1. Have a look into /etc/inittab and see whether you understand meaning of all items in there. How would you assure that user, who presses well-known combo Ctrl+Alt+Del, would get message about current time instead of reboot. And how would you add a seventh console to the six default ones? Uncomfortable finding: You can't try this on virtual machines :-( 2. To which runlevel do these virtual machines boot by default? What is the purpose of runlevels 0 and 6? Which scripts are started in them? Have a look on those scripts and see, what is being started/stopped. 3. Which scripts are being started in "default" runlevel? Have a look on them! Where are started scripts SnnName and KnnName mentioned in the lecture being started from? 4. Have a look at manpage for commands "shutdownm" and "telinit" and try switching from one runlevel to another one, or eventually scheduling computer shutdown. 5. Using scheduler 'at' set up shutdown of your computer at the end of exercises. Try also commands 'atq' and 'atrm'. What is the maximal time precision you can expect from commands scheduled using 'at'? 6. Try playing with the 'crontab' command. Assure, that every 10 minutes every user logged on your computer will get an information about current time. Of course, it should happen only during exercises. With what precision can you schedule command execution from 'cron'? Note: Commands 'write' and 'wall' might come handy.