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

Linux General Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

which type of application can be run on linux? and explain what it the use of that?

IBM, Sony, Wipro,

1 6199

what is portmapper,pam and xinetd

Wipro,

1 8775

What is the difference between smtp and pop3?

Cordys,

3 6942

I was updated patches after that i got kernel panic error, how to resolve the issue and we are unable to login the single user mode also

1 2774

I want to shutdown the application, when system is going down, where will mention

1 2815

What is initrd image, explanation

3 4954

How many users can login into linux server at same time??

1451

1)Can we extend /root partition in RHEL 6 ? If yes then what are the steps?

HCL,

1325

How do you kill a process?

Amazon,

1051

How can we find the current value for shell variables?

932

What is the shortcut to the login directory?

1047

mount -r is used to mount a file in read only mode. State Whether True or False?

909

How much usable space is available, when a Linux system is configured with a RAID 5 array that consists of six 20 GB hard disk drives?

897

What is the difference between linux file system and windows file system?

968

The advantage of using NFS rather than Samba for file sharing in Linux is

995

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Un-Answered Questions { Linux General }

Users come to you and they will be saying mail server is very slow, what are the necessary steps you will take to resolve this issue in Linux?

945

Is bsd faster than linux?

912

Where is wget installed on linux?

885

How to enable curl on ubuntu lamp stack?

941

What are system calls in linux?

1034

Which is fastest linux distro?

888

How do you check the status of all the services?

857

What are the types of shell in linux?

930

What linus torvalds created?

858

What is the use of a symbolic link in linux?

871

What is the basic difference between unix and linux operating system?

943

What is the TCP hand shake in Linux?

1011

What is UIL(user interface language)

932

What is bash?

856

You want to send a message to all connected users as “server is going down for maintenance”, what will you do?

1071

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