[ Home | Search ]

Commands List: S

Select the command you want to read about. You may also go back to the Commands List.

sa
Summarizes accounting records.
sa1
Collects and stores binary data in the /var/adm/su/sa dd file.
sa2
Writes a daily report in the file /var/adm/su/sa dd file.
sact
Displays current SCCS file-editing status.
sadc
Provides a system activity report package.
sar
Collects, reports, or saves system activity information.
savebase
Saves information about base-customized devices in the Device Configuration database onto the boot device.
savecore
Saves a core dump of the operating system.
savevg
Finds and backs up all file belonging to a specified volume group.
scan
Produces a one line per message scan listing.
sccs
Administration program for SCCS commands.
sccsdiff
Compares two versions of a SCCS file.
sccshelp
Provides information about a SCCS message or command.
scls
Produces a list of module and driver names.
script
Makes a typescript of a terminal session.
sdiff
Compares two files and displays the differences in a side-by-side format.
securetcpip
Enables the operating system network security feature.
sed
Provides a stream editor.
send
Sends a message.
sendbug
Mails a system bug report to a specified address.
sendmail
Routes mail for local or network delivery.
setclock
Sets the time and date for a host on a network.
setgroups
Resets the supplimentary group ID for the session.
setmaps
Sets terminal maps or code set maps.
setsenv
Resets the protected state environment of a user.
sh
Invokes the default shell.
shell
Executes a shell with the user's default credentials and environment.
show
Shows messages.
showmount
Displays a list of all clients that have remotely mounted file systems.
shutacct
Turns off processing accounting.
shutdown
Ends system operation.
size
Displays the section sizes of the Extended Common Object File Format (XCOFF) object files.
skulker
Cleans up file systems by removing unwanted files.
slattach
Attaches serial lines as network interfaces.
sleep
Suspends execution for an interval.
slibclean
Removes any currently unused modules in kernel and library memory.
sliplogin
Configures a standard-input terminal line as a Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) link to a remote host.
slocal
Processes incoming mail.
smdemon.cleanu
Cleans up the sendmail queue for periodic housekeeping.
smit
Performs system management.
snap
Gathers system configuration information.
snmpd
Starts the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent daemon as a background process.
snmpinfo
Requests or Modifies values of Management Information Base (MIB) variables managed by a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent.
sno
Provides a SNOBOL interpreter.
soelim
Processes .so requests in nroff command files.
sort
Sorts files, merges files that are already sorted, and checks files to determine if they have been sorted.
sortbib
Sorts a bibliographic database.
sortm
Sorts messages.
spell
Finds English-language spelling errors.
spellin
Creates a spelling list.
spellout
Verifies that a word is not in the spelling list.
split
Splits a file into pieces.
splitlvcopy
Splits copies from one logical volume and creates a new logical volume from them.
splp
Changes or displays printer driver settings.
spost
Routes a message.
spray
Sends a specified number of packets to host and reports performance statistics.
sprayd
Receives packets sent by the spray command.
srcmstr
Starts the System Resource Controller.
srex
Starts the sequential daemon for DSMIT.
startsrc
Starts a subsystem, a group of subsystems, or a subserver.
startup
Turns on the accounting functions at system startup.
startx
Initializes an X session.
statd
Provides crash and recovery functions for the locking services on NFS.
stem
Allows insertion of instrumentation code at the entry and exit points of existing program and library subroutines.
stopsrc
Stops a subsystem, a group of subsystems, or a subserver.
strace
Prints STREAMS trace messages.
strchg
Changes stream configuration.
strclean
Cleans up the STREAMS error logger.
strconf
Queries stream configuration.
strerr
Receives error log messages from the STREAMS log driver.
strinfo
Displays administrative information about STREAMS activity.
strings
Finds the printable strings in an object or binary file.
strip
Reduces the size of an Extended Common Object File Format (XCOFF) object file by removing information used by the binder and symbolic debug program.
stripnm
Displays the symbol information of a specified object file.
strload
Loads and configures Portable Streams Environment (PSE).
strreset
Resets a stream. This command applies to AIX Version 4.2 or later.
struct
Translates a FORTRAN program into a RATFOR program.
stty
Sets, resets, or reports workstation operating parameters.
stty-cxma
Sends and reports the terminal options for 128-port asynchronous controllers.
style
Analyze surface characteristics of a document.
su
Changes the user ID associated with a session.
subj
Generates a list of subjects from a document.
sum
Displays the checksum and block count of a file.
survd
Controls the surveillance daemon.
svmon
Captures and analyzes a snapshot of virtual memory.
swapon
Specifies additional device for paging and swapping.
swcons
Redirects, temporarily, the system console output to a specified device or file.
sync
Updates the i-node table and writes buffered files to the hard disk.
synclvodm
Synchronizes or rebuilds the logical volume control block, the device configuration database, and the volume group descriptor areas on the physical volumes.
syncvg
Synchronizes logical volume copies that are not current.
syscall
Performs a specified subroutine call.
syscalls
Provides system call tracing and counting for specific processes and the system.
sysck
Checks the inventory information during installations and updates procedures.
sysdumpdev
Changes the primary or secondary dump device designation in a running system.
sysdumpstart
Provides a command line interface to start a kernel dump to the primary or secondary dump device.
sysline
Displays system status on the status line of a terminal.
syslogd
Logs system messages.

Go back to the Commands List.