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

Linux General Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

IBM, Sony, Wipro,

1 6215

what is portmapper,pam and xinetd

Wipro,

1 8782

What is the difference between smtp and pop3?

Cordys,

3 6961

I was updated patches after that i got kernel panic error, how to resolve the issue and we are unable to login the single user mode also

1 2780

I want to shutdown the application, when system is going down, where will mention

1 2833

What is initrd image, explanation

3 4970

How many users can login into linux server at same time??

1463

1)Can we extend /root partition in RHEL 6 ? If yes then what are the steps?

HCL,

1329

How do you kill a process?

Amazon,

1059

How can we find the current value for shell variables?

942

What is the shortcut to the login directory?

1049

mount -r is used to mount a file in read only mode. State Whether True or False?

914

How much usable space is available, when a Linux system is configured with a RAID 5 array that consists of six 20 GB hard disk drives?

904

What is the difference between linux file system and windows file system?

976

The advantage of using NFS rather than Samba for file sharing in Linux is

1010

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Un-Answered Questions { Linux General }

What is the difference between PATH and path?

1013

What does ps do?

920

What is the best linux operating system?

864

Which linux os is best for home use?

881

What are the 5 basic components of linux?

966

How do I create a bootable usb drive for linux?

950

Can bsd run linux programs?

903

What is meant by sticky bit?

886

Is kali linux good for beginners?

851

Name two methods you could use to rename a file?

899

How is bsd different from linux?

896

Search for: is windows 10 better than linux?

805

How do you check if a particular service in running?

846

Which scripting language is best for linux?

975

How do you access partitions under linux?

1185

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