In this hands-on project, you view system information.
1. Switch to a command-line terminal (tty2) by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 and log in to the terminal using the user name of root and the password of secret.
2. Type less install.log at the command prompt, press Enter, and view the entries in this file. Were there any errors during package installation? Type q to quit the less utility.
3. Type the less install.log.syslog command at the command prompt, press Enter, and view the entries in this file. What information is displayed in this file? Type q to quit the less utility.
4. At the command prompt, type ls –F /proc and press Enter to view the file and directory contents of the proc filesystem.
5. At the command prompt, type less /proc/cpuinfo and press Enter. Did the installation detect your CPU correctly? Type q to quit the less utility.
6. At the command prompt, type less /proc/modules and press Enter. What is displayed? What does each entry represent? Type q to quit the less utility.
7. At the command prompt, type less /proc/meminfo and press Enter. Does your Linux system recognize all the memory in your computer? If not, what could you do? Type q to quit the less utility.
8. At the command prompt, type dmesg | less and press Enter. Observe the entries. How do they correspond with the hardware information that you saw in Step 6? Type q to quit the less utility.
9. At the command prompt, type less /var/log/messages and press Enter. What does each entry represent? How do these entries correspond with the information seen in Step 8? Type q to quit the less utility.
10. Type exit and press Enter to log out of your shell.
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