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 8368

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

2 6348

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

HCL,

8 39324

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

Genpact, WNS,

11 28423

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

3 8034

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

Wipro,

3 8952

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 9693

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

4 10781

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 12932

What is uadmin and what does it do?

3 11924

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

2 7350

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

4 7975

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

HP,

4 10656

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

Locuz,

3 8822

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

9 13818

Un-Answered Questions { Solaris }

How do you copy files from remote system using ftp?

1020

How do you remove a swap space?

999

Explain the vmstat output?

1000

How can the user in solaris check the status of processes?

967

Explain how to view shared memory statistics?

873

How to solve the system hang issue. Found that the memory state is free, commands to check and solve the issue?

999

Explain semmap?

719

How to solve the system hang issue.

1004

What do you understand by mail aliases?

945

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

997

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

961

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

974

Hi We have upgraded our sun machine from solaris 9 to solaris 10. Before upgradation the date command output(Solaris 9) Wed Oct 13 09:45:21 IST 2010 But after upgradation the output for date is as below(solaris 10). Wednesday, October 13, 2010 9:46:14 AM IST Looks like I need to change LC_TIME=C. can you please help me how to change it for permanently

2164

Tell me how to solve the system hung issue. Found that the memory state is free, commands to check and solve the issue?

899

Tell me is there any good future for solaris?

725

For More Un-Answered { Solaris } Questions Click Here