ChorusOS 5.0 Features and Architecture Overview

System Administration Commands

The ChorusOS operating system offers a range of commands for system administration, which can be accessed via the command interpreter or included in the sysadm.ini file.

Command 

Description 

akill

Kills an actor 

aps

Displays the list of all actors running on the target system 

arp

Address resolution display and control 

arun

Runs actor_name on the target system

chat

Automated conversational script with a modem 

chorusNSinet

ChorusOS name servers 

chorusNSsite

ChorusOS name servers 

chorusStat

Print information about ChorusOS resources 

configurator

ChorusOS configuration utility 

console

Starts a command interpreter on the console of the target system 

cp

Copy files 

cs

Report the status of ChorusOS resources 

date

Print and set the date 

dd

Convert and copy a file 

df

Display free disk space 

dhclient

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol client 

disklabel

Read and write disk pack label 

domainname

Set or display the name of the current YP/NIS domain 

dtree

Displays all connected devices in the target device tree 

echo

Echoes arguments to standard output 

env

Displays the current environment 

ethIpcStackAttach

Attaches the IPC stack to an Ethernet device 

flashdefrag

Defragment a flash memory device 

format

Format a Flash memory device 

fsck

File system consistency check and interactive repair 

fsck_dos

Create an MS-DOS (FAT) file system 

ftp

ARPANET file transfer program 

ftpd

Internet File Transfer Protocol server 

help

Displays a brief message summarizing available commands 

hostname

Set or print name of current host system 

ifconfig

Configure network interface parameters 

ifwait

Waits for an interface to be set up 

inetNS

Internet name servers 

inetNSdns

Internet name servers 

inetNShost

Internet name servers 

inetNSien116

Internet name servers 

inetNSnis

Internet name servers 

ls

List directory contents 

memstat

Displays information about current memory usage 

mkdev

Creates a device interface 

mkfd

Create a bootable floppy disk from a ChorusOS boot image 

mkdir

Create directories 

mkfifo

Make FIFOs 

mkfs

Replaced by newfs

mkmerge

Create a merged tree 

mknod

Build special file 

mount

Mount file systems 

mountd

NFS daemon providing remote mount services 

mount_msdos

Mount an MSDOS file system 

mount_nfs

Mount an NFS file system 

mv

Move files 

netstat

Show network status 

newfs

Construct a new file system 

newfs_dos

Create an MS-DOS (FAT) file system 

nfsd

NFS daemon providing remote NFS services 

nfsstat

Display NFS statistics 

pax

Read and write file archives and copy directory hierarchies 

ping

Requests an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from the specified host

pppclose

Requests that pppstart daemon starts a thread to open a PPP line on device

pppd

Point-to-Point Protocol command 

pppstart

Enables client PPP connections 

pppstop

Disables PPP services on the target system 

PROF

ChorusOS profiler server 

profctl

ChorusOS profiling control tool 

profrpg

ChorusOS profiling report generator 

rarp

Sets the IP address of the Ethernet interface 

rdbc

ChorusOS remote debugging daemon 

reboot

Kills all actors on the target system 

restart

Restarts the system 

rm

Remove directory entries 

rmdir

Remove directories 

route

Manipulate the routing tables manually 

rpcbind

DARPA port to RPC program number mapper 

rshd

Command interpreter based on the remote shell protocol 

setenv

Sets an environment variable 

shutdown

Shut down and reboot or restart the system, change system state 

sleep

Suspends execution of current thread 

source

Reads and executes commands in file 

swapon

Specify additional device for swapping 

syncd

Update disks periodically 

sysctl

Get or set microkernel state 

sysenv

ChorusOS operating system environment 

telnetd

Telnet Protocol server 

touch

Change file access and modification times 

ulimit

Sets or displays resource limits 

umask

Displays or sets the file creation mask 

umount

Unmount file systems 

uname

Display information about the system 

unsetenv

Sets the environment variable 

ypbind

NIS binder process 

ypcat

Print the values of all keys in a YP database 

ypmatch

Print the values of one or more keys in a YP database 

ypwhich

Return the name of the NIS server or map master