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README.md
Table of Contents
1. Contributors
2. General Questions
3. Simple Linux Questions
4. Medium Linux Questions
5. Hard Linux Questions
6. Expert Linux Questions
7. Networking Questions
8. MySQL Questions
9. DevOps Questions
10. Fun Questions
11. Demo Time
12. Other Great References
[⬆] Contributors:
moregeek
typhonius
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schumar
negesti
peter
andreashappe
quatrix
biyanisuraj
pedroguima
Ben
bharatnc
What do the following commands do and how would you use them?
tee
awk
tr
cut
tac
curl
wget
watch
head
tail
less
cat
touch
sar
netstat
tcpdump
lsof
export myvar=hello
How many NTP servers would you configure in your local ntp.conf?
What does the column 'reach' mean in ntpq -p output?
You need to upgrade kernel at 100-1000 servers, how you would do this?
How can you get Host, Channel, ID, LUN of SCSI disk?
How can you limit process memory usage?
What is bash quick substitution/caret replace(^x^y)?
Do you know of any alternative shells? If so, have you used any?
What is a tarpipe (or, how would you go about copying everything, including hardlinks and special files, from one server
to another)?
How can you tell if the httpd package was already installed?
How can you list the contents of a package?
How can you determine which package is better: openssh-server-5.3p1-118.1.el6_8.x86_64 or openssh-server-6.6p1-
1.el6.x86_64 ?
Can you explain to me the difference between block based, and object based storage?
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What kind of keys are in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and what it is this file used for?
I've added my public ssh key into authorized_keys but I'm still getting a password prompt, what can be wrong?
Did you ever create RPM's, DEB's or solaris pkg's?
What does :(){ :|:& };: do on your system?
How do you catch a Linux signal on a script?
Can you catch a SIGKILL?
What's happening when the Linux kernel is starting the OOM killer and how does it choose which process to kill first?
Describe the linux boot process with as much detail as possible, starting from when the system is powered on and
ending when you get a prompt.
What's a chroot jail?
When trying to umount a directory it says it's busy, how to find out which PID holds the directory?
What's LD_PRELOAD and when it's used?
You ran a binary and nothing happened. How would you debug this?
What are cgroups? Can you specify a scenario where you could use them?
How can you remove/delete a file with file-name consisting of only non-printable/non-type-able characters?
How can you increase or decrease the priority of a process in Linux?
A running process gets EAGAIN: Resource temporarily unavailable on reading a socket. How can you close this bad
socket/file descriptor without killing the process?
What do you control with swapiness?
How do you change TCP stack buffers? How do you calculate it?
What is Huge Tables? Why isn't it enabled by default? Why and when use it?
What is LUKS? How to use it?
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[⬆] MySQL questions:
A careless sysadmin executes the following command: chmod 444 /bin/chmod - what do you do to fix this?
I've lost my root password, what can I do?
I've rebooted a remote server but after 10 minutes I'm still not able to ssh into it, what can be wrong?
If you were stuck on a desert island with only 5 command-line utilities, which would you choose?
You come across a random computer and it appears to be a command console for the universe. What is the first thing
you type?
Tell me about a creative way that you've used SSH?
You have deleted by error a running script, what could you do to restore it?
What will happen on 19 January 2038?
How to reboot server when reboot command is not responding?
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