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Exercise 

1.  If you don't have a printer queue created, create one now (serial or parallel).
2.  Disable the printer queue, so jobs can still be submitted to the queue, but won't be printed.
3.  Print the /etc/passwd file to this printer queue.
4.  What is the name of the requests file for this job?

5.  What is the name of the temp file for this job?

6.  What are the permissions and ownership of the requests file, and the requests directory?

    Requests file:
    Requests directory:

7.  What are the permissions and ownership of the temp file, and the temp directory?

    Requests file:
    Requests directory:

8.  Assuming that you did not print this job yourself, how could you tell what file the user was trying to print?

9.  How can you tell which user submitted this print job?

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