Linux Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what is difference between inetd and xinetd

2 21766

what restrict telnet for root itself but allow for other user

CA,

3 9814

how u use the iptable firewall to restrict ssh,telnet,ftp

9 19300

what is the difference between fork and thread ? and parent and child process in fork system call?

Satyam,

3 25530

what is the difference between fork() & exec()

Subex, University Exams, Yahoo,

11 44838

Hi guys, I am working in MNC from 1 and half year as Software Engg but not in programming, its in Information Security. Now I am doing RHEL 5(Red Hat certification) to move into Linux Admin. Can anyone please give me the future scope of this field and please send me the interview questions or links to get the idea. Thanks, Sushant.

2 6627

why do u want to join this company

HCL, Infosys, United Healthcare, Wipro,

6 22438

Working in Linux/Unix platform, if any command dose not work, say # ls reports as command not found. what to do?

5 10165

What is trusted/untrusted operating system?

8 14523

what is mean by system calls

Infotech,

4 14771

some one is asking my machine is slow what is your steps?

Oracle, Talent,

5 9417

My machine is running half duplex mode how to change half duplex to full duplex?

Oracle,

4 8905

what is jumbi process?

Oracle,

6 13762

what is initrd image?

IBM, Oracle,

5 17295

what is the diff b/w ext2 and ext3?

5 10507


Un-Answered Questions { Linux }

What is netstat command in linux?

570


What is $@ in shell?

524


What does r mean linux?

591


Can you get viruses on linux?

456


What is meant by latch?

520






How to rename a file in linux?

446


What are different types of semaphores?

459


Write a command that will look for files with an extension "c", and has the occurrence of the string "apple" in it.

1155


What is a typical size for a swap partition under a linux system?

503


What companies use linux?

448


cd home to get back to your home-directory. State Whether True or False?

498


How do I check terminal history?

508


How do I change ctime in linux?

432


Is linux a kernel or os?

445


How to look up a Service by Port and Protocol?

1117