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 6217

what is portmapper,pam and xinetd

Wipro,

1 8790

What is the difference between smtp and pop3?

Cordys,

3 6974

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 2786

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

1 2838

What is initrd image, explanation

3 4987

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

1467

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

HCL,

1337

How do you kill a process?

Amazon,

1069

How can we find the current value for shell variables?

947

What is the shortcut to the login directory?

1052

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

919

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?

909

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

982

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

1012

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Un-Answered Questions { Linux General }

How do I stop a linux script from command line?

958

Torvalds, wrote most of the linux kernel in c++ programming language, do you agree?

931

What is inode number?

954

You need to search for the string “tecmint” in all the “.txt” files in the current directory. How will you do it?

1044

What is an a record, an ns record, a ptr record, a cname record, an mx record?

901

What feature stateless linux server offers?

1062

How do I install linux on a hard drive?

814

You want to search for sale and sales. What regular expression should you use?

837

What is the point of linux?

874

What type of file server do we have on a linux server?

955

Can a linux docker container run on windows?

919

Can I install linux on android phone?

853

What is nfs? What is its job?

902

What is nfs?

1015

Where are sar logs stored?

860

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