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.


57 visits (3 today, 3 this week, 3 this month, 57 this year)
Uptime: 20:41:16 up 4 days, 43 min, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00
216.73.216.214 GET from server z.lamurakami.com

Wednesday, June 3, 2026 @ 8:41:16 PM
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