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| What is the default install mode for Red Hat? |
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| Which command shows currently loaded kernel modules and their dependencies? |
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| What command causes a default install to boot directly to run level 2 after system initalization? |
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| Need to create a boot disk on a running linux machine, what is the command? |
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| During a Red Hat installation you decide to press Ctrl+Alt+F3, what do you see? |
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| What program is used to configure PNP devices |
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| What command is used to show PNP information? |
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| What is the file used to set individual PNP devices? |
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| What are the printer ports? |
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Port IRQ Address
/dev/ls0 7 0x378
/dev/ls1 5 0x278 |
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| Command that reads the hardware clock time |
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| The command that sets the system clock to the hardware clock time. |
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| How many swap files can you have? |
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| Where is the GRUB configuration file? |
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| Steps for making & installing software from source. |
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./configure
make
make install |
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| Were are the shared libraries located by default? |
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| What command do you use when a library error occurs |
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| ldconfig reads what configuration for library locations |
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| Reads a binary and reports its library dependencies. |
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| where does ldconfig write it's library cache to? |
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| Debian uses's what command to install, delete, and query packages? |
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| What program is used for Debian automated updates? |
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| Where is the Debian package database located? |
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| Red Hat uses what program to install, remove, and query packages |
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| where is the Red Hat package database located? |
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| Show the command, with switch's, that shows the serial ports configuration |
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| How do you avoid problems with the 1024th cyclinder? |
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Use a small boot partition
Enable LBA in the boot manager |
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| If a system with two printer ports and a sound card has a conflict which IRQ do you check |
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| What command do you use to configure a serial port |
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| The command that sets the serial ports baud rate |
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| setserial /dev/ttys0 baud_rate 57600 |
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| What command do you use to view IRQ's? |
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| What command do you use to view DMA |
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| What command do you use to view I/O? |
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| Command to view configuration information about IRQ, DMA, and I/O port usage? |
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| What command do you use to view configuration information about the PCI bus? |
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| What are the serial ports, IRQ's and I/O addresses? |
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Port IRQ I/O address
/dev/ttys0 4 0x3f8
/dev/tty1 3 0x2f8
/dev/tty2 4 0x3e8
/dev/tty3 3 0x3e8 |
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| GRUB boots to a prompt only, what command do you run to fix it? |
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| grub-install with the boot disk as the argument. |
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| What is the correct command line structure format? |
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command option
command argument option |
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| What are the redirection prompts |
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> Write to a file
< Read from a file |
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| Replace individual characters |
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| greps uses -i, -r, -n and -v for what? |
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-i insensitivity
-r recursive
-n line numbering
-v verbose |
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| Stream 0, stream 1, and stream 2 are what? |
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0 = stdin
1 = stdout
2 = stderr |
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| sends stderr and stdout to the same place |
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| What does an & mean after a command |
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| Sends it to the background |
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| Suspends a running command |
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| the command to send a program to the background |
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| A job in the jobs command with a + means what? |
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| How is a previous job listed |
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| what command acts on the current job running in the background |
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| How do you kill a job in the background |
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| kill %x where x is the job number to be ended |
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| raises or lowers the priority of a job |
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| Programs start with a priority of what |
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| By default nice drops or increase a jobs priority and by how much |
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| what are jobs priority from highest to lowest |
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| What keyboard letter keys control cursor movements |
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h = left
j = down
k = up
l - right |
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| command, insert, lastline or ex mode |
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| create file system on a new drive or partition |
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| command to make a ext2 file system on a new partition |
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| what switch causes mkfs to create a ext3 journal file system |
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| What is the command to check a file system |
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| to use fsck what is the status of the file system |
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| mounted read only or unmounted |
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| how many columns in the fstab |
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| what are the column names in the fstab file |
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| device, mount, point, file system type, options, dump type, and fsck |
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| what does user and users keywords in the mtab file mean |
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user= only the user who mounted the file can unmount it.
users = any user with proper permission can mount or unmount the file system |
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| what commands show the mounted file systems? |
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mount
cat /proc/mounts
cat /etc/mtab |
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| quotas are placed on file system how |
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| file system by file system basis |
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| what are the names of the quota files and where are they located? |
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aquota.group and aquota.user
root of the file system |
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| What file do you edit to enable quotas and what commands are placed in the file? |
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/etc/fstab
usrquota, grpquota |
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| what command do you run to populate aquota.user and aquota.group |
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| what is the command and switch's to set a users quota? |
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| How do you start the quota subsystem |
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quotaon -a
quotaon filesystem |
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| what command do you use to check qoutas |
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users - quota
root - repquota |
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| how are file permissions arranged |
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what command changes ownership
what command changes group owner |
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| SGID bit set on a files causes what to happen |
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| group ownership of the directory cascades to all created objects |
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What are hardlinks
Waht are softlinks |
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Multiple names pointing to the same inode and file data
Separate files with its own inode that points to another file |
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| Difference between hard and soft links when spanning file systems |
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| symbolic links can span file systems hard links can not |
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| what is the difference between find command and locate command |
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find is a real time command, slower but more accurate
locate command is database driven, faster but returns hit for every instance of the search term |
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| what switch is used to execute a command with find |
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| where is the locate configuration file at |
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| what are the x setup tools |
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xf86config
XF86Setup
Xconfigurator |
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| where are the X configuration files and were are they located |
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/etc/X11/XF86Config for version 3
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for version 4 |
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| what is the start up sequence for X |
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| xinit - .xinitrc or /etc/X11/xinitrc - Xresource or /etc/X11/xdm/Xresource |
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| What are the valid window managers |
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| XFCE, AfterSetp, Window Maker, Blackbox, Sawfish, Sawmill, and Enlightenment |
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| what is the command to display a remote telent session? |
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| export DISPLAY=yourhost:0.0 |
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| Command to display client application on a second display |
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| command to view loaded modules in the kernel |
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| command to load single modules |
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| command to load or unload modules in groups |
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| use ---- to view information about modules |
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| to determine kernel version and architecture |
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| What does the kernel use to load modules |
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| what does kmod use to load/unload groups of modules |
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| what does modprobe use to load modules |
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| What program builds the modules.dep file |
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| what program does the depmod program read |
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| what is the name of the kernel configuration file and where is it typically located |
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| what are the three kernel configuration files |
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| make config, make menuconfig, and make xconfig |
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| where is the makefile located |
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| typical targets for the makefile are |
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| config, menuconfig, xconfig, oldconfig, modules, install, modules_install and depmod |
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| where is the system initialization log |
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| what program can read the dmesg |
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| what are the lilo switches and what do they do |
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-R runs a command on next boot
-r changes root directory
-s saves the boot sector to a named file
-u restores a saved boot sector with a supplied file name |
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| Command to restore GRUB bootloader |
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| grub-install /dev/hda for an ide drive |
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| command to boot a kernel from drives 1st partition |
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| what and where is the default configuration for init |
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| What is the default runlevel in the inittab file |
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| What command can cause init to reread its configuration |
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| command to shut down a system at 4 PM with a 20 second wait |
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| how do you reboot the system immediately |
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| how do you halt a system shutdown |
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| what are the linux printing commands |
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lpd - printer deamon
lpr - print job submission
lpq - printer query tool
lpc - printer configuration tool
lprm - remove a print job |
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| How do you print two jobs |
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| how do you work with a particular printer |
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| command to remove first job from the default queue |
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| Remove all print jobs from the default queue |
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| How to remove first print jobs from all queues |
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| Remove all print jobs from all queues |
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