=head1 NAME afs - Introduction to AFS commands =head1 DESCRIPTION AFS provides many commands that enable users and system administrators to use and customize its features. Many of the commands belong to the following categories, called I. =over 4 =item backup Interface for configuring and operating the AFS Backup System. =item bos Interface to the Basic Overseer (BOS) Server for administering server processes and configuration files. =item fs Interface for administering access control lists (ACLs), the Cache Manager, and other miscellaneous file system functions. =item fstrace Interface for tracing Cache Manager operations when debugging problems. =item kas Interface to the Authentication Server for administering security and authentication information. This aspect of OpenAFS has been deprecated. =item pts Interface to the Protection Server for administering AFS ID and group membership information. =item uss Interface for automated administration of user accounts. Deprecated, may be removed from a future version of OpenAFS. See B man page for more detail. =item vos Interface to the Volume Server and Volume Location (VL) Server for administering volumes. =back In addition, there are several commands that do not belong to suites. =head2 AFS Command Syntax AFS commands that belong to suites have the following structure: I I B<-switch> >[+] [B<-flag>] =head3 Command Names Together, the I and I make up the I. The I specifies the group of related commands to which the command belongs, and indicates which command interpreter and server process perform the command. AFS has several command suites, including B, B, B, B, B, B (deprecated) and B. Some of these suites have an interactive mode in which the issuer omits the I portion of the command name. The I tells the command interpreter and server process which action to perform. Most command suites include several operation codes. The man pages for each command name describe each operation code in detail, and the I describes how to use them in the context of performing administrative tasks. Several AFS commands do not belong to a suite and so their names do not have a I portion. Their structure is otherwise similar to the commands in the suites. =head3 Options The term I