intro(8)

intro8

Introduction to administration and privileged commands

Overview

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. See intro(1) for more information.

Notes

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!

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 1.1–2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1–4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. Arch

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.