IT250 Linux Home Work
Chapter 4
1) What command can be used to list the files in a directory? dir
2) What command can be used to display the contents of a text file? cat
3) What command can be used to delete a file? rm
Chapter 5
1) What commands can be used to compress a file? Gzip and bzip2
2) Name two text editing commands we used. nano and vim
3) What VIM command quits without saving. :q!
4) What VIM command saves and quits. ZZ
5) What VIM command is used to switch from text entry to command mode? Esc
Chapter 6
1) What command allows us to check or change permissions? Chmod
2) When working with permissions, what symbolic permissions value of RW? Read and write
3) What is the numeric equivalent of this value? 6
Chapter 7
1) When used with a command, what does the > character do? Redirect output
2) What does grep do? Search file(s) for lines that match a given pattern
Chapter 8
1) Define GNOME GNOME is designed to be a Windows-like Desktop system
Chapter 9
1) Define BASH. Bourne Again Shell GNU’s command interpreter for UNIX
Chapter 10
1) What command can I use to identify the name of the computer I’m using? hostname
2) Define daemon. A program that runs in the background, rather than controlled by the user
3) Identify a daemon. ftp
4) Define FQDN. Fully qualified domain name, is the complete domain name for a specific host
5) Identify one top level domain. Infrastructure top-level domain
Chapter 11
1) What is sudo? Super User Do, the one command to rule them all!
2) When might we need to use sudo? It gives the user elevated privileges of Admin
3) What command line tool did we use to start or stop services? Systemctl start, and Systemctl Stop
4) What is a graphical tool to work with services? Gnuplot
Chapter 13
1) What tool do I use to install applications? RPM
2) What launched its graphical component? Rpm ivh
Chapter 18
1) What client program allows us to “dial in” do a different machine and run programs? OpenSSH
2) What server program running on the server allowed this functionality? Ssh
Chapter 19
1) Identify the daemon name for the insecure file transfer program we configured on the server. Vstftp
Chapter 26
1) Identify the friendly name and daemon name of a web server we might use to host a website on Linux. Apache
2) What is the name of the configuration file we would use to configure this web server? Httpd.conf