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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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Chapter 3: Linux Commands
This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition
Copyright © 2006 O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.
/etc/mail/helpfile
SMTP help file.
/etc/mail/statistics
Statistics file.
/etc/aliases
Alias file, in text form.
/etc/aliases.db
Alias file in dbm format. Created by newaliases
/var/spool/mqueue
Directory in which the mail queue and temporary files reside.
sensors
sensors [options] [chips]
Display current readings of all sensor chips and set limits as speci-
fied in the configuration file. The default configuration file is /etc/
sensors.conf.
Options
-A Omit adapter and algorithm for each chipset.
-c [config-file]
Specify a configuration file. The default value is sensor.conf,
and the default paths are searched in this order: /etc, /usr/lib/
sensors, /usr/local/lib/sensors, /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, and . (the
current directory).
-f Print temperatures in Fahrenheit, not Celsius.
-h Display help information and exit.
-s Evaluate all set statements in the configuration file. Requires
superuser privileges.
-u Treat all chips as unknown. Used for testing purposes. The
output quality will be lower.
-v Display version information and exit.
seq
seq [options] [first [increment]] last
Print the numbers from first through last by increment. The default
is to print one number per line to standard output. Both first and
increment can be omitted and default to 1, but if first is omitted ...
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