Assignment
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OPS235 Assignment #1 -- Winter 2010
Weight: 5% of the overall grade
Due Date: First week after study week.
(Check with your Professor for exact date)
Due at the start of class.
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Caution!
Before making any changes to your system configuration, backup the original configuration files into the
Before making any changes to your system configuration, backup the original configuration files into the
/backups directory.Basic Chores
Complete the following tasks on your system (4 points for each completed task).
- Setup your system so that the command
mount /assigndir-- executed by any user -- will attach the logical volumeassign-volfrom the volume group calledASSIGNGROUP(minimum 100 MB) to the mountpoint/assigndir(The volume should NOT be automatically mounted at boot time) Use/dev/sda5as the physical volume. - Setup your system login message to say Long Live The Open Source Community (to be displayed on all virtual consoles after the login prompt)
- Setup your system login banner to say Free as in --Free of Charge-- is good too. (User should see this before login to the system)
- Setup your system so that every user has a command alias called
rmtempdirwhich will delete the contents of a directory called~/tempNOT the/tmpdirectory.