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,...
Dexconf retrieves values from debconf's database and uses them to build an XF86Config or XF86Config-4 (depending on the default X server selected) file. The information that dexconf uses is typically...
The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client, dhclient, provides a means for configuring one or more network interfaces using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, BOOTP protocol, or if these proto...
The DHCP client network configuration script is invoked from time to time by dhclient(8). This script is used by the dhcp client to set each interface's initial configuration prior to requesting an a...
dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer. The program helps users to print out their bootup messages. Instead of copying the messages by hand, the user need only: dmesg > boot.messag...
Without an argument, domainname displays the name of the current NIS domainname of the system. domainname uses the getdomainname(2) function for getting the domainname, nisdomainname and ypdomainname ...
