Most answered questions under tag linux

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How does Virtual Machine Works?

posted Nov 2, 2015 by anonymous

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What is difference between HardLink and SoftLink in UNIX?

posted Nov 2, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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While running the file, Why am I able to delete a small file but not large file?

posted Oct 29, 2015 by anonymous

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Your application home directory is full? How will you find which directory is taking how much space?

posted Oct 14, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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You have an IP address in your network how will you find hostname and vice versa?

posted Oct 14, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is swappiness in Linux Memory Management and how do we configure that ?

posted Oct 13, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is inode ? Briefly explain the structure ?

posted Oct 13, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is rDNS and explain its benefits in the Linux Domain Name Systems ?

posted Oct 8, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is drop cache in Linux and how do you clear it ?

posted Oct 7, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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How to run a shell script automatically?

posted Sep 29, 2015 by Chirag Gangdev

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In the ps results few of the processes are having process state as "D" . What does it mean ?

posted Sep 29, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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Explain briefly the procedure for re-installing Grub in Linux ?

posted Sep 29, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is a names Pipe and how is it different from regular pipes?

posted Sep 22, 2015 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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How are Pipes in Linux, how to create them and what is the difference between half duplex and full duplex pipes?

posted Sep 22, 2015 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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Strange SELinux issue preventing going to sleep

posted Sep 18, 2015 by anonymous

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How two OS shares file information if both are installed on single machine?

posted Sep 10, 2015 by anonymous

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What is the maximum number of process that can be created in a linux system?

posted Sep 10, 2015 by anonymous

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How to rebuild logrotate.status on centos?

posted Sep 8, 2015 by Ankit

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Can I use C system() to replace bash script?

posted Sep 2, 2015 by Ritika

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Which is the standard way of compiling multiple file?

posted Aug 26, 2015 by Chirag Gangdev

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How DLL (Dynamic library) is linked during run time?

posted Aug 26, 2015 by anonymous

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Share POSIX semaphore among multiple processes

posted Aug 25, 2015 by anonymous

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How to enable double click copy option in Linux?

posted Aug 7, 2015 by anonymous

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Please explain the high level architecture of Linux Operating System?

posted Aug 4, 2015 by anonymous

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What is the difference between fedora and centos?

posted Jul 22, 2015 by anonymous

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How we can enable or disable startup service in Windows and Linux?

posted Jul 20, 2015 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What are the types of Lock Levels in Oracle?

posted Jul 10, 2015 by Kunal Kapoor

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What is the difference between name based virtual hosting and IP based virtual hosting ?

posted Jul 9, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What are inodes in Linux ? How to find the inode associated with a file ?

posted Jul 6, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is crontab and explain the fields in a crontab ?

posted Jul 6, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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How do you boot your system into the following modes, when you are in some trouble ?

posted Jul 2, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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Explain the fields in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow ?

posted Jul 2, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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Sorting paragraphs of text files in Linux?

posted Jun 29, 2015 by Daler

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What is SeLinux and please explain in detail?

posted Jun 26, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What are the run levels in linux and how to change them ?

posted Jun 26, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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Please explain umask and ulimit in Linux with difference ?

posted Jun 26, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What happens if RAM is full and still user tries to run a program?

posted Jun 19, 2015 by anonymous

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When some one says Address space of a process, what exactly he means by that? PCB?

posted Jun 19, 2015 by anonymous

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How to shutdown kernel SCTP functionality in linux ?

posted Jun 15, 2015 by Harshita

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Exclude a specific directory from rsync on linux?

posted Jun 9, 2015 by anonymous

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What is the best way to install various open-source packages on a Mac?

posted Jun 8, 2015 by anonymous

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How to deploy Java Application developed on Eclipse (Windows) to Linux?

posted May 21, 2015 by anonymous

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How to set mapreduce.input.fileinputformat.split.maxsize for a specific job ?

posted May 16, 2015 by Sudhakar Singh

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What is the difference between driver and device driver?

posted May 13, 2015 by anonymous

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How we can install Hadoop 1.2.1 on RHEL 7/6/5 or on CentOS?

posted May 7, 2015 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What is the difference between "hexdump" and "md5sum"?

posted May 5, 2015 by anonymous

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Detailed info about snooping used in cache Cache Coherency ?

posted Apr 23, 2015 by Sachidananda Sahu

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How to stop a mapreduce job from terminal running on Hadoop Cluster?

posted Apr 11, 2015 by Sudhakar Singh

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linux is kernel or os?

posted Apr 8, 2015 by anonymous

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Why to choose system calls instead of library functions?

posted Apr 7, 2015 by anonymous