Solaris Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Suppose if u want to reconfigure the kernel then how ur going to do?

3 7472

You can ping servers on the subnet your workstation is on, but not other subnets. Why?

2 5656

If you can ping a server, but can't telnet or ssh to it, whats wrong?

HCL,

8 37386

If you mistype a password, how do you clear it out to retype the password again?

Genpact, WNS,

11 25877

If fsck is running, one thind u should not do.. what's that?

3 7241

If you try to send an e-mail to someone and the following message appear "Message Undeliverable", what could be wrong?

Wipro,

3 8027

How do you give a user access to an application or program that needs to run as root without giving them the root password?

3 8545

When you "ping server" and "ping server.domainname", you get different results. Why?

4 9787

How would you truncate a log file that is growing too large if you don't have space to compress it or to move it somewhere else? How would you do it?

3 12016

What is uadmin and what does it do?

3 11002

If you have multiple ethernet interfaces, how do you keep it from routing between them?

2 6572

You can receive e-mail, but when u try to send e-mail .. u can't send any. What is wrong?

4 7023

If you have forgotten the root password for a server, how do you get back in?

HP,

4 9566

Security point of view,What's there in NIS+ than NIS?

Locuz,

3 8037

How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command?

9 12137


Un-Answered Questions { Solaris }

when i am starting solaris10 with 'fail safe mode' on intel machine it is asking "#starting shell".what is it and how to solve this problem?

2146


Explain semmnu?

553


How can a user login to solaris? What is the login shell?

671


Explain how to view shared memory statistics?

651


What do you understand by irq assignments?

713






what is the difference between solaris8 and solaris9 and solaris10

4977


Tell me how many types of file system?

787


List out a few performance monitoring tools.

664


When iam loging in to my system as a normal user through

671


Explain semume?

546


How can the output be redirected to some other action process in place showing it in the screen?

679


Explain the vmstat output?

678


Tell me how to give quotas on cpu?

422


How can a user boot in solaris as root if the password is non functional?

674


How can threads be created in a solaris environment?

679