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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-09-22 16:09:47 +0000
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<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
-<para>The Sysvinit package contains the pidof, last, lastb, mesg, utmpdump,
-wall, halt, init, killall5, poweroff, reboot, runlevel, shutdown,
-sulogin and telinit programs.</para>
+<para>The Sysvinit package contains the halt, init, killall5, last,
+lastb, mesg, pidof, poweroff, reboot, runlevel, shutdown, sulogin,
+telinit, utmpdump, wall,</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Description</title>
-<sect3><title>pidof</title>
-
-<para>Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and prints
-those id's on standard output.</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>last</title>
-
-<para>last searches back through the file /var/log/wtmp (or the file designated
-by the -f flag) and displays a list of all users logged in (and out)
-since that file was created.</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>lastb</title>
-
-<para>lastb is the same as last, except that by default it shows a log of the
-file /var/log/btmp, which contains all the bad login attempts.</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>mesg</title>
-
-<para>Mesg controls the access to the users terminal by others. It's typically
-used to allow or disallow other users to write to his terminal.</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>utmpdump</title>
-
-<para>utmpdumps prints the content of a file (usually /var/run/utmp) on
-standard output in a user friendly format.</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>wall</title>
-
-<para>Wall sends a message to everybody logged in with their mesg permission
-set to yes.</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
<sect3><title>halt</title>
-
<para>Halt notes that the system is being brought down in the file
/var/log/wtmp, and then either tells the kernel to halt, reboot or
poweroff the system. If halt or reboot is called when the system is not
in runlevel 0 or 6, shutdown will be invoked instead (with
-the flag -h or -r).</para>
-
-</sect3>
+the flag -h or -r).</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>init</title>
-
<para>Init is the parent of all processes. Its primary role is to create
processes from a script stored in the file /etc/inittab. This
file usually has entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line that
users can log in. It also controls autonomous processes required by any
-particular system.</para>
-
-</sect3>
+particular system.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>killall5</title>
-
<para>killall5 is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all
processes except the processes in its own session, so it won't kill the
-shell that is running the script it was called from.</para>
+shell that is running the script it was called from.</para></sect3>
-</sect3>
-<sect3><title>poweroff</title>
+<sect3><title>last</title>
+<para>last searches back through the file /var/log/wtmp (or the file designated
+by the -f flag) and displays a list of all users logged in (and out)
+since that file was created.</para></sect3>
-<para>poweroff is equivalent to shutdown -h -p now. It halts the computer and
-switches off the computer (when using an APM compliant BIOS and APM is
-enabled in the kernel).</para>
+<sect3><title>lastb</title>
+<para>lastb is the same as last, except that by default it shows a log of the
+file /var/log/btmp, which contains all the bad login attempts.</para></sect3>
-</sect3>
+<sect3><title>mesg</title>
+<para>Mesg controls the access to the users terminal by others. It's typically
+used to allow or disallow other users to write to his terminal.</para></sect3>
-<sect3><title>reboot</title>
+<sect3><title>pidof</title>
+<para>Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and prints
+those id's on standard output.</para></sect3>
-<para>reboot is equivalent to shutdown -r now. It reboots the computer.</para>
+<sect3><title>poweroff</title>
+<para>poweroff is equivalent to shutdown -h -p now. It halts the computer and
+switches off the computer (when using an APM compliant BIOS and APM is
+enabled in the kernel).</para></sect3>
-</sect3>
+<sect3><title>reboot</title>
+<para>reboot is equivalent to shutdown -r now. It reboots
+the computer.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>runlevel</title>
-
<para>Runlevel reads the system utmp file (typically /var/run/utmp) to locate
the runlevel record, and then prints the previous and current system
-runlevel on its standard output, separated by a single space.</para>
-
-</sect3>
+runlevel on its standard output, separated by a single space.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>shutdown</title>
-
<para>shutdown brings the system down in a secure way. All logged-in users are
-notified that the system is going down, and login is blocked.</para>
-
-</sect3>
+notified that the system is going down, and login is blocked.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>sulogin</title>
-
<para>sulogin is invoked by init when the system goes into single user mode
(this is done through an entry in /etc/inittab). Init also tries to
execute sulogin when it is passed the -b flag from the boot loader
-(eg, LILO).</para>
-
-</sect3>
+(eg, LILO).</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>telinit</title>
-
<para>telinit sends appropriate signals to init, telling it which runlevel to
-change to.</para>
+change to.</para></sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>utmpdump</title>
+<para>utmpdumps prints the content of a file (usually /var/run/utmp) on
+standard output in a user friendly format.</para></sect3>
-</sect3>
+<sect3><title>wall</title>
+<para>Wall sends a message to everybody logged in with their mesg permission
+set to yes.</para></sect3>
</sect2>