.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), .\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 .\" and Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Kerrisk .\" .\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL) .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of .\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" .\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any .\" document formatting or typesetting system, including .\" intermediate and printed output. .\" .\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public .\" License along with this manual; if not, see .\" . .\" %%%LICENSE_END .\" .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:35:48 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" 2007-10-23 mtk: minor rewrites, and added paragraph on exit status .\" .TH INTRO 8 2007-10-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME intro \- introduction to administration and privileged commands .SH 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. .PP 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. See .BR intro (1) for more information. .SH NOTES .SS 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! .SH COLOPHON This page is part of release 4.16 of the Linux .I man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at \%https://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.