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For the OPS235 assignment for Chris Tylers' section (Section B), please see: OPS235 Assignment 1/Fall 2011
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OPS235 Assignment #1 -- Winter 2011
Weight: 5% of the overall grade
Due Date: Week after study week. (Check with your Professor for exact date). Due at the start of class.
Basic Chores
Complete the following tasks on your system (4 points for each completed task).
- Setup your system so that the command
mount /a1
-- executed by any user -- will attach the logical volumelv_a1
from the volume group calledops235
(minimum 100 MB) to the mountpoint/a1
(The volume should NOT be automatically mounted at boot time) - Setup your system login banner to say Free software: Free as in Freedom. (the user should see this on text-based virtual consoles before login to the system)
- Setup your system login message to say Open Source is Changing The Computing World (to be displayed on all text-based virtual consoles after a successful login prompt)
- Setup your system so that every user has a command alias called
deltemp
which will delete the contents of a directory called~/tmp
(NOT the main/tmp
directory!) - Setup the bash environment for the user root (and only root) so that the prompt includes the current date.
To sudo or not to sudo
Sudo is a tool which enables specific users to run specific commands as another user (such as "root").
Study the man page for the sudo
command and:
- Update sudo's configuration file (using the proper program) to allow only your Learn account to run
sudo
for the following commands asroot
: (8 points)mount
fdisk
passwd
lsusb
- Create a new user called
helper
and allow only this user to runsudo
for the following commands as your learn account: (4 points)vi
tail
Package Management
Research the rpm
and yum
commands to:
- Verify the integrity of a package using
rpm
to see if any of its files have been altered since installation. (you will be asked to demonstrate this when your assignment is marked)(4 points) - Add the rpmfusion.org repository to the yum configuration. (you will be asked to demonstrate installing a package from the rpmfusion repository when your assignment is marked) (4 points)
Alternate Software Installation
Review the yum group*
commands and use them to: (5 points)
- Find and install the XFCE dektop environment discussed in the following article: XFCE Review
- You will be asked to demonstrate how to switch to this desktop environment and back again without restarting the X server.
Review the procedures for compiling and installing software from source code and use them to: (8 points)
- Find and install the E3 text editor from source code. The project page for it can be found here: E3 Project
- You will be asked to demonstrate how to create a file using this editor.
SysAdmin Portion
Create a bash script called /bin/snapshot
to record the following information: (6 points)
- A list of all recent bad login attempts.
- A list of Logical Volumes, Physical Volumes, and Volume Groups.
- A report of all mounted filesystems, the amount of space used and the amount of space available.
- The information should be appended to the file
/var/log/snapshot.txt
Research the at
command and and schedule your script to execute at 2:00am on Christmas day (Dec 25). (2 points)
Exploring Your Options
Research, install, and test one software application for each of the following tasks: (4 points)
Assigned 2nd Distros for Fall 2010 | |
---|---|
Last Student# digit 0 or 1 |
Distro OpenSuse |
- Desktop Publishing
- Video Editing
- Accounting/Bookkeeping
- Real Time Strategy Game
Install a second Linux distribution as a Virtual Machine. (10 points)
You will be asked to demonstrate booting the 2nd distro in class. To determine which Linux distribution to install, find your student ID number and then use the last digit in your student number to find your matched distribution due for this assignment using the table to the right.
Submitting your assignment
(10 points)
Parts 3, 4 & 8 will be marked in class.
Parts 1, 2 and 5 will must be submitted on a filesystem image using these instructions:
- Make an 2MB (2048 1k blocks) ext2 formatted image file with a filesystem label that is your LearnID. Your LearnID is the first part of your Seneca e-mail address (which is the same as your Matrix account name).
- The image file must have the name
learnid.img
. For example, if your LearnID is "jsmith", your image file will be calledjsmith.img
- Copy the following files to the image file:
/etc/fstab
/etc/issue
/etc/motd
/etc/bashrc
.bashrc
/bin/snapshot
/etc/sudoers
/root/.bash_profile
/root/.bashrc
- Execute the following commands on your system:
atq >> assign1.data
lvs >> assign1.data
vgs >> assign1.data
pvs >> assign1.data
- Copy your
assign1.data
file to the filesystem image. - Create a file called
backups.txt
that contains a directory listing of your/backups
directory. - Copy the file called
backups.txt
to the filesystem image. - Submission of the file system image:
- Section A:
- Upload the file system image file to https://scs.senecac.on.ca/~raymond.chan/ops235/asgm1/
- Section B:
- Upload the file system image file to http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~ctyler/ops235/a1
- Section C:
- Upload the file system image file to http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~brian.gray/cgi-bin/assign1.cgi
- Sections D, E:
- Please check with your professor.
- Section A: