Lab 10 ITN 103

Step 1  Linux File System

 Which file systems are known by your system? A popular one is ext3

Step 2  Users Login's

Change to /etc folder and find out how long does the system keeps the log file in which user logins are monitored? 

Step 3 Finding the Version of Linux

Which release of Linux are you running? Are there any issues or messages of the day?

Step 4 User & Groups

How many users are defined on your system? How many groups? Where is the time zone information kept?

Step 5 Working with Linux Directories

Enter the command cd "folder " (you choose the folder)   What happens?

Enter the command cd ..        Mind the space between "cd" and ".."! What happens?

Use the pwd command.    What happens?
List the directory contents with the ls command.  What do you see?
Enter the cd command.    What happens?
Repeat cd ..  two times.    What happens?
Display the content of this directory.    What happens?

Try the command cd root  If prevented try the sudo command. To which directories do you have access?
Repeat cd command.              Do you know another possibility to get around folders?

Step 6  Making Directories

Change to your home directory.

Create a new directory and copy all the files of the /etc directory into it. Make sure that you also copy the files and directories which are in the subdirectories of /etc (recursive copy).

Change into the new directory and make a directory for files starting with an upper case character and one for files starting with a lower case character. Use as few commands as possible. Remove the remaining files.

Delete the directory and its entire content using a single command.

What were some of your commands?

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