Unix Questions & Answers - Part 5

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Unix Questions & Answers - Part 5

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21) How do you stop users from using their own crontab

Make sure userid is not in cron.allow or is present in cron.deny

22) Show a crontab entry that will run '/usr/local/bin/myscript' on the first Monday of each month?

0 4 1-7 * 1 /usr/local/bin/myscript

23) Can you explain what a context switch is?

A context switch is the switching of the CPU from one process or thread to another

24) Given a network of 192.168.7.0 and a netmask of 255.255.255.192, answer the following:

a) How many IP addresses are available for hosts?
62

b) What is the broadcast address?
192.168.7.63

c) How would this be written in CIDR notation? 192.168.7.0/26

d) I decide to split this subnet by odd and even numbered IP addresses, how would I achieve this?
Change the netmask to 255.255.255.193
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