"One Day One Gnu/Linux Command"
Get information on random commands in Gnu/Linux
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halt -- Stop the System. |
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Prof. Douglas Comer, author of the Network & OS Books and Creator
of Xinu OS. URL: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/comer
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halt -- Stop the System.
Summary:
Halt notes that the system is being brought down in the /var/log/wtmp,
file and then either tells the kernel to halt, reboot or poweroff the
system. Halt invoke shutdown, if the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6.
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host -- DNS Look-up Utility |
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Prof Andrew S. Tanenbaum (AST) Author of many OS and Network Books and Creator of Minix & Amoeba OS. URL: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/
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host -- DNS Look-up Utility
Summary:
host is a simple utility for performing DNS (Domain Name Service) lookups. It is normally used to convert names to IP addresses and vice versa.
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hdparm -- Get/Set Hard Disk Parameters. |
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Richard W Stevens author of UNIX Networking Programming and
TCP/IP Illustrated Book series. URL: http://www.kohala.com/
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hdparm -- Get/Set Hard Disk Parameters.
Summary:
hdparm provides a command line interface to various hard disk ioctls
supported by the stock Linux ATA/IDE device driver subsystem.
You *MUST* read the man page completely, if you want to do anything
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lsof -- LiSt Open Files. |
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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (EWD) was one of the most influential members of
computing science's founding generation and he honored by ACM Turing
Award. URL: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
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lsof -- LiSt Open Files.
Summary:
lsof lists all open files belonging to all active processes. An open
file may be a regular file, a Dir, a special file, an executing text
reference, a library, a stream or a network file (Internet socket, NFS
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strace -- Trace System Calls and Signals |
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RMS (Richard M Stallman) Founder of GNU Projects and Free Software Foundation (FSF). URL: http://www.stallman.org/One Day One Command =================== strace -- Trace System Calls and Signals. Summary: In the simplest case strace runs the specified command until it exits. It intercepts and records the system calls which are called by a process and the signals which are received by a process. The name of each system call, its arguments and its return value are printed. strace is a useful diagnostic, instructional, and debugging tool. |
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