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 6283

what is portmapper,pam and xinetd

Wipro,

1 8862

What is the difference between smtp and pop3?

Cordys,

3 7099

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 2848

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

1 2904

What is initrd image, explanation

3 5088

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

1496

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

HCL,

1375

How do you kill a process?

Amazon,

1106

How can we find the current value for shell variables?

998

What is the shortcut to the login directory?

1087

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

953

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?

972

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

1032

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

1064

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Un-Answered Questions { Linux General }

Which scripting language is best for linux?

1051

How long has linux been around?

900

What are scripts in linux?

1020

What does ps do?

985

How do you switch from one desktop environment to another, such as switching from kde to gnome?

872

Which password package is installed for the security of central password?

879

what are the qualities of soft links in linux?

901

What are the benefits of linux?

980

kernel executes the first process when system starts

908

Which type of os is linux?

914

How will you see the calendar for specific month say august 1947 in linux?

982

how do you list and flush all ip tables in linux?

885

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

1064

How to copy text to the clipboard?

882

Explain how you can find a file using terminal?

881

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