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Basic linux commands interview questions

Aug 18, 2011

1)Give me 15 commands which you use frequently

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Depends on the environment you work. Some examples are mkdir For creating folders( use -p option to create multiple folders at a time) ls List folders/files( check what ls -1 do) top To monitor system activities lsof To check whats happening on the server and which process open which file. netstat -tcp Gives you complete picture about network connection details. vnstat Gives you Network band width statics sh For running shell scripts history For monitoring the commands executed by users cd For changing directories vi - -For editing configuration files. chmod To change permissions of folders and files.
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mount For mounting formated partitions. service For start/restart/stop a service. chkconfig For permanent on/off a service. fdisk -l To list all the partitions This is my own list, you can have your list. 2)Give me some commands for user management. last, chage, chsh, lsof, chown, chmod, useradd, userdel, newusers. 3)Give me syntax checking commands for following services DNS, SAMBA, Apache etc 4)What is the command to do password less logins to other machines. expect and ssh-keygen 5)Give me some security monitoring related commands.

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lsof, netstat, top, ps -ef, tail, last, tcpdump, sestatus, history, w. 6)What is the difference between man, info, whatis commands and a help option for a command? whatis gives you one line answer. help option for a command gives you one line answers for each option supported by a command man command gives you medium size info. info command gives full details about a commands, lots and lots of information about a command. Please share your interview questions with us, we post them here so that others can get help from this.
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SOMNATH
MAY 07, 2012 @ 16:57

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pls provide help to configure mail notification alert in nagios. I configured nagios 3.1.0 on rhel 5.1 with web interface.

SURENDRA
JUL 27, 2012 @ 07:22

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This folder contains the files with no links and files to be required. This folder is present in a folder which is mounted on a partition. In other words we can for each partition we have this folder so that any file to be recovered is kept in this folder. fsck command is used to recover these files.

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FEB 17, 2013 @ 04:31

ur blog is really good for the people who are beginner great job

JASWANT
MAR 25, 2013 @ 06:48

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Your all post is very help fule. i am posting my some interview question. 1. what is zombi process. 2. what is runlevel

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