INTRO(8)                            Linux Programmer's Manual                            INTRO(8)



NAME
       intro - introduction to administration and privileged commands

DESCRIPTION
       Section  8  of  the  manual describes commands which either can be or are used only by the
       superuser, like system-administration commands, daemons, and hardware-related commands.

       As with the commands in described Section 1, the commands described in this section termi‐
       nate  with  an  exit  status  that indicates whether the command succeeded or failed.  See
       intro(1) for more information.

NOTES
   Authors and copyright conditions
       Look at the header of the manual page source for the author(s) and  copyright  conditions.
       Note that these can be different from page to page!

COLOPHON
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       project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of  this  page,  can  be
       found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                                       2007-10-23                                   INTRO(8)