July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Commands
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/proc/kmsg
A file examined by klogd for messages.
/var/run/klogd.pid
klogd’s process ID.
kudzu
kudzu [options]
Red Hat Linux and relatives only. Detects new and changed hard-
ware by comparing existing hardware against a database in /etc/
sysconfig/hwconfig. Users are then given the opportunity to
configure the hardware. Runs automatically at boot time.
Options
-b, --bus bus
Probe only on the bus specified.
-c, --class class
Probe only for the class of hardware specified.
-f, --file filename
Read hardware info from the specified file instead of probing
for existing hardware.
-?, --help
Display help information.
-k, --kernel n
Check for kernel modules only in the specified kernel version.
-p, --probe
Probe only: print hardware information to stdout, but do not
configure any devices found.
-q, --quiet
Do not prompt user for any information; perform only non-
interactive configurations.
-s, --safe
Safe mode: skip probes that interrupt hardware currently in
use. This does not check serial ports, DDC monitors, or PS/2
ports.
-t, --timeout n
Number of seconds to wait for user input on initial configura-
tion dialog. No configuration will be written to disk if there is
no user input during this time.
--usage
Display short usage message.
last
last [options] [username] [ttynumber]
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