intro(8)

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version 6.20 · 17 versions
, in arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

✨ NAME ✨

okay so welcome to intro(8), aka the System Manager's Manual bestie 💖. This is literally the intro to administration and privileged commands.

  • intro — introduction to administration and privileged commands, periodt. 👑

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

okay so Section 8 of the manual describes commands which either can be or are used only by the superuser. It's giving system-administration commands, daemons, and hardware-related commands. 💅

And just like the commands described in Section 1, the commands in this section terminate with an exit status that indicates whether the command succeeded or failed. For more info, go peek at intro(1) bestie. ✨

📝 NOTES 📝

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! 😭

bestie, fr fr, don't assume every page has the same author or copyright vibe — it's page-by-page energy. 🦋

that's the whole intro vibe, bestie — this page is from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08, and it's the intro(8) manual page. 💖✨🎀

📦 where this page comes from
  • arch rolling: man-pages 6.20-1 · BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4.3TAHOE AND BSD-4-Clause-UC AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-linking-exception AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-UltraPermissive AND Linux-man-pages-1-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-2-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-var AND MIT AND Spencer-94
  • nixpkgs unstable: man-pages 6.20
  • 📜 the page's license: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Copyright 2007, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
  • 💖 girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms