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 described in Section 1, the commands described in this section terminate with an exit status that indicates whether the command succeeded or failed.

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30-systemd-environment-d-generator
systemd-environment-d-generator, 30-systemd-environment-d-generator - Load variables specified by environment.d
Burrow
Apache Kafka consumer lag checking
Crack-Reporter
Crack, Reporter - programs to break password files
Crack
Crack, Reporter - programs to break password files
LCDd
LCDproc server daemon  
MAKEDEV
create devices
MAKEFLOPPIES
Creates the default floppy device nodes.  
ModemManager
mobile broadband modem management daemon  
MySecureShell
Command
NetworkManager-dispatcher
Dispatch user scripts for NetworkManager
NetworkManager-wait-online.service
Wait for the network to come online
NetworkManager
network management daemon
Orthanc
Lightweight, RESTful DICOM server for healthcare and medical research
OrthancRecoverCompressedFile
Orthanc - Lightweight, RESTful DICOM server for healthcare and medical research
SNHELLO
HELLO - perform initial conversation with a newsserver (used by sn news system)
SNPOST
POST - Handle a part of posting messages (used by sn news system)
VBoxControl
x86 virtualization solution
VBoxService
x86 virtualization solution
VpbConfigurator
Generate configuration files for libvpb
Xdummy
A hack to run Xorg or XFree86 X server with the "dummy" video driver
_updown
ipsec _updown - route and firewall manipulation script
_updown_espmark
ipsec _updown_espmark - manages routes and firewall rules
a-rex-backtrace-collect
processes core file(s) generated by arched and produces backtrace(s).  
a2disconf
a2enconf, a2disconf - enable or disable an apache2 configuration file
a2dismod
a2enmod, a2dismod - enable or disable an apache2 module
a2dissite
a2ensite, a2dissite - enable or disable an apache2 site / virtual host
a2enconf
a2enconf, a2disconf - enable or disable an apache2 configuration file
a2enmod
a2enmod, a2dismod - enable or disable an apache2 module
a2ensite
a2ensite, a2dissite - enable or disable an apache2 site / virtual host
aa-audit
set an AppArmor security profile to audit mode
aa-autodep
guess basic AppArmor profile requirements
aa-cleanprof
clean an existing AppArmor security profile
aa-complain
set an AppArmor security profile to complain mode
aa-decode
decode hex-encoded in AppArmor log files
aa-disable
disable an AppArmor security profile
aa-easyprof
AppArmor profile generation made easy
aa-enforce
set an AppArmor security profile to enforce mode from being disabled or complain mode
aa-genprof
profile generation utility for AppArmor
aa-logprof
utility for updating AppArmor security profiles
aa-mergeprof
merge AppArmor security profiles
aa-notify
display information about logged AppArmor messages
aa-remove-unknown
remove unknown AppArmor profiles
aa-status
display various information about the current AppArmor policy
aa-teardown
unload all AppArmor profiles
aa-unconfined
output a list of processes with tcp or udp ports that do not have AppArmor profiles loaded
aa-update-browser
update browser profiles with browser abstractions
accessdb
dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable format
acctdump
accounting data dump utility
accton
turns process accounting on or off
acmetool
request certificates from ACME servers automatically
acngfs
Virtual file system for use with apt-cacher-ng
acorn-fdisk
partition editor for Acorn/RISC OS machines
acpi_listen
ACPI event listener
acpid
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon
actctrl
configure IBM Active 2000 ISDN adaptor
actsync
actsync, actsyncd - Synchronize newsgroups
actsyncd
actsync, actsyncd - Synchronize newsgroups
adcli
Tool for performing actions on an Active Directory domain
add-shell
add shells to the list of valid login shells
addftpuser
set up anonymous FTP user   rmftpuser - remove anonymous FTP user
addgnupghome
Create .gnupg home directories
addgroup
adduser, addgroup - add or manipulate users or groups
addpart
tell the kernel about the existence of a partition
addrconsole
Setup a new remote console user
adduser
adduser, addgroup - add or manipulate users or groups
adduser.local
adduser.local, deluser.local - hook for local actions in adduser and deluser
adelsystem_cbi
Driver for the ADELSYSTEM CB/CBI DC-UPS
adjtimex
display or set the kernel time variables
adjtimexconfig
find kernel clock variables and save for reboots
afl-analyze
afl-analyze
afl-as
afl-as
afl-c++
afl-cc - afl-cc++4.04c by Michal Zalewski, Laszlo Szekeres, Marc Heuse
afl-cc
afl-cc++4.04c by Michal Zalewski, Laszlo Szekeres, Marc Heuse
afl-clang-fast++
afl-cc - afl-cc++4.04c by Michal Zalewski, Laszlo Szekeres, Marc Heuse
afl-clang-fast
afl-cc - afl-cc++4.04c by Michal Zalewski, Laszlo Szekeres, Marc Heuse
afl-clang-lto++
afl-cc - afl-cc++4.04c by Michal Zalewski, Laszlo Szekeres, Marc Heuse
afl-clang-lto
afl-cc - afl-cc++4.04c by Michal Zalewski, Laszlo Szekeres, Marc Heuse
afl-cmin
afl-cmin
afl-cmin.bash
afl-cmin.bash
afl-fuzz
afl-fuzz
afl-g++-fast
afl-cc - afl-cc++4.04c by Michal Zalewski, Laszlo Szekeres, Marc Heuse
afl-gcc-fast
afl-cc - afl-cc++4.04c by Michal Zalewski, Laszlo Szekeres, Marc Heuse
afl-gotcpu
afl-gotcpu
afl-lto++
afl-cc - afl-cc++4.04c by Michal Zalewski, Laszlo Szekeres, Marc Heuse
afl-lto
afl-cc - afl-cc++4.04c by Michal Zalewski, Laszlo Szekeres, Marc Heuse
afl-persistent-config
afl-persistent-config
afl-plot
afl-plot
afl-showmap
afl-showmap
afl-system-config
afl-system-config
afl-tmin
afl-tmin
afl-whatsup
afl-whatsup
afs-newcell
Set up initial database server for AFS cell
afs-rootvol
Generate and populate root volumes for new AFS cells
afsd
afsd, afsd.fuse - Initializes the Cache Manager and starts related daemons
afsd.fuse
afsd, afsd.fuse - Initializes the Cache Manager and starts related daemons
agetty
alternative Linux getty
ahcpd
ad-hoc configuration daemon
aideinit
create a new AIDE database
airbase-ng
multi-purpose tool aimed at attacking clients as opposed to the Access Point (AP) itself
aireplay-ng
inject packets into a wireless network to generate traffic