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

Solaris Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Suppose if u want to reconfigure the kernel then how ur going to do?

3 8496

You can ping servers on the subnet your workstation is on, but not other subnets. Why?

2 6452

If you can ping a server, but can't telnet or ssh to it, whats wrong?

HCL,

8 39651

If you mistype a password, how do you clear it out to retype the password again?

Genpact, WNS,

11 28886

If fsck is running, one thind u should not do.. what's that?

3 8150

If you try to send an e-mail to someone and the following message appear "Message Undeliverable", what could be wrong?

Wipro,

3 9104

How do you give a user access to an application or program that needs to run as root without giving them the root password?

3 9823

When you "ping server" and "ping server.domainname", you get different results. Why?

4 10962

How would you truncate a log file that is growing too large if you don't have space to compress it or to move it somewhere else? How would you do it?

3 13111

What is uadmin and what does it do?

3 12097

If you have multiple ethernet interfaces, how do you keep it from routing between them?

2 7494

You can receive e-mail, but when u try to send e-mail .. u can't send any. What is wrong?

4 8141

If you have forgotten the root password for a server, how do you get back in?

HP,

4 10832

Security point of view,What's there in NIS+ than NIS?

Locuz,

3 8956

How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command?

9 14143

Un-Answered Questions { Solaris }

Explain the difference between pid and ppid with example.

1105

when i am starting solaris10 with 'fail safe mode' on intel machine it is asking "#starting shell".what is it and how to solve this problem?

2509

How to solve the system hang issue.

1042

What is the zone in DNS?

2361

How can a user increase the number of pseudo-ttys? what is their use?

990

What is semopm (max-sem-ops in solaris 10+)?

771

how to add Kernel patch in all systems at a time?

3064

Tell me how to discover global zone name from local zone?

1034

Explain custom jumpstart procedure?

2957

What do you understand by mail aliases?

984

How can abiword be compiled for solaris using gcc?

1002

What kind of issues you get?

2071

Where do you get Alarm prompt?

2756

Explain the run levels that are used in solaris10?

963

How do you break the root password?

997

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