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.


6 visits (3 today, 4 this week, 6 this month, 6 this year)
Uptime: 17:36:36 up 6 days, 1:15, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
216.73.216.136 GET from server z.lamurakami.com

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