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The .Nm utility

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gnu/usr.bin/man/makewhatis/makewhatis.local.8
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.Op options
.Ar directories ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
start
utility starts
.Xr makewhatis 1
only for file systems physically mounted on the system
where the
@ -51,8 +52,9 @@ your NFS server -- all NFS clients start makewhatis at the same time!
So use this wrapper for
.Xr cron 8
instead of calling makewhatis directly.
The
.Nm catman.local
is using for same purposes as
utility is using for same purposes as
.Nm
but for
.Xr catman 1 .
@ -76,5 +78,5 @@ every week
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
utility appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .

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usr.bin/ktrdump/ktrdump.8
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@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
command is used to dump the contents of the kernel ktr trace buffer.
utility is used to dump the contents of the kernel ktr trace buffer.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width ".Fl e Ar execfile"
@ -68,13 +68,13 @@ The default is standard output.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command first appeared in
utility first appeared in
.Fx 5.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
command was implemented by
utility was implemented by
.An Jake Burkholder Aq jake@FreeBSD.org .
.Pp
This manual page was written by

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usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.updatedb.8
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Locate.updatedb
updates the database used by
The
.Nm
utility updates the database used by
.Xr locate 1 .
It is typically run once a week by the
.Pa /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate

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@ -37,8 +37,9 @@
.Op options
.Ar directories ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
start
utility starts
.Xr makewhatis 1
only for file systems physically mounted on the system
where the
@ -51,8 +52,9 @@ your NFS server -- all NFS clients start makewhatis at the same time!
So use this wrapper for
.Xr cron 8
instead of calling makewhatis directly.
The
.Nm catman.local
is using for same purposes as
utility is using for same purposes as
.Nm
but for
.Xr catman 1 .
@ -76,5 +78,5 @@ every week
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
utility appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .

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usr.bin/newkey/newkey.8
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@ -12,8 +12,9 @@
.Nm
.Fl u Ar username
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Newkey
is normally run by the network administrator on the
The
.Nm
utility is normally run by the network administrator on the
Network Interface Service
(\s-1NIS\s0)
master machine in order to establish public keys for
@ -23,8 +24,9 @@ RPC
or secure
NFS\s0.
.Pp
.Nm Newkey
will prompt for the login password of the given username and then
The
.Nm
utility will prompt for the login password of the given username and then
create a new public/secret key pair in
.Pa /etc/publickey
encrypted with the login password of the given user.

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@ -45,25 +45,27 @@
.Op Oo Fl g Oc Ar pgrp ...
.Op Oo Fl u Oc Ar user ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Renice
alters the
The
.Nm
utility alters the
scheduling priority of one or more running processes.
The following
.Ar who
parameters are interpreted as process ID's, process group
ID's, user ID's or user names.
.Nm Renice Ns 'ing
a process group causes all processes in the process group
The
.Nm Ns 'ing
of a process group causes all processes in the process group
to have their scheduling priority altered.
.Nm Renice Ns 'ing
a user causes all processes owned by the user to have
The
.Nm Ns 'ing
of a user causes all processes owned by the user to have
their scheduling priority altered.
By default, the processes to be affected are specified by
their process ID's.
.Pp
Options supported by
.Nm :
.Bl -tag -width Ds
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl g
Force
.Ar who
@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ Force the
.Ar who
parameters to be interpreted as user names or user ID's.
.It Fl p
Resets the
Reset the
.Ar who
interpretation to be (the default) process ID's.
.El
@ -126,7 +128,7 @@ utility conforms to
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
utility appeared in
.Bx 4.0 .
.Sh BUGS
Non super-users cannot increase scheduling priorities of their own processes,

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@ -46,8 +46,9 @@
.Op Fl ade3
.Op Ar host
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Showmount
shows status information about the
The
.Nm
utility shows status information about the
.Tn NFS
server on
.Ar host .
@ -63,7 +64,9 @@ and
.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" ,
Appendix I,
for a detailed description of the protocol.
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl a
List all mount points in the form:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent -compact
@ -76,7 +79,9 @@ Show the
.Ar host Ns 's
exports list.
.It Fl 3
Use mount protocol Version 3, compatible with NFS Version 3.
Use mount protocol Version 3, compatible with
.Tn NFS
Version 3.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mount 8 ,
@ -87,8 +92,9 @@ The mount daemon running on the server only has an idea of the actual mounts,
since the
.Tn NFS
server is stateless.
.Nm Showmount
will only display the information
The
.Nm
utility will only display the information
as accurately as the mount daemon reports it.
.Sh HISTORY
The

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.Oc
.Op Ar disks
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Vmstat
reports certain kernel statistics kept about process, virtual memory,
The
.Nm
utility reports certain kernel statistics kept about process, virtual memory,
disk, trap and cpu activity.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
@ -251,7 +252,9 @@ cause the display to exceed 80 columns, however.
To force
.Nm
to display specific drives, their names may be supplied on the command line.
The
.Nm
utility
defaults to show disks first, and then various other random devices in the
system to add up to three devices, if there are that many devices in the
system. If devices are specified on the command line, or if a device type

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.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
utility appeared in
.Bx 3.0 .
This version re-implements the historical
functionality that was lost in