1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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3 | <sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
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4 |
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5 | <para>Last checked against version &sysvinit-contversion;.</para>
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6 |
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7 | <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
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8 |
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9 | <sect4><title>halt</title>
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10 | <para>halt notes, in the file /var/log/wtmp, that the system is being
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11 | brought down and then tells the kernel to either halt, reboot or
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12 | poweroff the system. If halt or reboot is called when the system is not
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13 | in runlevel 0 or 6, shutdown will be invoked instead (with
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14 | the flag -h or -r).</para></sect4>
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15 |
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16 | <sect4><title>init</title>
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17 | <para>init is the parent of all processes. Its primary role is to create
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18 | processes from a script stored in the file /etc/inittab. This
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19 | file usually has entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line from
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20 | which users can log in. It also controls autonomous processes required by any
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21 | particular system.</para></sect4>
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22 |
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23 | <sect4><title>killall5</title>
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24 | <para>killall5 is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all
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25 | processes except the processes in its own session, so it won't kill the
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26 | shell that is running the script it was called from.</para></sect4>
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27 |
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28 | <sect4><title>last</title>
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29 | <para>last searches back through the file /var/log/wtmp (or the file designated
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30 | by the -f flag) and displays a list of all users logged in (and out)
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31 | since that file was created.</para></sect4>
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32 |
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33 | <sect4><title>lastb</title>
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34 | <para>lastb is the same as last, except that by default it shows a log of the
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35 | file /var/log/btmp, which contains all the bad login attempts.</para></sect4>
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36 |
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37 | <sect4><title>mesg</title>
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38 | <para>mesg controls the access to the user's terminal by others. It's typically
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39 | used to allow or disallow other users to write to his terminal.</para></sect4>
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40 |
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41 | <sect4><title>pidof</title>
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42 | <para>pidof displays the process identifiers (PIDs) of the named
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43 | programs.</para></sect4>
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44 |
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45 | <sect4><title>poweroff</title>
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46 | <para>poweroff is equivalent to shutdown -h -p now. It halts the computer and
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47 | switches off the computer (when using an APM compliant BIOS and APM is
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48 | enabled in the kernel).</para></sect4>
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49 |
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50 | <sect4><title>reboot</title>
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51 | <para>reboot is equivalent to shutdown -r now. It reboots
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52 | the computer.</para></sect4>
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53 |
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54 | <sect4><title>runlevel</title>
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55 | <para>runlevel reads the system utmp file (usually /var/run/utmp), locates
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56 | the runlevel record and prints the previous and current system
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57 | runlevel on its standard output, separated by a single space.</para></sect4>
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58 |
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59 | <sect4><title>shutdown</title>
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60 | <para>shutdown brings the system down in a secure way. All logged-in users are
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61 | notified that the system is going down and login is blocked.</para></sect4>
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62 |
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63 | <sect4><title>sulogin</title>
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64 | <para>sulogin is invoked by init when the system goes into single user mode
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65 | (this is done through an entry in /etc/inittab). Init also tries to
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66 | execute sulogin when it is passed the -b flag from the boot loader
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67 | (LILO, for example).</para></sect4>
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68 |
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69 | <sect4><title>telinit</title>
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70 | <para>telinit sends appropriate signals to init, telling it which runlevel to
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71 | enter.</para></sect4>
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72 |
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73 | <sect4><title>utmpdump</title>
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74 | <para>utmpdumps prints the content of a file (usually /var/run/utmp) on
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75 | standard output in a user friendly format.</para></sect4>
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76 |
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77 | <sect4><title>wall</title>
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78 | <para>wall sends a message to logged in users that have their mesg permission
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79 | set to yes.</para></sect4>
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80 |
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81 | </sect3>
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82 |
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83 | </sect2>
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84 |
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