Administration Utilities

The Saigon CTT Administration Utilities The Saigon CTT  Objectives  Describe, use man pages and other information  Demonstrate how to communicate with users  Identify system defaults  Demonstrate how to find files The Saigon CTT  man Pages and the man Command  You can get information about most commands using man This online help system contains the following information about each command:  Command name  Synopsis and description  List and definition of all options  Environment and parameters  Related commands are listed at the end of the man page The number in parentheses after a command is the section of the manual pages The Saigon CTT  Example $ man passwd PASSWD(1) User utilities PASSWD(1) NAME … SYNOPSIS … DESCRIPTION … OPERANDS … EXAMPLE … SEE ALSO finger(1), login(1), nispasswd(1), crypt(3C), passwd(5) The Saigon CTT  Table 2.1 : man page sections and their descriptions The Saigon CTT  man Pages and the man Command  To view a particular section of the man pages, include the section number with the man command and the term you are looking for: man The Saigon CTT  Scrolling in Man Pages • Spacebar • Return Move forward one screen •b •f Move back one screen •q • /string Quit the man command •n •h Find the next occurrence of string Move forward one line Move forward one screen Find forward Help more The Saigon CTT  Searching Man Pages by Keyword • If you are not sure of the command name, use the man command with -k option man -k keyword • Example : $ man -k insert insque (3) – insert/remove an item from queue remque [insque] (3) - insert/remove an item from queue wrjpgcom (1) – insert text coments into JPG file The Saigon CTT  Which command use to remove user ? $ man -k delete … groupdel (8) - Delete a group … rmdir (2) - delete a directory … userdel (8) – Delete a user account and related files The Saigon CTT  Which command use to modify user ? • $ man -k modify ar (1)- creat, modify and extract from archive setpnp (8)- modify Plug and Play BIOS device resources usermod (8)- Modify user account ... command is the section of the manual pages The Saigon CTT  Example $ man passwd PASSWD(1) User utilities PASSWD(1) NAME … SYNOPSIS … DESCRIPTION … OPERANDS … EXAMPLE … SEE ALSO finger(1), login(1),