Server Administration and Maintenance

Write 500 words for each of the discussion tasks. You should provide credible references for every task according to the Faculty of Business guidelines.

Tasks

1. There is tension between the systems administrator (SA) who is more like the one introduced in

http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/

and one that always says Yes. Discuss three guidelines or principles that would help an SA deal with users. (5 marks)

2. Describe a method for notifying the systems administrator that a Linux file system is 90% full. Discuss how you would test your method. Implement your method and submit a screen capture showing it working. (5 marks)

3. Log files for web servers can grow out of control. Discuss why this could be a problem on a server. Describe a suitable file system layout and methods for handling large log files if you have busy web servers. (5 marks)