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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Need Direction for extra work ? Post 302341730 by quine on Thursday 6th of August 2009 12:54:47 PM

08-06-2009

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Try process monitoring. Write a script (you choose language) that monitors your process space (ps -ef etc) and reports to you when "unusual events" occur... You define "unusual" for yourself for learning purposes... For example...

1. A process that appears in less than 1 of 4 sweeps
2. Processes that run more than a few minutes
3. Process whose actual time exceeds its cpu time by more than 100 to 1

things like that...

Become a sed expert... Set up a crontab (again an example) and write a sed script that advances the time of every job in the list by one hour...

Become an awk expert -- even better for a sysadmin

There are lots of basic tools you could teach yourself to use proficiently for admin purposes, and you could do useful things with them like learn to automate system backups, etc.

When you feel really confident, have someone come along who knows what he/she is doing (so there's no physical damage) and DESTROY your system -- screw up NFS, over-flow the process space, what ever, and then you have to (a) figure out what is wrong and (b) fix it...

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dh_installmenu

DH_INSTALLMENU(1)                                                    Debhelper                                                   DH_INSTALLMENU(1)

NAME

       dh_installmenu - install Debian menu files into package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installmenu [debhelperoptions] [-n]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_installmenu is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by the Debian menu package into package build
       directories.

       It also automatically generates the postinst and postrm commands needed to interface with the Debian menu package. These commands are
       inserted into the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb(1).

FILES

       debian/package.menu
           Debian menu files, installed into usr/share/menu/package in the package build directory. See menufile(5) for its format.

       debian/package.menu-method
           Debian menu method files, installed into etc/menu-methods/package in the package build directory.

OPTIONS

       -n, --no-scripts
           Do not modify postinst/postrm scripts.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7) update-menus(1) menufile(5)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

11.1.6ubuntu2                                                       2018-05-10                                                   DH_INSTALLMENU(1)