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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Basic UNIX Questions

All questions are for command line use in UNIX environments. 

Q: How do you display your running kernel version? (Solaris, AIX, Linux)
A: Linux # uname –r , Solaris # showrev

Q: Which command do you use to display a table of running processes? (Solaris, AIX, Linux)
A: Linux # ps –ef and top , Solaris # prstat 

Q: Which file do you modify to configure a domain name resolver? (Solaris, AIX, Linux)
A: Linux # /etc/resolv.conf , Solaris # /etc/resolv.conf

Q: Which file contains a list of locally defined hostnames and corresponding IP addresses? (Solaris, AIX, Linux)
A: Linux # /etc/hosts , Solaris # /etc/hosts and linked file /etc/inet/hosts 

Q: How do you display a routing table? (Solaris, AIX, Linux)
A: Linux # ip route show or #netstat –nr or #route –n and Solaris # netstat –nr and #route -n

Q: Which command would you use to view partitions and their sizes on Solaris?
A: # df -kh

Q: Which OpenBoot command would you use to print/view OpenBoot environment variables on a SUN server?
A: #printenv

Q: What does "ypwhich" command do? (Solaris, AIX, Linux)
A: # Will display NIS server to which client is connected to and which NIS Server is master for particular map specified with this command

Q: which command would you use to create an OS user on Solaris and Linux?
A: Linux # useradd and Solaris #useradd

Q: Which file contains passwords for local users on Solaris, Linux and on AIX?
A: Linux #/etc/shadow and Solaris # /etc/shadow

Q: Which command would you use to list partitions on Linux?
A: Linux # mount –l or # df -kh

Q: Which command/commands would you use to manage installed packages on RedHat Linux?
A: Linux # rpm 

Q: What is the default port for SSH server? 
A: 22

Q: Which command/commands would you use to manage installed packages on Solaris?
A: #pkginfo #pkgrm # pkgadd #pkgchk

Q: What command would you use to install an OS patch on Solaris?
A: #showrev –p and #patchadd -p

Q: Which Veritas command would you use to display a list of Veritas volumes?
A: # vxprint

Q: Which Veritas command would you use to display a list of disks on a system?
A: # vxdx list

Q: What is the main system configuration utility in AIX?
A: 

Q: Which file has a list of filesystems to be mounted at boot time on Solaris, Linux and AIX?
A: Linux # /etc/fstab and Solaris #/etc/vfstab
 

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