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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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iptables | 217
Linux
Commands
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-q Report on message queues.
-s Report on semaphore arrays.
Output format options:
-b Print information on maximum size of the resource: size in
bytes of messages or shared memory segments, and the
number of semaphores per set in the case of semaphore arrays.
-c Print creator and owner user IDs for IPC facilities.
-l Print resource maximum and minimum limits.
-o Print outstanding usage of the resource in question: the
number of messages and the total size of the message queue,
or the number of processes using shared memory segments.
-p Print creator and last operation process identifiers.
-t Print attach, detach, and change times for shared memory
segments, last operation and change times for semaphore
arrays, and send, receive, and change times for message
queues.
-u Print summary of current resource usage.
Other options:
-h Print help message, then exit.
-i identifier
Used in combination with the -m, -q,or-s options. Report
only on the resource specified by numeric identifier.
iptables
iptables command [options]
System administration command. Configure netfilter filtering rules
for kernels 2.4 and later. Rules for iptables consist of some
matching criteria and a target, a result to be applied if the packet
matches the criteria. The rules are organized into chains.
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