Oh and would it be necessary to use loops and functions? I guess it is so difficult for me because I don't have the code envisioned in my head in order to write it out.

I have no problem doing the work myself if I understood it, but the whole scripting on Linux part is a bit overwhelming for me as I do not really fully understand a good portion of it. You say it is easy and it might be, but to a beginner who has only scripted in windows with extremely basic scripts it does not seem easy at all. I will try using jabirali's information, but I do not have the time to sit through and figure this out in a weeks time when I work and go to school full time. How do I "extract" the information from the /proc file system? I guess the word extract is what is confusing me. Oh and another thing I don't even have fedora so is this something i can just type in notepad?

I was wondering if someone could help me create a script to perform system management functions. I need to write a script in fedora 10 that will automate a complex system task. The task I have chose is one that will determine the processes that are consuming system resources, and investigative these resources to see whether or not they are necessary or can be stopped. I would also have the script report how much memory is available and how much memory is consumed and log the results with an output file in a stored location. Ideally the script would have comments after every line as to why this line was used, or what it does in the script file itself. Thanks I would be willing to pay via paypal if someone could help on the script part. I need to write a paper on it, but I don't fully understand how to script in fedora and know I cannot do this on my own. If you are interested please reply or email or just get in contact with me somehow. Thank you.