1. Create a new group 'dev'
2. Create a new user 'alice'. Make sure she is a member of the 'dev' group. Also, set her description to "Alice from Dev", and her default shell to '/bin/csh'
3. Check the log files and look for the log entries generated by adding alice to the system
4. Create a new group 'mktg'
5. Create a new user 'bob' as a member of group 'mktg' and secondary member of the 'dev' group. Lock his account after you create it.
6. Modify user 'bob' and make his primary group 'dev' and his secondary group 'mktg'.
7. Unlock user 'bob'
8. Set the minimum password lifetime on 'bob' and 'alice' to 21 days, and the maximum lifetime to 45 days
9. From the '/' directory, create a tar file backup of the home directory
10. Create a new directory, '/backups'
11. Set the permissions on the '/backups' directory to read/write/execute for owner, and no perms for everyone else
12. Using the highest compression level, compress your backup with gzip and move it to the '/backups' directory
13. Startup a 'netstat 1' command in the background. Make sure to redirect it's output to a file, so it isn't cluttering up your screen!
14. Stop your job
15. View the results of the job so far, in it's output file. You should see lots of information about all the network connections currently existing on your computer.
16. Check the size of the file. Wait 5 seconds, check it again. Make sure it isn't growing.
17. Start the job running again.
18. Check the size of the file. Wait 5 seconds, check it again. Make sure it *is* growing.
19. Go ahead and kill the job.
20. Going back to your home directory backup. cd into the '/tmp' folder. Extract your home backup. Check that the extract worked by comparing the '/tmp/home' folder with the '/home' folder.
21. Figure out a way to count the total number of RPM packages installed on your machine.
22. Generate an alphabetized list of the installed RPM packages on your machine.
23. To what package does the '/usr/bin/time' command belong?