q01-kernel-and-system-info

Énoncé§

Solve this question on: terminal

Write the Linux Kernel release into /opt/course/1/kernel.

Write the current value of Kernel parameter ip_forward into /opt/course/1/ip_forward.

Write the system timezone into /opt/course/1/timezone.

If no server is mentioned in the question text, you’ll need to create your solution on the default terminal

Solution§

# display kernel version
uname -r
# output value of kernel parameter
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
# get current timezone
date +%Z
cat /etc/timezone # also possible

The files should look like:

# /opt/course/1/kernel
5.15.0-69-generic
# /opt/course/1/ip_forward
1
# /opt/course/1/timezone
UTC