In many cases it may be preferrable to be able to perform maintenance and management tasks for the command line of the Linux host system.  This sections describes how to set up the PATH environment variable to use these utilities as well as a comprehensive reference.

Prerequisites

The utilities described in this reference section are installed as a part of the CHARON-SSP Agent for Linux software.  Depending on your environment you many not need or want support for the GUI environment.  If this is the case it is recommended that following installation of the CHARON-SSP Agent (described in the section, Installing the CHARON-SSP Agent) the Agent service is immediately disabled.

Disabling the CHARON-SSP Agent Service

Use the following commands to disable the CHARON-SSP Agent service and avoid automatic start up at system boot.

Configure the Shell Path

To add the command line utilities to a C Shell environment, add the following to the end of .login:

To add the command line utilities to a Bourne Shell environment (e.g. bash or sh), add the following to the end of .profile, .bash_profile or .bashrc:

Reference

The following utilities can be used from the command line to support and manipulate the CHARON-SSP host environment.