Solaris Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

3 7110

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

2 5370

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

HCL,

8 36628

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

Genpact, WNS,

11 24584

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

3 6900

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

Wipro,

3 7667

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 8008

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

4 9332

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 11635

What is uadmin and what does it do?

3 10639

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

2 6300

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

4 6603

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

HP,

4 9030

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

Locuz,

3 7723

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

9 11384


Un-Answered Questions { Solaris }

Explain semume?

465


How can a user login to another system on his network remotely?

539


How can a user boot in solaris as root if the password is non functional?

547


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

1738


Explain how to view shared memory statistics?

525






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

559


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?

2028


How do you remove a swap space?

537


How can a user increase the number of pseudo-ttys?

565


What is difference between swap -l & swap -s?

541


Solaris server is not running in multi level? Continuously restarting after installing the package?

574


Local zone in shutting down state.how to bring state of zone to installed?

1613


How to configure email notification in solaris 8? We are using netbackup 5

2871


What is semmni (max-sem-ids in solaris 10+)?

552


How can a user login to solaris?

561