Solaris Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

3 7242

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

2 5448

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

HCL,

8 36900

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

Genpact, WNS,

11 25074

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

3 7033

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

Wipro,

3 7791

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 8173

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

4 9491

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 11754

What is uadmin and what does it do?

3 10756

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

2 6385

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

4 6740

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

HP,

4 9241

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

Locuz,

3 7822

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

9 11627


Un-Answered Questions { Solaris }

What is semmsl (max-sem-nsems in solaris 10+)?

572


Performace degradations in NFSv4 when upgraded from NFSv3? problems with NFS v4?

1797


How can a user login to solaris? What is the login shell?

596


Which command is used to backup and restore solaris file system?

582


How can the output be redirected to some other action process in place showing it in the screen?

600






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

586


What causes the rpc.ttdbserverd process to be cpu bound? How can it be rectified?

568


What can be a reason for the solaris system slowing down? How can it be rectified?

612


In solaris 10 root Disk is 98% full what steps to be taken?

1707


how to add your own run control script in server?

590


Benefits of SMF compared LRC(legacy run control)?

2604


How many run levels are there and what are they?

547


How can threads be created in a solaris environment? Write an example

610


How to check from the ok boot prompt?

652


Tell me how to set the path for core file?

574