cfdisk is a curses based program for partitioning any hard disk drive. Typical values of the device argument are: /dev/hda [default] /dev/hdb /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd In order to write the ...
The chat program defines a conversational exchange between the computer and the modem. Its primary purpose is to establish the connection between the Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon (pppd) and the remo...
The checksecurity command scans the mounted files systems (subject to the filter defined in /etc/checksecurity.conf) and compares the list of setuid programs to the list created on the previous run. A...
chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard input and uses this information to update a group of existing users. Without the -e switch, the passwords are expected to be clearte...
Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit If no command is given, run ``${SHELL} -i'' (default: /bin/sh).
cleanup-info is a Perl script that tries to clean up the mess that bogus install-info may have done. It gathers all sections with the same heading into a single one. It tries to be smart about cases a...
The consolechars command loads a font into the EGA/VGA character generator, and optionally outputs the previous font. This command reads an 8xH font from the file and loads it into the character gener...
cron is started automatically from /etc/init.d on entering multi-user runlevels. cron searches its spool area (/var/spool/cron/crontabs) for crontab files (which are named after accounts in /etc/passw...
This manual page documents briefly the cvs-pserver command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. cvs-pserver is a wrapper around CVS which loads some default variables. ...
cvsbug is a tool used to submit problem reports (PRs) to a central support site. In most cases the correct site will be the default. This argument indicates the support site which is responsible for t...
This manual page documents briefly the cvsconfig command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. cvsconfig is a program that will configure the Debian CVS setup to enable ...
cytune queries and modifies the interruption threshold for the Cyclades driver. Each serial line on a Cyclades card has a 12-byte FIFO for input (and another 12-byte FIFO for output). The "threshold...
The debugfs program is an interactive file system debugger. It can be used to examine and change the state of an ext2 file system. device is the special file corresponding to the device containing the...
deluser and delgroup remove users and groups from the system according to command line options and configuration information in /etc/deluser.conf. They are friendlier front ends to the userdel and gro...
The depmod and modprobe utilities are intended to make a Linux modular kernel manageable for all users, administrators and distribution maintainers. Depmod creates a "Makefile"-like dependency file,...
