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 4820

what is portmapper,pam and xinetd

Wipro,

1 7822

What is the difference between smtp and pop3?

Cordys,

3 5538

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 2188

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

1 2184

What is initrd image, explanation

3 3768

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

1014

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

HCL,

862

How do you kill a process?

Amazon,

554

How can we find the current value for shell variables?

489

What is the shortcut to the login directory?

518

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

532

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?

518

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

496

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

513


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What is wait () and notify () in multithreading?

447


What does ps do?

469


Which linux os is best for home use?

446


Which daemon is responsible for tracking events on linux system?

484


How can we define selinux?

509






You need to stop your x server. When you try to kill your x server, you got an error message that you cannot quit x server. What will you do?

435


What is the difference between semaphore and mutex?

433


Explain how you can create a folder using terminal?

448


How do you share a program across different virtual desktops under linux?

1164


How to copy text to the clipboard?

435


Differentiate between cron and anacron.

493


What are the 5 basic components of linux?

471


What is a swap space?

477


What's the best version of linux?

443


How permissions are granted under linux?

503