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28.Dd October 22, 2006
29.Dt INTRO 8
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm intro
33.Nd "introduction to system maintenance procedures and commands"
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35This section contains information related to system operation
36and maintenance.
37.Pp
38It describes commands used to create new file systems
39.Pq Xr newfs 8 ,
40verify the integrity of the file systems
41.Pq Xr fsck 8 ,
42control disk usage
43.Pq Xr edquota 8 ,
44maintain system backups
45.Pq Xr dump 8 ,
46and recover files when disks die an untimely death
47.Pq Xr restore 8 .
48.\" The
49.\" .Xr format 8
50.\" manual
51.\" for the specific architecture the system is running on should be
52.\" consulted when formatting disks and tapes.
53Network related services like
54.Xr inetd 8
55and
56.Xr ftpd 8
57are also described.
58.Pp
59All commands set an exit status.
60Its value may be tested
61to see if the command completed normally.
62Unless otherwise noted (rare), the value 0 signifies successful
63completion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error.
64Some commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using
65error codes defined in
66.Xr sysexits 3 ,
67or set the status to arbitrary values >0 (typically 1), but many
68such values are not described in the manual.
69.Pp
70A number of pages in this section describe general system
71management topics.
72.Pp
73For example, the
74.Xr boot 8
75manual page describes the system bootstrapping procedures,
76and the
77.Xr diskless 8
78manual page describes how to boot a system over a network.
79The
80.Xr crash 8
81manual page
82should be consulted to understand how to interpret system
83crash dumps.
84.Sh HISTORY
85The
86.Nm
87section manual page appeared in
88.Bx 4.2 .
89