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The perf subsystem of Linux kernels from 2.6.37 up to 3.8.8 and RHEL6 kernel 2.6.32 contained a security vulnerability (CVE-2013-2094), which was exploited to gain root privileges by a local user. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The problem was due to an incorrect type being used (32-bit int instead of 64-bit) in the event_id verification code path.
Displays how a name would be interpreted if used as a command ulimit: Misc Optional (XSI) Set or report file size limit umask: Misc Mandatory Get or set the file mode creation mask System III unalias: Misc Mandatory Remove alias definitions uname: Misc Mandatory Return system name PWB UNIX uncompress: Misc Optional (XSI) Expand compressed data ...
Does nothing, but exits unsuccessfully groups: Prints the groups of which the user is a member hostid: Prints the numeric identifier for the current host id: Prints real or effective UID and GID: link: Creates a link to a file logname: Print the user's login name nice: Modifies scheduling priority nohup: Allows a command to continue running ...
The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems.
A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a command line user interface for Unix-like operating systems. The shell is both an interactive command language and a scripting language, and is used by the operating system to control the execution of the system using shell scripts. [2]
systemctl is a command to introspect and control the state of the systemd system and service manager. Not to be confused with sysctl . systemd-analyze may be used to determine system boot-up performance statistics and retrieve other state and tracing information from the system and service manager.
After navigating a command-line shell to the directory that contains the source code, the following commands are typically executed: [1] ./configure make make install For the Autotools, the configure script logs status and errors to file config.log , and the command ./configure --help outputs command line help information.
The Linux console is a system console internal to the Linux kernel. A system console is the device which receives all kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user mode. [ 1 ] The Linux console provides a way for the kernel and other processes to send text output to the user, and to receive text input from the user.