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Basic Linux Interview Questions and Answers Part II

Continuing the Interview Series, we are giving 10 Questions here, in this article. These questions and the questions in the future articles doesnt necessarily means they were asked in any interview. We are presenting you an interactive learning platform through these kind of posts, which surely will be helpful.

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Q.1: Which command is used to record a user login session in a file?

  • macro
  • read
  • script
  • record
  • sessionrecord

Answer : The script command is used to record a users login session in a file. Script command can be implemented in a shell script or can directly be used in terminal. Here is an example which records everything between script and exit.

Lets record the users login session with script command as shown.

[root@tecmint ~]# script my-session-record.txt

Script started, file is my-session-record.txt

The content of log file my-session-record.txt can be views as:

[root@tecmint ~]# nano my-session-record.txt

script started on Friday 22 November 2013 08:19:01 PM IST
[root@tecmint ~]# ls
^[[0m^[[01;34mBinary^[[0m ^[[01;34mDocuments^[[0m ^[[01;34mMusic^[[0m $
^[[01;34mDesktop^[[0m ^[[01;34mDownloads^[[0m my-session-record.txt ^[[01;34$

Q.2: The kernel log message can be viewed using which of the following command?

  • dmesg
  • kernel
  • ls -i
  • uname
  • None of the above

Answer : The kernel log message can be viewed by executing 'dmesg' command. In the list kernel is not a valid Linux command, 'ls -i' lists the file with inode within the working directory and 'uname' command shows os.

[root@tecmint ~]# dmesg

Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Linux version 2.6.32-279.el6.i686 (mockbuild@c6b9.bsys.dev.centos.org) (gcc version 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 10:59:55 UTC 2012
KERNEL supported cpus:
  Intel GenuineIntel
  AMD AuthenticAMD
  NSC Geode by NSC
  Cyrix CyrixInstead
  Centaur CentaurHauls
  Transmeta GenuineTMx86
  Transmeta TransmetaCPU
  UMC UMC UMC UMC
Disabled fast string operations
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
...

Q.3: Which command is used to display the release of Linux Kernel?

  • uname -v
  • uname -r
  • uname -m
  • uname -n
  • uname -o

Answer : The command uname -r display the kernel release information. The switch -v , -m , -n , o display kernel version, machine hardware name, network node, hostname and operating system, respectively.

[root@tecmint ~]# uname -r

2.6.32-279.el6.i686

Q.4: Which command is used to identify the types of file?

  • type
  • info
  • file
  • which
  • ls

Answer : The file command is used to identify the types of file. The syntax is file [option] File_name.

[root@tecmint ~]# file wtop

wtop: POSIX shell script text executable

Q.5: Which command locate the binary, source and man page of a command?

Answer : The whereis command comes to rescue here. The whereis command locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command.

[root@tecmint ~]# whereis /usr/bin/ftp

ftp: /usr/bin/ftp /usr/share/man/man1/ftp.1.gz

Q.6: When a user login, which files are called for user profile, by default??

Answer : The .profile and .bashrc present under home directory are called for user profile by default.

[root@tecmint ~]# ls -al
-rw-r--r--.  1 tecmint     tecmint            176 May 11  2012 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--.  1 tecmint     tecmint            124 May 11  2012 .bashrc

###Q.7: The resolve.conf file is a configuration file for?

Answer : The /etc/resolve.conf is the configuration file for DNS at client side.

[root@tecmint ~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 172.16.16.94
  • ln
  • ln -s
  • link
  • link -soft
  • None of the above

Answer : The ln -s command is used to create soft link of a file in Linux Environment.

[root@tecmint ~]# ln -s /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf httpd.original.conf

Q.9: The command pwd is an alias of command passwd in Linux?

Answer : No! The command pwd is not an alias of command passwd by default. pwd stands for print working directory, which shows current directory and passwd is used to change the password of user account in Linux.

[root@tecmint ~]# pwd

/home/tecmint

[root@tecmint ~]# passwd
Changing password for user root.
New password:
Retype new password:

Q.10: How will you check pci devices vendor and version on a Linux?

Answer : The Linux command lspci comes to rescue here.

[root@tecmint ~]# lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000P Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev b1)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8 Port 2-3 (rev b1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8 Port 4-5 (rev b1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8 Port 6-7 (rev b1)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset DMA Engine (rev b1)
...

Thats all for now. I hope these above questions might be very helpful to you. In our next weekend we again come-up with some new set of questions. Till then stay healthy, tuned and connected to Tecmint.


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