Lab Guidance and Solutions

Problem 1: Create directories to use for the reports, which will be the basis of your PDI.

Use the mkdir command to make two new directories in the course files folder, one titled sf_out and the second br_out.

Problem 2: Running Siegfried. Siegfried is a useful tool to create an inventory and a bulk process for file characterization information. Run the command on the PKG-web-files-small directory and output the reports to the sf_out directory.

This week’s lab questions are prompts that aim to guide you in the file inspection process and to reflect on the information that you can glean in this process. The problems below are designed to run on the course files, which you have previously downloaded, and that the directory is named si667-2026-main.

Note: this guide page on the course activities site demonstrates using Siegfried and Brunnhilde for file reporting and characterization.