Review Questions

1:What tool would you use to schedule a reboot on a server for today at 9:00 p.m.? What would you type to make this happen, assuming the command reboot will reboot the server?
2:What are two major security concerns with the Berkeley r-commands?
3:What makes rsync faster than traditional file transfer mechanisms like FTP?
4:What role does the authorized_keys file play in SSH public key authentication?
5:Assume you rotated the syslog log file messages to messages.1 just by renaming the file. Checking back later you notice that the messages file was never re-created but messages.1 has grown in size since you moved it. What most likely has happened?

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