Automating Tasks - Lab Exercises

Logging Information

Exercise 1: Logged data

• Review the configuration file for the machine and discover where syslog files are stored.
• Create a script that will zero out these files.
• Add this script to the list of cron entries for root to be executed daily.
• Remove this entry from root's crontab.

Exercise 2: Crontab entries

• Create a crontab entry for your user account that mails the current process status information, hourly.
• Modify the crontab entry to store the current process status information to a file called /var/tmp/ps.current, at 9:00AM, noon and 5:00PM.