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.TH INTRO 8 2007-10-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
intro \- introduction to administration and privileged commands
.SH 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.
.PP
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
.BR intro (1)
for more information.
.SH NOTES
.SS Authors and copyright conditions
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conditions.
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