Use the program cronttab to create cron jobs that: Append the output of the command uptime to a file in your home directory. This should run every 4 minutes.

Appends the disk space used in /var to a different file in your home directory. Include the date and time in some way. This should run 8 times a day, evenly spaced throughout the day. You can choose the times. Make sure you are recording just the disk space used by /var, and not the disk space used by the entire partition that /var is on. Also, don't use human readable mode, since you will not be able to see any changes in the values if you do this.

Runs a python program (which you have to write) that searches through the file created in step 1 and outputs any lines where the 5-minute load average first goes above 2.00 and then the next line where the 5-minute load average is back below 2.00. Save the results to a third file in your home directory. This program should run once a day between 3 and 5 am. (You should make sure that your system has a high 5-minute load average at least once so you can test your script. See the program stress for a nice tool that can stress test your system.) For example, if the the 5-minute load averages were 0.00 1.53 2.67 3.99 2.02 1.75 0.98 2.13 1.88 Then you would output the entire lines containing 2.67, 1.75, 2.13 and 1.88