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2.9Hands-On Exercise

  1. List all files in your home directory with full permission details. Identify which files you own and their permissions.
  2. Create a script test.sh with echo "Hello". Try to run it. Fix the permission error. Run it again.
  3. Find what process is using port 8080 on your machine. If nothing is, start a simple server and verify.
  4. Check your system's memory and disk usage. Is anything close to capacity?
  5. Run a process in the background, list it with jobs, bring it to the foreground, and then kill it.
  6. Use ss -tlnp to list all services listening on your machine. Identify each one.