables [-t table ] -Z [chain] ebtables [-t table ] -L [-Z] [chain] [ [–Ln] |…
xtables-nft — iptables using nftables kernel api Description xtables-nft are versions of iptables that use the nftables API. This is a set of tools to help the system administrator migrate the ruleset from iptables(8), ip6tables(8), arptables(8), and ebtables(8) to nftables(8). The xtables-nft set is composed of several commands: • iptables-nft • iptables-nft-save • iptables-nft-restore •…
xtables-nft — iptables using nftables kernel api Description xtables-nft are versions of iptables that use the nftables API. This is a set of tools to help the system administrator migrate the ruleset from iptables(8), ip6tables(8), arptables(8), and ebtables(8) to nftables(8). The xtables-nft set is composed of several commands: • iptables-nft • iptables-nft-save • iptables-nft-restore •…
easside-ng – an auto-magic tool which allows you to communicate via an WEP-encrypted AP without knowing the key Synopsis easside-ng <options> Description easside-ng is an auto-magic tool which allows you to communicate via an WEP-encrypted access point (AP) without knowing the WEP key. It first identifies a network, then proceeds to associate with it, obtain…
eapol_test – EAP peer and RADIUS client testing Synopsis eapol_test [ -nWS ] [ -cconfig file ] [ -aserver IP address ] [ -Aclient IP address ] [ -pUDP port ] [ -sshared secret ] [ -rre-authentications ] [ -ttimeout ] [ -CConnect-Info ] [ -MMAC address ] [ -ofile ] [ -Nattr spec ]…
e4defrag – online defragmenter for ext4 file system Synopsis e4defrag [ -c ] [ -v ] target … Description e4defrag reduces fragmentation of extent based file. The file targeted by e4defrag is created on ext4 file system made with "-O extent" option (see mke2fs(8)). The targeted file gets more contiguous blocks and improves the file…