intro (8)

Leading comments

Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
        Fri Apr  2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
and Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

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The GNU General Public License's references to "object code"
and ...

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man8/intro.8".)

NAME

intro - introduction to administration and privileged commands

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.
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

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COLOPHON

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