The inittab file and the /etc/init.d scripts. The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot your Red Hat system, change runlevels, and shut the system down cleanly. Initscripts also contains the scripts that activate and ...
Tools for managing Linux kernel packet filtering capabilities. Linux IP Firewalling Chains is an update to (and hopefully an improvement upon) the Linux kernel packet filtering code. Ipchains allows you to set up firewalls and IP masquerading.
Tools for managing Linux kernel packet filtering capabilities. The iptables utility controls the network packet filtering code in the Linux kernel. If you need to set up firewalls and/or IP masquerading, you should install this package.
IPv6 support for iptables. The iptables package contains IPv6 (the next version of the IP protocol) support for iptables. Iptables controls the Linux kernel network packet filtering code, allowing you to set up firewalls and ...
Utilities for managing the JFS filesystem. The jfsutils package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in JFS filesystems. The following utilities are available: fsck.jfs - ...
Utilities for configuring most popular joysticks. The Linux Joystick Driver provides support for a variety of joysticks and similar devices. This package includes several utilities for setting up, calibrating, and testing your joystick.
Tools for configuring the console (keyboard, virtual terminals, etc.) The kbd package contains tools for managing a Linux system's console's behavior, including the keyboard, the screen fonts, the virtual terminals and font files.
Kernel and Hardware related utilities Kernel-utils contains several utilities that can be used to control the kernel or your machines hardware. Included are * dmidecode - gives information about the bios and motherboard revisisons * ...
Kerberos 5 programs for use on workstations. Kerberos is a network authentication system. The krb5-workstation package contains the basic Kerberos programs (kinit, klist, kdestroy, kpasswd) as well as kerberized versions of Telnet and FTP. If ...
Printing library for GNOME. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-print package ...
Printing libraries for GNOME. This package contains the printing apparatus for GNOME, the complete graphical desktop environment based entirely on free software.
Printing library for GNOME. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-print package ...
A user and group account administration library. The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating and administering user and group accounts. The library uses pluggable back-ends to interface to its data sources. Sample ...
The boot loader for Linux and other operating systems. LILO (LInux LOader) is a basic system program which boots your Linux system. LILO loads the Linux kernel from a floppy or a hard drive, boots the kernel and passes control of the system to the ...
Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files. The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and ...
Programs for setting up and configuring loopback devices. Linux supports a special block device called the loop device, which maps a normal file onto a virtual block device. This allows for the file to be used as a "virtual file system" inside another file. ...
Linux Logical Volume Manager utilities. LVM includes all of the support for handling read/write operations on physical volumes (hard disks, RAID-Systems, magneto optical, etc., multiple devices (MD), see mdadd(8) or even loop devices, see ...
Associates helper applications with particular file types. The mailcap file is used by the metamail program. Metamail reads the mailcap file to determine how it should display non-text or multimedia material. Basically, mailcap associates a particular type ...
A program used for creating device files in /dev. This package contains the MAKEDEV program, which makes it easier to create and maintain the files in the /dev directory. /dev directory files correspond to a particular device supported by Linux ...
A set of documentation tools: man, apropos and whatis. The man package includes three tools for finding information and/or documentation about your Linux system: man, apropos, and whatis. The man system formats and displays on-line manual pages about ...
mdadm controls Linux md devices (software RAID arrays) Mdadm is used to create, manage, and monitor Linux MD (software RAID) devices. As such, it provides similar functionality to the raidtools package. However, mdadm is a single program, and it can ...
A compact getty program for virtual consoles only. The mingetty program is a lightweight, minimalist getty program for use only on virtual consoles. Mingetty is not suitable for serial lines (you should use the mgetty program in that case).
Creates a boot floppy disk for booting a system. The mkbootdisk program creates a standalone boot floppy disk for booting the running system. The created boot disk will look for the root filesystem on the device mentioned in /etc/fstab and includes ...
Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules. Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root ...
A small utility for safely making /tmp files. The mktemp utility takes a given file name template and overwrites a portion of it to create a unique file name. This allows shell scripts and other programs to safely create and use /tmp files. ...
Programs for mounting and unmounting filesystems. The mount package contains the mount, umount, swapon, and swapoff programs. Accessible files on your system are arranged in one big tree or hierarchy. These files can be spread out over several ...
Basic networking tools. The net-tools package contains basic networking tools, including ifconfig, netstat, route, and others.
NSS library and PAM module for LDAP. This package includes two LDAP access clients: nss_ldap and pam_ldap. Nss_ldap is a set of C library extensions that allow X.500 and LDAP directory servers to be used as a primary source of aliases, ...
A tool to set the stop/start of system services in a runlevel. Ntsysv provides a simple interface for setting which system services are started or stopped in various runlevels (instead of directly manipulating the numerous symbolic links in /etc/rc.d). Unless ...
A security tool which provides authentication for applications. PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs that handle authentication.
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