man8/intro.8

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  29 .TH INTRO 8 2007-10-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
  30 .SH NAME
  31 intro \- introduction to administration and privileged commands
  32 .SH DESCRIPTION
  33 Section 8 of the manual describes commands
  34 which either can be or are used only by the superuser,
  35 like system-administration commands, daemons,
  36 and hardware-related commands.
  37 .PP
  38 As with the commands described in Section 1, the commands described
  39 in this section terminate with an exit status that indicates
  40 whether the command succeeded or failed.
  41 See
  42 .BR intro (1)
  43 for more information.
  44 .SH NOTES
  45 .SS Authors and copyright conditions
  46 Look at the header of the manual page source for the author(s) and copyright
  47 conditions.
  48 Note that these can be different from page to page!