June 2003
Beginner to intermediate
944 pages
43h 1m
English
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Chapter 2. System and Network Administration Overview
Common Commands
Following are lists of commonly used system administration commands.
Clocks
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hwclock |
Manage hardware clock. |
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rdate |
Get time from network time server. |
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zdump |
Print list of time zones. |
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zic |
Create time conversion information files. |
Daemons
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apmd |
Advanced Power Management daemon. |
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atd |
Queue commands for later execution. |
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bootpd |
Internet Boot Protocol daemon. |
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fingerd |
Finger daemon. |
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ftpd |
File Transfer Protocol daemon. |
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identd |
Identify user running TCP/IP process. |
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imapd |
IMAP mailbox server daemon. |
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inetd |
Internet services daemon. |
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klogd |
Manage syslogd. |
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lpd |
Printer daemon. |
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mountd |
NFS mount request server. |
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named |
Internet domain name server. |
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nfsd |
NFS daemon. |
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pppd |
Maintain Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) network connections. |
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rdistd |
Remote file distribution server. |
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rexecd |
Remote execution server. |
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rlogind |
rlogin server. |
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routed |
Routing daemon. |
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rpc.rusersd |
Remote users server. |
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rpc.statd |
NFS status daemon. |
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rshd |
Remote shell server. |
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rwhod |
Remote who server. |
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sshd |
Secure shell daemon. |
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syslogd |
System logging daemon. |
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talkd |
Talk daemon. |
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tcpd |
TCP network daemon. |
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tftpd |
Trivial File Transfer Protocol daemon. |
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update |
Buffer flush daemon. |
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ypbind |
NIS binder process. |
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yppasswdd |
NIS password modification server. |
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ypserv |
NIS server process. |
Hardware
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agetty |
Start user session at terminal. |
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arp |
Manage the ARP ... |
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