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Assignment #02 - the Course Linux Server
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- Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - www.idallen.com

Read *all* the words in this assignment before you begin to type.

Available online: Tuesday September 11, 2012

Goal:
    Log in to the Course Linux Server using the correct password and options.
    Execute some simple Linux commands.
    Copy-and-paste some Linux output into a plain text file and submit.

Upload due date:
    Upload answer file before 12:00 on Tuesday September 18, 2012
    Late assignments or wrong file names may not be marked.  Be accurate.

Submission method:
    Create a plain text file using the *exact* name:  assignment02.txt
    Upload the file via the assignment02 "Upload Assignment" facility
    in Blackboard in a manner similar to how you submitted the previous
    assignment (but upload under assignment02).  Be exact!

    WARNING: Some inattentive students upload Assignment #2 into the
    Assignment #1 upload area.  Don't make that mistake!  Be exact.

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1.  Log in to the Course Linux Server using your special Linux password,
    available from your instructor.  To learn how to log in, see the
    Course Notes file: 070_course_linux_server.html

    If you log in using PuTTY from Windows, you must set the "PuTTY
    Configuration options for Windows users" before you connect.  See the
    notes file 070_course_linux_server.html for these options.

    You will know you have succeeded in the log in if you can type the
    command "hostname" at the BASH shell prompt and you see this:

    -bash-4.2$ hostname
    idallen-ubuntu

2.  Execute these four Linux commands at the BASH Shell prompt:

    hostname
    date
    whoami
    ls -l -a -i

    You type only the commands, not the prompts.  The Shell will
    type the prompts, telling you that it is waiting for a command.
    Each command will produce some output in the terminal window.

    NOTE: Make sure you can tell the difference between the digit -1 and
    the letter -l and that you use the letter -l and not the digit -1 as
    an argument to the "ls" command.  (Most Unix/Linux command options
    are letters, not digits.)

3.  With your mouse, copy the commands and their output and paste them
    into a Plain Text file for submission.  Your submission will look
    similar to this, but the numbers and names will be different:

    -bash-4.2$ hostname
    idallen-ubuntu
    -bash-4.2$ date
    Tue Sep 11 03:40:42 EDT 2012
    -bash-4.2$ whoami
    abcd0001
    -bash-4.2$ ls -l -a -i
    total 20
    169482 drwxr-x---   3 abcd0001 abcd0001 4096 Sep 11 03:33 .
    131074 drwxr-xr-x 147 root     root     4096 Sep 11 03:07 ..
    153636 -rw-------   1 abcd0001 abcd0001   60 Sep 11 03:33 .Xauthority
    153635 -rw-------   1 abcd0001 abcd0001  301 Sep 11 03:22 .bash_history
    393514 drwx------   2 abcd0001 abcd0001 4096 Sep 11 03:19 .cache
    -bash-4.2$ 

4.  Feel free to play with other Linux commands on the Linux server.
    You can't break anything.

    Try the "sleep 999" command line and use ^C to interrupt it.
    Try the ^W and ^U commands to erase words and lines.

    Try this command: man intro
    (Read the last line of the output to know how to quit this program.)

    Here is a short list of other simple commands to try:
       cal, who, uptime, clear, history, id, pwd, sleep 5, uname -a

5.  Log off of the Linux server by exiting the shell by typing:  exit

6.  Submit the Plain Text file with the exact name before the due date.

READ ALL THE WORDS.  OH PLEASE READ ALL THE WORDS!

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