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.


18 visits (1 today, 1 this week, 18 this month, 18 this year)
Uptime: 03:37:24 up 5 days, 8:20, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
216.73.216.247 GET from server z.lamurakami.com

Sunday, June 15, 2025 @ 3:37:24 AM
z.ServerAdmin@lam1.us