Linux Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Linux Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

how to find out shared file&dir of FTP ? is there any command for find out are any other way we have? tell me with example?

IBM, NTA, Wipro,

3 7875

How to Create NIS Server And NIS Client? Explain With Example?

Cisco,

1 6353

How is the difference between ftp and sftp ? and explain how to create ftp server and sftp server with example ?

Bank Of America, IBM,

2 14851

which type of application can be run on linux? and explain what it the use of that?

IBM, Sony, Wipro,

1 6212

i am prepairing for 2+ yrs exp in oracle/unix production support, which topics should i cover in unix/linux and sql plz help

HCL,

2 30037

1.Diff between Active and passive FTP? 2.What is anacron? 3.Diff between yum update and yum install while doing for kernel? 4.root_squash and no_root_squash does what? 5.What are the commands will you execute to find a new hardware? 6.How will you find out a lun allocated from SAN? 7.What is the main diff in CaT5 and CAT6 cable, except the 1/100 and 1/1000? 8.What is stale NFS and How will you fix it? 9.What is kernel panic error? 10.How will you recover password and shadow file, in case both got deleted. Explain the steps? 11.Explain boot process 12.What is network bonding. Explain the steps? 13.What are the exit codes returned by FSCK? 14.What is LDOM? 15.Diff between block and character device?

Wipro,

2 5578

1. Where the History file can be located? 2. How will you harden the server? 3. Diff between Raid 1 and Raid 5? 4. What is the largest disk size can be used in LVM? 5. How will you remove a PV from lvm without any data loss? 6. What is the diff between ext3 and ext2 File system? 7. How we can use resize2fs, what is the purpose? 8. What is the purpose of LVM? Why it is used? 9. If the FS is in read-only mode, so we cannot create any file. How will you fix it? 10. How to create swap partition after OS installation? 11. What is the diff between ssh and telnet? 12. How to find out the dependency required for a package?

IBM,

3 8794

what is lilo?How it is useful in linux?

HCL, SofTec,

3 12643

I have a user name in /etc/vsftpd/user_list which is for blocking the ftp user. Now i blocked the user as well ,but without removing username in user_list i wanna access the users home directory and his own directory .How will you access the data ????

Span Systems,

3 8598

I have my default runlevel is init5 now i have configured to init 3,now i wanna run my system in init3 process without reboot the system .How will you do for this scenario?

Span Systems,

6 10210

What is the difference between kill and kill -9 commands?

Sabre,

4 11605

what is portmapper,pam and xinetd

Wipro,

1 8782

How to convert an IP address to a Domain name using Unix ?

Verse Innovation,

2 6406

what is the last file executed during the boot process?

iOPEX,

5 11322

What is the difference between smtp and pop3?

Cordys,

3 6960

Un-Answered Questions { Linux }

What are some common things between linux & unix?

906

What are inode and process id?

916

What does ipc class mean?

1080

What is the role of semaphores in linux?

840

How use more command in linux?

1101

Is unix same as linux?

876

What are the significance of semaphores what are the different types of semaphores?

820

How do I find a file in linux terminal?

911

How to open microsoft word document, power point etc. On linux suse version and vise versa?

970

What are Private Mappings?

1562

What is cpu in linux?

1058

tell me something about linux commands.

1092

what are the qualities of soft links in linux?

858

What is linux boot partition?

950

Which command is used to uncompress gzip files?

1154

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