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 6089

what is portmapper,pam and xinetd

Wipro,

1 8689

What is the difference between smtp and pop3?

Cordys,

3 6788

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 2709

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

1 2737

What is initrd image, explanation

3 4831

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

1405

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

HCL,

1271

How do you kill a process?

Amazon,

1009

How can we find the current value for shell variables?

896

What is the shortcut to the login directory?

993

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

857

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?

863

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

918

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

925

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Un-Answered Questions { Linux General }

Does the alt+ctrl+del key combination work in linux?

765

What are semaphores in linux?

866

How can we avoid deadlock in java?

866

You have a large spreadsheet located in the /data directory that five different people need to be able to change. How can you enable each user to edit the spreadsheet from their individual home directories?

828

What daemon is responsible for tracking events on your system?

953

What is the maximum length for a file name in Linux?

801

What are the different modes when using vi editor?

859

How to copy files to a floppy disk safely?

826

Is it difficult to learn linux?

781

Is linux mint free?

792

How to enable acls for /home partition?

886

What are the benefits of linux?

872

What is the basic difference between unix and linux operating system?

879

Which supports for creating a Linux VPN (Virtual Private Network)?

920

What are the kinds of permissions under linux?

897

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