This chapter discusses the syntax of these AFS commands, the rules that must be followed when issuing them, and ways of accessing help relevant to them. The command suite indicates the general type of command and the server process that performs the command. The pts command suite is used to issue protection-related commands. The miscellaneous commands are not associated with any command suite. The operation code indicates the action that the command will perform.
Miscellaneous commands have operation codes only.
They consist of a paired switch and instance . An instance represents some variable piece of information that will be used by the command. Arguments can be optional or required. Flags are always preceded by a hyphen and are always optional. This document uses the following typeface conventions.