Linux Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Linux Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

difference between Tcp and udp

5 16638

Who owns the data dictionary?

2 11444

Where is standard output usually directed?

2 8905

You want to create a compressed backup of the users' home directories. What utility should you use?

5 12101

What utility can you use to automate rotation of logs?

2 8805

What command can you use to review boot messages?

6 20888

What is the minimum number of partitions you need to install Linux?

30 55692

What is the name and path of the main system log?

3 16186

What text filter can you use to display a binary file in octal numbers?

1 6427

What is the complete name of the default configuration file for LILO?

1 6986

What file should you examine to determine the defined runlevels for your system?

7 15159

What is LILO?

Cisco,

11 20720

What is the most graceful way to get to run level single user mode?

Cisco,

9 16741

What does the following command line produce? Explain each aspect of this line. $ (date ; ps -ef | awk {print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -l ) >> Activity.log

Cisco,

4 10611

What are the Advantages and disadvantages of script vs compiled program?

2 18939

Un-Answered Questions { Linux }

What is pthread_mutex?

769

What is samba?

880

Where can I download linux os for free?

787

How do you get its usage (a filesystem)?

886

Are pthreads kernel threads?

829

Explain about document formatting?

1082

Explain about the command elm?

1030

How do mutexes work?

872

what do know about commands?

1139

Compare linux & windows?

894

Why we use pwd command in linux?

1084

Is desktop linux dead?

876

How can I type in cmd?

930

What are the differences between user level threads and kernel threads?

811

How to Generate Addresses?

1324

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