INTRO(8) - System Manager’s Manual # INTRO(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # intro - introduction to system maintenance and operation commands
DESCRIPTION # The manual pages in section 8 contain information related to system operation and maintenance. They describe commands concerning file systems, such as edquota(8), fsck(8), mount(8), and newfs(8). They also cover commands concerning system backup/recovery, such as dump(8) and restore(8).
There are pages which document the running of the system, such as afterboot(8), ifconfig(8), security(8), and the configuration files located in /etc.
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LDCONFIG(8) - System Manager’s Manual # LDCONFIG(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # ldconfig - configure the shared library cache
SYNOPSIS # ldconfig [-mRrsUv] [path …]
DESCRIPTION # ldconfig is used to prepare a set of “hints” for use by the run-time linker ld.so(1) to facilitate quick lookup of shared libraries available in multiple directories. It scans a set of built-in system directories and any directories specified on the command line (in the given order) looking for shared libraries and stores the results in the file /var/run/ld.
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LDPD(8) - System Manager’s Manual # LDPD(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # ldpd - Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) routing daemon
SYNOPSIS # ldpd [-dnv] [-D macro=value] [-f file] [-s socket]
DESCRIPTION # ldpd is the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) daemon, which distributes MPLS label mappings between routers.
A running ldpd can be controlled with the ldpctl(8) utility.
The options are as follows:
-D macro=value
Define macro to be set to value on the command line.
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NETSTART(8) - System Manager’s Manual # NETSTART(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # netstart - network startup script
SYNOPSIS # sh /etc/netstart [-n] [interface …]
DESCRIPTION # netstart is a sh(1) script invoked by rc(8) during an automatic reboot and after single-user mode is exited; it performs network initialization.
netstart can also be used to start newly created interfaces. Its behaviour is controlled to some extent by variables defined in rc.
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NTPD(8) - System Manager’s Manual # NTPD(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # ntpd - Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon
SYNOPSIS # ntpd [-dnv] [-f file]
DESCRIPTION # The ntpd daemon synchronizes the local clock to one or more remote NTP servers or local timedelta sensors. ntpd can also act as an NTP server itself, redistributing the local time. It implements the Simple Network Time Protocol version 4, as described in RFC 5905, and the Network Time Protocol version 3, as described in RFC 1305.
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PFCTL(8) - System Manager’s Manual # PFCTL(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # pfctl - control the packet filter (PF) device
SYNOPSIS # pfctl [-deghNnPqrvz] [-a anchor] [-D macro=value] [-F modifier] [-f file] [-i interface] [-K key] [-k key] [-L statefile] [-o level] [-p device] [-S statefile] [-s modifier [-R id]] [-t table -T command [address …]] [-V rdomain] [-x level]
DESCRIPTION # The pfctl utility communicates with the packet filter device using the ioctl interface described in pf(4).
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RADIUSD(8) - System Manager’s Manual # RADIUSD(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # radiusd - Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) daemon
SYNOPSIS # radiusd [-dn] [-f file]
DESCRIPTION # The radiusd daemon implements the RADIUS protocol.
To have radiusd enabled at boot time, use “rcctl enable radiusd”, which sets
radiusd_flags="" in rc.conf.local(8).
The options are as follows:
-d
Do not daemonize, log to stderr instead of syslog(3), and produce some additional debugging output.
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RC.D(8) - System Manager’s Manual # RC.D(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # rc.d - daemon control scripts
SYNOPSIS # /etc/rc.d/daemon‌ [-df] action
DESCRIPTION # The /etc/rc.d directory contains ksh(1) scripts to start, stop, and reconfigure daemon programs (“services”).
Services installed from packages(7) may be started at boot time in the order specified by the pkg_scripts variable from rc.conf(8); the order will be reversed during shutdown. Services comprising OpenBSD base are started by rc(8).
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RC.SHUTDOWN(8) - System Manager’s Manual # RC.SHUTDOWN(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # rc.shutdown - command script run at system shutdown
DESCRIPTION # When the system is shut down using the reboot(8) or halt(8) commands, or when init(8) is signalled to do so, or when a keyboard-requested halt is issued (if the architecture supports it), rc(8) is invoked with the argument “shutdown”. This document details the actions taken by rc(8) in such an instance.
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RC.SUBR(8) - System Manager’s Manual # RC.SUBR(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # rc.subr - daemon control scripts routines
SYNOPSIS # daemon=path_to_executable‌
. /etc/rc.d/rc.subr
rc_cmd action
DESCRIPTION # Apart from a few notable exceptions, rc scripts must follow this naming policy:
When possible, use the same name as the daemon it is referring to. It must follow ksh(1) variable naming: begin with an alphabetic or underscore character, followed by one or more alphanumeric or underscore characters.
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