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.


127 visits (2 today, 2 this week, 6 this month, 127 this year)
Uptime: 03:19:51 up 1 day, 13:45, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
216.73.216.23 GET from server z.lam1.us

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