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.


9 visits (1 today, 9 this week, 9 this month, 9 this year)
Uptime: 14:47:16 up 18:14, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
216.73.216.157 GET from server z.lam1.us

Saturday, June 7, 2025 @ 2:47:16 PM
z.ServerAdmin@lam1.us