From 53ad30a63b4d5f80f713963835dee995f9546071 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Hymers Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 16:09:47 +0000 Subject: [Bug 190] Put descs in alphabetical order git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1249 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml | 117 ++++++++++++++------------------------------ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml') diff --git a/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml b/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml index 59964e9f7..b1e112456 100644 --- a/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml @@ -1,129 +1,86 @@ Contents -The Sysvinit package contains the pidof, last, lastb, mesg, utmpdump, -wall, halt, init, killall5, poweroff, reboot, runlevel, shutdown, -sulogin and telinit programs. +The Sysvinit package contains the halt, init, killall5, last, +lastb, mesg, pidof, poweroff, reboot, runlevel, shutdown, sulogin, +telinit, utmpdump, wall, Description -pidof - -Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and prints -those id's on standard output. - - - -last - -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. - - - -lastb - -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. - - - -mesg - -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. - - - -utmpdump - -utmpdumps prints the content of a file (usually /var/run/utmp) on -standard output in a user friendly format. - - - -wall - -Wall sends a message to everybody logged in with their mesg permission -set to yes. - - - halt - 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). - - +the flag -h or -r). init - 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. - - +particular system. killall5 - 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. +shell that is running the script it was called from. - -poweroff +last +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. -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). +lastb +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. - +mesg +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. -reboot +pidof +Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and prints +those id's on standard output. -reboot is equivalent to shutdown -r now. It reboots the computer. +poweroff +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). - +reboot +reboot is equivalent to shutdown -r now. It reboots +the computer. runlevel - 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. - - +runlevel on its standard output, separated by a single space. shutdown - 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. - - +notified that the system is going down, and login is blocked. sulogin - 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). - - +(eg, LILO). telinit - telinit sends appropriate signals to init, telling it which runlevel to -change to. +change to. + +utmpdump +utmpdumps prints the content of a file (usually /var/run/utmp) on +standard output in a user friendly format. - +wall +Wall sends a message to everybody logged in with their mesg permission +set to yes. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf