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.


60 visits (2 today, 6 this week, 6 this month, 60 this year)
Uptime: 22:35:19 up 1:59, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
216.73.216.43 GET from server z.larrymurakami.com

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