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=INVESTIGATION 1: NUMBERING CONVERSIONS=
<span style="color:red;">'''ATTENTION''': This tutorial will provide additional '''practice''' with the necessary skills The due date for successfully completing this weeks segment of your '''assignment''' and tutorial (i.e. tutorial 4) is not worth marksby Friday, March 10 @ 11:59 PM (Week 8).</span><br><br>
For this investigation, we will NOT be logged into our Matrix account, but it is recommended to have an '''MS Word document'''<br>open to manually perform numbering conversions.
# Issue the following Linux command to create an empty regular file called '''myfile.txt''' in the '''~/shared2''' directory:<br> <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">touch ~/shared2/myfile.txt</span><br><br>
# Use the <span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ls -l</span> command to view the permissions for this newly created regular file.<br><br>What do you notice about those permissions?<br><br>Let's run a checking script to make certain you correctly set permissions for those recently-created directories and files.<br><br>
# Issue the following: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">~osl640/week4-check-4</span><br><br>If you encounter errors, make corrections and then re-run the checking script until you receive a congratulations message<br>and then continue with this tutorial.<br><br>
# Logout of your Matrix account, and then log-back into your Matrix account.<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command (without arguments): <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">umask</span><br><br>What happened? Referring to your notes, what do you need to do to make that umask value persistent?<br><br><span style="color:red;">'''WARNING''':<br>You should be <u>extremely</u> aware of your permissions since you may perform '''assignments''' for <u>other</u> courses on your '''Matrix''' server.<br>You should NOT set permissions to share your work with '''same group''' or '''other group''' members (unless given '''specific permissions instructions from your course professors''' involving '''assignment submission'''). If students can have access to your directories and assignment files, they could '''copy''' your work and thus make yourself and other student(s) that copied your assignment work<br>to be charged with '''academic dishonesty'''.</span><br><br>
: After you complete Complete the Review Questions sections to get additional practice, then work on your '''online assignment 2'''<br>and complete the sections '''1''' and '''2''' labelled: '''Practice Using The vi Text Editor''' and '''Permissions''' respectively.<br><br>
= LINUX PRACTICE QUESTIONS =
The purpose of this section is to obtain extra practice to help with your assignment #1, quizzes, your midterm, and your final ezam.
Here is a link to the [https://matrix.senecacollege.ca/~osl640/questions/osl640_week4_practice.docx MS Word Document of ALL of the questions ] displayed below but with extra room to answer on the document tosimulate a quiz: https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~murray.saul/uli101/uli101_week4_practice.docx
Your instructor may take-up these questions during class. It is up to the student to attend classes in order to obtain the answers to the following questions. Your instructor will NOT provide these answers in any other form (eg. e-mail, etc).