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                     System Manager's Manual



                              (SMM)




















































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                             4.4BSD


                     System Manager's Manual



                              (SMM)








                 Berkeley Software Distribution


                           April, 1994








                 Computer Systems Research Group

              University of California at Berkeley

















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                            Contents



Introduction                                                  vii


List of Manual Pages                                           ix


Permuted Index                                              xxxix


Reference Manual Section 8                              tabbed M8

     Section 8 of  the  UNIX  Programmer's  Manual  contains
     information  related  to  system operation, administra-
     tion, and maintenance.


Installing and Operating 4.4BSD                          tabbed 1

     The definitive reference document for  those  occasions
     when you find you need to start over again.


Building 4.4BSD Kernels with Config                      tabbed 2

     In-depth  discussions  of  the use and operation of the
     config program, and how to build  your  very  own  Unix
     kernel.


Fsck - The UNIX File System Check Program                tabbed 3

     A  reference document for using the fsck program during
     times of file system distress.


Disc Quotas in a UNIX Environment                        tabbed 4

     A light introduction to the techniques for limiting the
     use of disc resources.


A Fast File System for UNIX                              tabbed 5

     A  description  of the 4.4BSD file system organization,
     design and implementation.









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The 4.4BSD NFS Implementation                            tabbed 6

     An overview of the design, implementation, and  use  of
     NFS on 4.4BSD.


Line Printer Spooler Manual                              tabbed 7

     This  document describes the structure and installation
     procedure for the line printer spooling system.


Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide                tabbed 8

     The last word in installing and operating the  sendmail
     program.


Sendmail - An Internetwork Mail Router                   tabbed 9

     An  overview  document on the design and implementation
     of sendmail.


Name Server Operations Guide for BIND                   tabbed 10

     Setting up and operating the name to Internet  address-
     ing  software.   If  you have a network this will be of
     interest.


Timed Installation and Operation Guide                  tabbed 11

     Describes how to maintain time synchronization  between
     machines in a local network.


The Berkeley UNIX Time Synchronization Protocol         tabbed 12

     The protocols and algorithms used by timed, the network
     time synchronization daemon.


AMD - The 4.4BSD Automounter                            tabbed 13

     Automatically mounting file systems on demand.


Installation and Operation of UUCP                      tabbed 14

     Describes the implementation of uucp; for the installer
     and administrator.











Contents                                                   - ix -


A Dial-Up Network of UNIX Systems                       tabbed 15

     Describes  UUCP,  a  program  for  communicating  files
     between UNIX systems.


On the Security of UNIX                                 tabbed 16

     Hints on how to break UNIX, and how to avoid your  sys-
     tem being broken.


Password Security - A Case History                      tabbed 17

     How  the bad guys used to be able to break the password
     algorithm, and why they cannot now  (at  least  not  so
     easily).


Networking Implementation Notes, 4.4BSD Edition         tabbed 18

     A  concise  description  of  the system interfaces used
     within the networking subsystem.


The PERL Programming Language                           tabbed 19

     The Practical Extraction and Report Language  is  ideal
     for writing those pesky adminitration scripts.


List of Documents                               inside back cover































- x -                                                    Contents




































































                             Introduction



The  documentation  for  4.4BSD is in a format similar to the one
used for the 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD manuals.  It is divided into three
sets;  each  set  consists of one or more volumes.  The abbrevia-
tions for the volume names are listed  in  square  brackets;  the
abbreviations  for the manual sections are listed in parenthesis.

     I. User's Documents
          User's Reference Manual [URM]
               Commands (1)
               Games (6)
               Macro packages and language conventions (7)
          User's Supplementary Documents [USD]
               Getting Started
               Basic Utilities
               Communicating with the World
               Text Editing
               Document Preparation
               Amusements

     II. Programmer's Documents
          Programmer's Reference Manual [PRM]
               System calls (2)
               Subroutines (3)
               Special files (4)
               File formats and conventions (5)
          Programmer's Supplementary Documents [PSD]
               Documents of Historic Interest
               Languages in common use
               Programming Tools
               Programming Libraries
               General Reference

     III. System Manager's Manual [SMM]
          Maintenance commands (8)
          System Installation and Administration


References to individual documents are  given  as  ``volume:docu-
ment'',  thus  USD:1 refers to the first document in the ``User's
Supplementary Documents''.  References to manual pages are  given
as  ``name(section)'' thus sh(1) refers to the shell manual entry
in section 1.

The manual pages give descriptions of the features of the  4.4BSD
system, as developed at the University of California at Berkeley.
They do not attempt to provide perspective or  tutorial  informa-
tion  about  the  4.4BSD operating system, its facilities, or its
implementation.  Various documents on those topics are  contained
in  the ``UNIX User's Supplementary Documents'' (USD), the ``UNIX
Programmer's Supplementary Documents'' (PSD), and  ``UNIX  System









- xii -                                              Introduction


Manager's  Manual''  (SMM).   In  particular, for an overview see
``The UNIX Time-Sharing System'' (PSD:1) by Ritchie and Thompson;
for  a  tutorial see ``UNIX for Beginners'' (USD:1) by Kernighan,
and for an guide to the new features of this latest version,  see
``Berkeley  Software Architecture Manual (4.4 Edition)'' (PSD:5).

Within the area it surveys, this volume attempts  to  be  timely,
complete  and concise.  Where the latter two objectives conflict,
the obvious is often left unsaid in  favor  of  brevity.   It  is
intended  that  each  program  be  described  as it is, not as it
should be.  Inevitably, this means  that  various  sections  will
soon be out of date.

Commands  are  programs  intended  to  be invoked directly by the
user, in contrast to subroutines, that are intended to be  called
by  the user's programs.  User commands are described in URM sec-
tion 1.  Commands generally reside in directory /bin (for  binary
programs).   Some programs also reside in /usr/bin, to save space
in /bin.  These directories are  searched  automatically  by  the
command  interpreters.   Additional  directories  that  may be of
interest include /usr/contrib/bin, which has contributed software
/usr/old/bin,  which  has old but sometimes still useful software
and /usr/local/bin, which contains software local to your site.

Games have been relegated to URM section  6  and  /usr/games,  to
keep  them  from  contaminating the more staid information of URM
section 1.

Miscellaneous collection of information necessary for writing  in
various  specialized  languages  such  as  character codes, macro
packages for typesetting, etc is contained in URM section 7.

System calls are entries into the BSD kernel.   The  system  call
interface is identical to a C language procedure call; the equiv-
alent C procedures are described in PRM section 2.

An assortment of subroutines is available; they are described  in
PRM  section 3.  The primary libraries in which they are kept are
described in intro(3).  The functions are described in  terms  of
C.

PRM  section  4  discusses  the  characteristics  of  each system
``file'' that refers to an I/O device.  The names in this section
refer  to the HP300 device names for the hardware, instead of the
names of the special files themselves.

The file formats and conventions (PRM section  5)  documents  the
structure  of particular kinds of files; for example, the form of
the output of the loader and assembler is  given.   Excluded  are
files  used  by  only  one  command,  for example the assembler's
intermediate files.

Commands and procedures intended for use primarily by the  system
administrator   are  described  in  SMM  section  8.   The  files









Introduction                                             - xiii -


described here are almost all kept in the  directory  /etc.   The
system administration binaries reside in /sbin, and /usr/sbin.

Each  section  consists  of  independent  entries of a page or so
each.  The name of the entry is  in  the  upper  corners  of  its
pages,  together  with  the  section number.  Entries within each
section are alphabetized.  The page numbers of each  entry  start
at  1;  it  is  infeasible to number consecutively the pages of a
document like this that is republished in many variant forms.

All entries are based on a common  format;  not  all  subsections
always appear.

     The  name  subsection  lists the exact names of the commands
     and subroutines covered under the entry and  gives  a  short
     description of their purpose.

     The  synopsis  summarizes  the  use  of  the  program  being
     described.  A few conventions are used, particularly in  the
     Commands subsection:

          Boldface  words  are considered literals, and are typed
          just as they appear.

          Square brackets [ ] around an argument  show  that  the
          argument  is  optional.   When  an argument is given as
          ``name'', it always refers to a file name.

          Ellipses ``...'' are used to  show  that  the  previous
          argument-prototype may be repeated.

          A  final convention is used by the commands themselves.
          An argument beginning with a minus sign  ``-''  usually
          means that it is an option-specifying argument, even if
          it appears in  a  position  where  a  file  name  could
          appear.   Therefore,  it  is unwise to have files whose
          names begin with ``-''.

     The description subsection discusses in detail  the  subject
     at hand.

     The files subsection gives the names of files that are built
     into the program.

     A see also subsection gives pointers to related information.

     A  diagnostics  subsection  discusses the diagnostic indica-
     tions that may be produced.  Messages that are  intended  to
     be self-explanatory are not listed.

     The bugs subsection gives known bugs and sometimes deficien-
     cies.  Occasionally the suggested fix is also described.











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At the beginning of URM, PRM, and SSM is a List of Manual  Pages,
organized  by section and alphabetically within each section, and
a Permuted Index derived  from  that  List.   Within  each  index
entry, the title of the writeup to which it refers is followed by
the appropriate section number  in  parentheses.   This  fact  is
important  because  there  is considerable name duplication among
the sections, arising principally from commands that  exist  only
to  exercise  a particular system call.  Finally, there is a list
of documents on the inside back cover of each volume.

























































                      List of Manual Pages

1. Commands and Application Programs

2. System Calls

3. C Library Subroutines

4. Special Files

5. File Formats

6. Games

7. Miscellaneous

8. System Maintenance








































Section 8                                      System Maintenance





- xvi -                                              Manual Pages



























































System Maintenance                                      Section 8









                         Permuted Index























































4.4BSD                                                 April 1994


