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mount(8) -- mount a file system
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All files accessible in a Unix system are arranged in one big tree, the file hierarchy, rooted at /. These files can be spread out over several devices. The mount command serves to attach the file sys... |
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nameif(8) -- name network interfaces based on MAC addresses
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nameif renames network interfaces based on mac addresses. When no arguments are given /etc/mactab is read. Each line of it contains an interface name and a Ethernet MAC address. Comments are allowed s... |
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netstat(8) -- Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multica...
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Netstat prints information about the Linux networking subsystem. The type of information printed is controlled by the first argument, as follows: (none) By default, netstat displays a list of open soc... |
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newaliases(8) -- update /etc/aliases database
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This is a simple shell script calling /usr/lib/sendmail with the -bi option. It is provided for compatibility with the sendmail program. It is not actually necessary to notify exim of changes to /etc/... |
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newusers(8) -- update and create new users in batch
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newusers reads a file of user name and cleartext password pairs and uses this information to update a group of existing users or to create new users. Each line is in the same format as the standard pa... |
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nisdomainname(8) --
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nsupdate(8) -- Dynamic DNS update utility
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nsupdate is used to submit Dynamic DNS Update requests as defined in RFC2136 to a name server. This allows resource records to be added or removed from a zone without manually editing the zone file. A... |
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paperconfig(8) -- configure the system default paper size
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paperconfig sets the system (or default) paper to be used by tools using the papersize file. It can either ask interactively for the paper to use or be called non-interactively by scripts. |
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parted(8) -- a partition manipulation program
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This manual page documents briefly the parted command. Complete documentation is distributed with the package. parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program. It allows you to create, de... |
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pidof(8) -- find the process ID of a running program.
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Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs. It prints those id's on the standard output. This program is on some systems used in run-level change scripts, especially when the system h... |
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ping(8) -- send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts
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Ping uses the ICMP protocol's mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to elicit an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from a host or gateway. ECHO_REQUEST datagrams (``pings'') have an IP and ICMP header, followed by a ``... |
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pivot_root(8) -- change the root file system
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pivot_root moves the root file system of the current process to the directory put_old and makes new_root the new root file system. Since pivot_root(8) simply calls pivot_root(2), we refer to the man p... |
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plipconfig(8) -- fine tune PLIP device parameters
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Plipconfig is used to (hopefully) improve PLIP performance by changing the default timing parameters used by the PLIP protocol. Results are dependent on the parallel port hardware, cable, and the CPU ... |
