CONTROL(8)

NAME
control - control installed system facilities

SYNOPSIS
control [ FACILITY [help|list|status|summary|STATUS] ]

DESCRIPTION
control provides a common interface to register and control system facilities.

This is intended primarily for facilities that can potentially be dangerous to system security, to let you enable, disable, or configure the facility independently from package installation.

When run with no arguments, control lists all available facilities, their current status, and their supported settings.

When a FACILITY name is specified, control may print facility summary, list its supported settings or print short help text for them, report its current status (default action), or switch it to a new STATUS.

FILES
/etc/control.d/facilities/ - installed system facilities' control scripts to be invoked by control
/etc/control.d/functions - common shell functions used by the above scripts

HISTORY
control first appeared in Openwall GNU/*/Linux 0.1.

AUTHORS
Solar Designer <solar@owl.openwall.com>

SEE ALSO
chkconfig(8), control-dump(8)