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

Linux AllOther Interview Questions

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What is the difference between an argument and an option/switch?

Wipro,

3 29127

What is the difference between home directory and working directory?

Accenture, Flexi,

10 27730

Which directory is closer to the top of the file system tree, parent directory or current directory?

3 8039

How can you see all mounted drives?

10 59045

tell me some of the Linux HotKeys do you know?

3 9166

What are RPM?s, what do they offer?

2 10021

How does the boot process[init levels] work on Linux? How is it different from Solaris?

3 15159

Who owns the data dictionary?

2 11538

Where is standard output usually directed?

2 8989

You want to create a compressed backup of the users' home directories. What utility should you use?

5 12267

What utility can you use to automate rotation of logs?

2 8901

What command can you use to review boot messages?

6 21077

What is the minimum number of partitions you need to install Linux?

30 56664

What is the name and path of the main system log?

3 16327

What text filter can you use to display a binary file in octal numbers?

1 6509

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How to Trouble shoot performance issue in RHEL administration ? please give to one example

2116

why /etc/shadow file do not have any permission ?

1608

How to catagories tickets in RHEL, which tickets are belong to PROBLEM, INCIDENT and CHANGE management? please given to me with examples

1842

As a system admin i want to know some things what are the troubleshooting issues we are facing frequently and what are the tickets will be raised.

1600

i installed clustering packages.When i try to run it getting LUCI error...what is it..??

2441

This question is belong to linux support. "one of my customer told to me, my application is getting slow response". how to resolve the issue. what are the steps you will follow to resolve the issue.

1941

what is the gate of ftp server in redhat linux?

1963

what is difference between TFTP abd FTP?

2209

I want to configure production interface and manage interface, how to configure both interfaces in Linux. please post the answers

2075

Why is it suggested to disable journalism in ext4 filesystem?

3620

1. User gaves df -h and the system get hanged. why ? 2. what is the hardlink and softlink mount ? 3. why is portmape should be started ? 4. what is nologin option 5. how to restrict users from accessing nfs ? 6. what is the difference between cpio and tar 7. what are the kernel parameters ? how to find out it ? 8. why we use sysctl.conf ? 9. if we gives init1 from multiuser runlevel, will it affect other users who already logged in to the system ? 10. what will be the available space to use after configuering raid5 with 5 disks each having 5gb spce ?

2830

What is Hard mount and soft Mount?

1841

What are the differences between FTP , NFS , SAMBA servers explain separately.

1296

What is the difference between ext3 and ext4?

2518

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