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35afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Dd December 11, 1993
36afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Dt INTRO 8
373d45e180SRuslan Ermilov.Os
38afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME
39afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Nm intro
40afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Nd "introduction to system maintenance and operation commands"
41afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION
42afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThis section contains information related to system operation
43afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesand maintenance.
44afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesIt describes commands used to create new file systems,
45bda79b63SRuslan Ermilov.Xr newfs 8 ,
46afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesverify the integrity of the file systems,
47bda79b63SRuslan Ermilov.Xr fsck 8 ,
48afe61c15SRodney W. Grimescontrol disk usage,
49bda79b63SRuslan Ermilov.Xr edquota 8 ,
50afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesmaintain system backups,
51bda79b63SRuslan Ermilov.Xr dump 8 ,
52afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesand recover files when disks die an untimely death,
53bda79b63SRuslan Ermilov.Xr restore 8 .
54afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe
55bda79b63SRuslan Ermilov.Xr format 8
56afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesmanual
57afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfor the specific architecture the system is running on should be
58afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesconsulted when formatting disks and tapes.
59afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesNetwork related services like
60bda79b63SRuslan Ermilov.Xr inetd 8
61afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesand
62bda79b63SRuslan Ermilov.Xr ftpd 8
63afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesare also described.
64afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe section
65bda79b63SRuslan Ermilov.Xr crash 8
66afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesshould be consulted to understand how to interpret system
67afe61c15SRodney W. Grimescrash dumps.
68a8f83879STom Rhodes.Pp
69a8f83879STom RhodesAll commands set an exit status.
70a8f83879STom RhodesIts value may be tested
71a8f83879STom Rhodesto see if the command completed normally.
72a8f83879STom RhodesUnless otherwise noted (rare), the value 0 signifies successful
73a8f83879STom Rhodescompletion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error.
74a8f83879STom RhodesSome commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using
75a8f83879STom Rhodeserror codes defined in
76a8f83879STom Rhodes.Xr sysexits 3 ,
77a8f83879STom Rhodesor set the status to arbitrary values >0 (typically 1), but many
78a8f83879STom Rhodessuch values are not described in the manual.
79afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh HISTORY
80afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe
814b66483fSRuslan Ermilov.Nm
82afe61c15SRodney W. Grimessection manual page appeared in
83afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Bx 4.2 .
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