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 6083

what is portmapper,pam and xinetd

Wipro,

1 8687

What is the difference between smtp and pop3?

Cordys,

3 6785

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 2706

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

1 2734

What is initrd image, explanation

3 4822

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

1401

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

HCL,

1270

How do you kill a process?

Amazon,

1007

How can we find the current value for shell variables?

892

What is the shortcut to the login directory?

993

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

855

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?

861

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

916

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

922

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Un-Answered Questions { Linux General }

you have forgotten the root password how would you retrieve it in linux operating system?

793

How to copy text to clipboard?

897

Can I download linux for free?

725

In linux, what names are assigned to the different serial ports?

870

how do you search for a pattern and than replace it in an entire file in linux?

782

What is difference between at and cron?

911

Mention the nfs server working process?

855

Is linux hard to learn?

802

What is shell script?

821

Which files are called for user profile by default when a user gets login?

955

What is the purpose of online help?

808

How do you create a new user without logging on as a root user?

759

How do you find who is logged in?

875

Who owns the data dictionary in linux?

787

How to terminate a running process in linux?

892

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