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yea, actually it was a quiz question.
I am just wondering the answer

Hi
I have an exam question which is below and I am looking for answer of this question:
I would appreciate your help.

* You are the systems administrator of a mail server that services...

What are the ways in which a LILO boot loader can be installed on a
Linux system.

thanks
What is the diffrence between daemon and crontab?

As far as I know
Crontab is the utulity to schedule tasks to run at specific times.Is there any utility to perform the same task

yes glen

Hi

What is the best way to reboot a Linux computer?
i) Press the power switch
ii) type 'init 6' as any user, then enter the root password when prompted
iii) Pour metal filings in the top of the...

thanks glen.
One user on this system is using a lot more disk space than any other user. How shall I deal
with this.

Hi
If the disk space is running low in the home directories,
and I cannot add more disk space at the moment.

How can I determine who is using the most disk space?

ok....

How can I change this to oppsosite.
I mean, if path doesnt exist, echo...
[[ -d $my_path ]] && echo "path exist"

thanks

Hi
How can I check if the path exist or not?

echo "Enter path:";
read my_path;

##I should check whether my_path exists or not....

???????

???????

cos,chage command is not workin...

hi
by modifying /etc/shadow
how can I Force a change of password so that user has at least 1 week to login?

I did it by using:

echo "enter username to force password change"
read user;...

That worked, thanks a lot

Hi
I want to change the default home directory of a user by modifying the /etc/passwd.

I have a user named John
cat /etc/passwd | grep John

john:x:503:506::/home/john/:/bin

Here is my...

That is really helpful

Thanks a lot

I have a shell script.
How can use some kind of locking mechanism to ensure that the script is not being executed by two people
at the same time?

yea
I tried with those variables:
username=temp
new_path=/home/temp

but not correctly working

useradd temp

cat /etc/ passwd
temp:x:502:505::/home/temp:/bin/bash

After I run the script with the following variables:
username: temp
new_path: /home/temp

cat /etc/passwd...

echo "Enter username to change home directory:";
read username;
echo "Enter new home directory path:";
read new_path;

awk -v user="$username" -v path="$new_path"...

it again doent work