Preliminary Exercises

2.2. Preliminary Exercises

  1. System administrators often write scripts to automate common tasks. Give several instances where such scripts would be useful.

  2. Write a script that upon invocation shows the time and date, lists all logged-in users, and gives the system uptime. The script then saves this information to a logfile.


25 visits (2 today, 5 this week, 20 this month, 25 this year)
Uptime: 19:21:59 up 1 day, 12:17, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
216.73.216.102 GET from server z.lam1.us

Monday, October 13, 2025 @ 7:21:59 PM
z.ServerAdmin@lam1.us