1<HEAD> 2<TITLE>plan 9 man section 8</TITLE> 3</HEAD> 4<BODY> 5<B>[<A HREF="/sys/man/index.html">manual index</A>]</B> 6<H2>Plan 9 from Bell Labs - Section 8 - System Administration</H2> 7<HR> 8<DL> 9<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/0intro">0intro</A> 10- introduction to system administration 11<DD><TT> intro</TT> 12</DT> 13<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/6in4">6in4</A> 14- 6to4 tunnel of IPv6 through IPv4 15<DD><TT> 6in4</TT> 16</DT> 17<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/9boot">9boot</A> 18- PC bootstrap programs 19<DD><TT> 9boot, 9bootpbs, 9load, 9loadusb</TT> 20</DT> 21<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/9pcon">9pcon</A> 22- 9P to text translator 23<DD><TT> 9pcon</TT> 24</DT> 25<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/aan">aan</A> 26- always available network 27<DD><TT> aan</TT> 28</DT> 29<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/aliasmail">aliasmail</A> 30- expand system wide mail aliases 31<DD><TT> aliasmail</TT> 32</DT> 33<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/apm">apm</A> 34- Advanced Power Management 1.2 BIOS interface 35<DD><TT> apm</TT> 36</DT> 37<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/aquarela">aquarela</A> 38- CIFS server 39<DD><TT> aquarela</TT> 40</DT> 41<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/auth">auth</A> 42- maintain or query authentication databases 43<DD><TT> changeuser, convkeys, convkeys2, printnetkey, status, enable, disable, authsrv, guard.srv, debug, wrkey, login, newns, none, as</TT> 44</DT> 45<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/backup">backup</A> 46- backup venti arenas to blu-ray discs or restore from them 47<DD><TT> backup, tobackup, dumparenas, restore</TT> 48</DT> 49<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/boot">boot</A> 50- connect to the root file server 51<DD><TT> boot</TT> 52</DT> 53<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/booting">booting</A> 54- bootstrapping procedures 55<DD><TT> booting</TT> 56</DT> 57<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/cec">cec</A> 58- Coraid Ethernet Console 59<DD><TT> cec</TT> 60</DT> 61<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/cpurc">cpurc</A> 62- boot scripts 63<DD><TT> cpurc, cpurc.local, termrc, termrc.local</TT> 64</DT> 65<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/cron">cron</A> 66- clock daemon 67<DD><TT> cron</TT> 68</DT> 69<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/dhcpd">dhcpd</A> 70- Internet booting 71<DD><TT> dhcpd, dhcpleases, rarpd, tftpd</TT> 72</DT> 73<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/diskparts">diskparts</A> 74- prepare disks for use 75<DD><TT> diskparts, dmaon</TT> 76</DT> 77<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/disksim">disksim</A> 78- disk simulator 79<DD><TT> disksim</TT> 80</DT> 81<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/drawterm">drawterm</A> 82- connect to Plan 9 CPU servers from other operating systems 83<DD><TT> drawterm</TT> 84</DT> 85<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/dsa">dsa</A> 86- generate and format dsa keys 87<DD><TT> dsagen, asn12dsa, dsa2pub, dsa2ssh</TT> 88</DT> 89<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/fossilcons">fossilcons</A> 90- fossil console commands 91<DD><TT> fossilcons</TT> 92</DT> 93<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/fs">fs</A> 94- file server maintenance 95<DD><TT> fs, exsort</TT> 96</DT> 97<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/fsconfig">fsconfig</A> 98- configuring a file server 99<DD><TT> fsconfig</TT> 100</DT> 101<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/fshalt">fshalt</A> 102- halt any local file systems and optionally reboot the system 103<DD><TT> fshalt, reboot</TT> 104</DT> 105<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/getflags">getflags</A> 106- command-line parsing for shell scripts 107<DD><TT> getflags, usage</TT> 108</DT> 109<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/gpsfs">gpsfs</A> 110- GPS time and position service 111<DD><TT> gpsfs, gpsevermore</TT> 112</DT> 113<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/histogram">histogram</A> 114- draw a histogram 115<DD><TT> histogram</TT> 116</DT> 117<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/httpd">httpd</A> 118- HTTP server 119<DD><TT> httpd, save, imagemap, man2html, webls</TT> 120</DT> 121<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/init">init</A> 122- initialize machine upon booting 123<DD><TT> init</TT> 124</DT> 125<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/ipconfig">ipconfig</A> 126- Internet configuration and routing 127<DD><TT> ipconfig, rip, linklocal, ipv6on</TT> 128</DT> 129<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/ipserv">ipserv</A> 130- Internet remote access daemons 131<DD><TT> telnetd, rlogind, rexexec, ftpd</TT> 132</DT> 133<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/kfscmd">kfscmd</A> 134- kfs administration 135<DD><TT> kfscmd, ksync</TT> 136</DT> 137<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/listen">listen</A> 138- listen for calls on a network device 139<DD><TT> listen, listen1, tcp7, tcp9, tcp19, tcp21, tcp22, tcp23, tcp25, tcp53, tcp110, tcp113, tcp143, tcp513, tcp515, tcp564, tcp565, tcp566, tcp567, tcp993, tcp995, tcp1723, tcp17007, tcp17008, tcp17009, tcp17010, tcp17013</TT> 140</DT> 141<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/loadfossil">loadfossil</A> 142- populate a fossil filesystem 143<DD><TT> loadfossil</TT> 144</DT> 145<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/lp">lp</A> 146- PostScript preprocessors 147<DD><TT> lp</TT> 148</DT> 149<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/mk9660">mk9660</A> 150- create an ISO-9660 CD image 151<DD><TT> dump9660, mk9660</TT> 152</DT> 153<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/mkflashfs">mkflashfs</A> 154- make a journalling file system for flash memory 155<DD><TT> mkflashfs</TT> 156</DT> 157<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/mkfs">mkfs</A> 158- archive or update a file system 159<DD><TT> mkfs, mkext</TT> 160</DT> 161<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/mkpaqfs">mkpaqfs</A> 162- make a compressed read-only file system 163<DD><TT> mkpaqfs</TT> 164</DT> 165<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/mkusbboot">mkusbboot</A> 166- generate bootable USB or other disk image for PC 167<DD><TT> mkusbboot</TT> 168</DT> 169<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/mouse">mouse</A> 170- configure a mouse to a port 171<DD><TT> aux/mouse, aux/accupoint</TT> 172</DT> 173<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/na">na</A> 174- assembler for the Symbios Logic PCI-SCSI I/O Processors 175<DD><TT> na</TT> 176</DT> 177<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/ndb">ndb</A> 178- network database 179<DD><TT> query, ipquery, mkhash, mkdb, mkhosts, cs, csquery, dns, dnstcp, dnsquery, dnsdebug, inform</TT> 180</DT> 181<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/newuser">newuser</A> 182- adding a new user 183<DD><TT> newuser</TT> 184</DT> 185<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/nfsserver">nfsserver</A> 186- NFS service 187<DD><TT> nfsserver, portmapper, pcnfsd</TT> 188</DT> 189<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/partfs">partfs</A> 190- serve file, with partitions 191<DD><TT> partfs</TT> 192</DT> 193<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/pci">pci</A> 194- print PCI bus configuration 195<DD><TT> pci</TT> 196</DT> 197<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/pcmcia">pcmcia</A> 198- identify a PCMCIA card 199<DD><TT> pcmcia</TT> 200</DT> 201<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/pem">pem</A> 202- encode files in Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) format 203<DD><TT> pemdecode, pemencode</TT> 204</DT> 205<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/ping">ping</A> 206- probe the Internet 207<DD><TT> ping, gping, traceroute, hogports</TT> 208</DT> 209<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/plan9.ini">plan9.ini</A> 210- configuration file primarily for PCs 211<DD><TT> plan9.ini</TT> 212</DT> 213<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/pop3">pop3</A> 214- Internet mail servers 215<DD><TT> pop3, imap4d</TT> 216</DT> 217<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/ppp">ppp</A> 218- point-to-point protocol 219<DD><TT> ppp, pppoe, pptp, pptpd</TT> 220</DT> 221<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/prep">prep</A> 222- prepare disks, floppies and flashes 223<DD><TT> prep, fdisk, format, mbr</TT> 224</DT> 225<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/qer">qer</A> 226- queue management for spooled files 227<DD><TT> qer, runq</TT> 228</DT> 229<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/reboot">reboot</A> 230- reboot the system upon loss of remote file server connection 231<DD><TT> reboot</TT> 232</DT> 233<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/replica">replica</A> 234- simple client-server replica management 235<DD><TT> applychanges, applylog, compactdb, updatedb</TT> 236</DT> 237<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/rsa">rsa</A> 238- generate and format rsa keys 239<DD><TT> rsagen, rsafill, asn12rsa, rsa2pub, rsa2ssh, rsa2x509</TT> 240</DT> 241<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/scanmail">scanmail</A> 242- spam filters 243<DD><TT> scanmail, testscan</TT> 244</DT> 245<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/screenlock">screenlock</A> 246- disable access to a terminal 247<DD><TT> screenlock</TT> 248</DT> 249<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/scuzz">scuzz</A> 250- SCSI target control 251<DD><TT> scuzz</TT> 252</DT> 253<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/secstore">secstore</A> 254- secstore commands 255<DD><TT> secstored, secuser</TT> 256</DT> 257<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/securenet">securenet</A> 258- Digital Pathways SecureNet Key remote authentication box 259<DD><TT> securenet</TT> 260</DT> 261<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/send">send</A> 262- mail routing and delivery 263<DD><TT> send</TT> 264</DT> 265<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/smtp">smtp</A> 266- mail transport 267<DD><TT> smtp, smtpd</TT> 268</DT> 269<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/snoopy">snoopy</A> 270- spy on network packets 271<DD><TT> snoopy</TT> 272</DT> 273<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/stats">stats</A> 274- display graphs of system activity 275<DD><TT> stats</TT> 276</DT> 277<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/statusbar">statusbar</A> 278- display a bar graph status window 279<DD><TT> statusbar</TT> 280</DT> 281<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/stub">stub</A> 282- provide mount point stubs 283<DD><TT> stub</TT> 284</DT> 285<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/swap">swap</A> 286- establish a swap file 287<DD><TT> swap</TT> 288</DT> 289<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/timesync">timesync</A> 290- synchronize the system clock to a time source 291<DD><TT> timesync</TT> 292</DT> 293<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/tlssrv">tlssrv</A> 294- TLS server and client 295<DD><TT> tlssrv, tlsclient, tlssrvtunnel, tlsclienttunnel</TT> 296</DT> 297<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/trampoline">trampoline</A> 298- forward incoming calls to another address 299<DD><TT> trampoline</TT> 300</DT> 301<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/udpecho">udpecho</A> 302- echo UDP packets 303<DD><TT> udpecho</TT> 304</DT> 305<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/update">update</A> 306- administration for local file systems 307<DD><TT> bootfloppy, bootplan9, bootwin9x, bootwinnt, personalize, setup.9fat, setup.disk, setup.kfs, update</TT> 308</DT> 309<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/venti">venti</A> 310- archival storage server 311<DD><TT> venti</TT> 312</DT> 313<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/venti-backup">venti-backup</A> 314- copy arenas between venti servers 315<DD><TT> rdarena, wrarena</TT> 316</DT> 317<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/venti-fmt">venti-fmt</A> 318- prepare and maintain a venti server 319<DD><TT> buildindex, checkarenas, checkindex, conf, fmtarenas, fmtbloom, fmtindex, fmtisect, syncindex</TT> 320</DT> 321<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/vga">vga</A> 322- configure a VGA card 323<DD><TT> vga</TT> 324</DT> 325<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/watchdog">watchdog</A> 326- reset the system if it gets stuck 327<DD><TT> watchdog</TT> 328</DT> 329<DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/8/wol">wol</A> 330- send wake-on-lan Ethernet packet 331<DD><TT> wol</TT> 332</DT> 333</DL> 334