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.
setupcon – sets up the font and the keyboard on the console Synopsissetupcon [OPTION]… [VARIANT] Descriptionsetupcon is a program for fast and easy setup of the font and the keyboard on the console. Most of the time you invoke setupcon without arguments. The keyboard configuration is specified in ~/.keyboard or /etc/default/keyboard. The font configuration is specified…
setup – A text mode system configuration tool Synopsissetup DescriptionThe setuptool program (setup) is a front-end menu program for a group of other tools, mostly system-config-*-tui tools. The list of options which it presents is assembled by scanning /etc/setuptool.d and /usr/share/setuptool/setuptool.d for files. Each file in the directory should contain one or more lines of…
setup-nsssysinit – Query or enable the nss-sysinit module Synopsis setup-nsssysinit [on] [off] [status]Descriptionsetup-nsssysinit is a shell script to query the status of the nss-sysinit module and when run with root priviledge it can enable or disable it. Turns on or off the nss-sysinit module db by editing the global PKCS #11 configuration file. Displays the…
setterm – set terminal attributes Synopsissetterm [options] Descriptionsetterm writes to standard output a character string that will invoke the specified terminal capabilities. Where possible terminfo is consulted to find the string to use. Some options however (marked "virtual consoles only" below) do not correspond to a terminfo(5) capability. In this case, if the terminal type…
setsid – run a program in a new session Synopsissetsid [options] program [arguments] Descriptionsetsid runs a program in a new session. The command calls fork(2) if already a process group leader. Otherwise, it executes a program in the current process. This default behavior is possible to override by the –fork option. Options-c, –ctty Set the…
setrichacl – Set Rich Access Control Lists Synopsissetrichacl [option]… [file]… DescriptionThe setrichacl utility sets or modifies Rich Access Control Lists (RichACLs) of files and directories. The -m and -s options expect an ACL or parts of an ACL on the command line. The -M and -S options read an ACL or parts of an ACL…
setregdomain – set regulatory domain based on country code Synopsissetregdomain Descriptionsetregdomain sets the regulatory domain for your system; it takes no arguments and is normally called via system script (eg, udev) rather than manually by an administrator. The regulatory domain is represented by an ISO / IEC 3166-1 alpha2 country code. By default, setregdomain attempts…
setreg – Change settings for public key cryptography Synopsissetreg [options] [feature] [true|false] DescriptionAllow to configure some optional settings for public key cryptography parameters used in Mono. Options-q Quiet mode. Limited display on console. -help, -h, -?, /? Display help about this tool.Features1 Trust the test root certificates (both Microsoft and Mono). Depending on the value…
setpriv – run a program with different Linux privilege settings Synopsissetpriv [options] program [arguments] DescriptionSets or queries various Linux privilege settings that are inherited across execve(2). In comparison to su(1) and runuser(1), setpriv neither uses PAM, nor does it prompt for a password. It is a simple, non-set-user-ID wrapper around execve(2), and can be used…
setpix – Set FITS or IRAF image values Synopsissetpix [-vn] file.fts [x_range y_range value] [@valuefile] DescriptionSet a specified pixel or range of pixels in a FITS or IRAF image to a specified value. More than one range of pixels and values may be specified on one command line. A file of xrange yrange value triplets…
setmetamode – define the keyboard meta key handling Synopsissetmetamode [ options ] [ argument ] DescriptionWithout argument, setmetamode prints the current Meta key mode. With argument, it sets the Meta key mode as indicated. The setting before and after the change are reported. The Meta key mode is specific for each VT (and the VT…
setmclk – adjust the memory timing of certain Cirrus cards. Synopsissetmclk DescriptionThis program sets the memory clock of Cirrus 5424/26/28 cards. The first three values could be set by utility programs that came with my card (AVGA3), but somewhat higher values seem to work (on my card at least). It may be that better and…
setleds – set the keyboard leds Synopsissetleds [-v] [-L] [-D] [-F] [{+|-}num] [{+|-}caps] [{+|-}scroll] DescriptionSetleds reports and changes the led flag settings of a VT (namely NumLock, CapsLock and ScrollLock). Without arguments, setleds prints the current settings. With arguments, it sets or clears the indicated flags (and leaves the others unchanged). The settings before and…
sethead – Set FITS or IRAF header keyword values Synopsissethead [-dknv][r letter] <FITS or IRAF file> kw1=val1 kw2=val2 … kwn=valuen DescriptionSet parameters in the header of a FITS or IRAF image. If the keywords do not already exist, they are added at the end of the header. Values are assumed to be numeric if they…
setfattr – set extended attributes of filesystem objects Synopsissetfattr [-h] -n name [-v value] pathname… setfattr [-h] -x name pathname… setfattr [-h] –restore=fileDescriptionThe setfattr command associates a new value with an extended attribute name for each specified file. Options-n name, –name=name Specifies the name of the extended attribute to set. -v value, –value=value Specifies the…
setfacl – set file access control lists Synopsissetfacl [-bkndRLPvh] [{-m|-x} acl_spec] [{-M|-X} acl_file] file … setfacl –restore={file|-} DescriptionThis utility sets Access Control Lists (ACLs) of files and directories. On the command line, a sequence of commands is followed by a sequence of files (which in turn can be followed by another sequence of commands, …)….
setcifsacl – Userspace helper to alter an ACL in a security descriptor for Common Internet File System (CIFS) Synopsissetcifsacl [-v|-a|-D|-M|-S] "{one or more ACEs}" {file system object}DescriptionThis tool is part of the cifs-utils suite. setcifsacl is a userspace helper program for the Linux CIFS client file system. It is intended to alter an ACL of…
set_show_service – enable or disable a service for the current user Synopsisset_show_service [–enable <service>] [–disable <service>] Descriptionset_show_service enables or disables the display of a specified service item. Options–enable <service> enable the given service for the user running this command. –disable disables the given service for the user running this command. BugsNone known See Alsomake_services(1), GNUstep(7)…
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sessreg – manage utmpx/wtmpx entries for non-init clients Synopsissessreg [-w wtmpx-file] [-u utmpx-file] [-L lastlog-file] [-l line-name] [-h host-name] [-s slot-number] [-x Xservers-file] [-t ttys-file] [-V] [-a] [-d] user-name DescriptionSessreg is a simple program for managing utmpx/wtmpx and lastlog entries for xdm sessions. This version of sessreg is built using the modern POSIX pututxline(3c) interfaces,…