Q: What is the purpose of the sudo command?
A: The sudo command is used to execute a command as a superuser or another user. It is used to provide temporary access to privileged commands that would otherwise be inaccessible to a user. It is also used to provide an additional layer of security by prompting for a password before executing a command.
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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 user’s 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.
Let’s record the user’s login session with script command as shown.
[[email protected] ~]# 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:
[[email protected] ~]# nano my-session-record.txt script started on Friday 22 November 2013 08:19:01 PM IST [r[email protected] ~]# 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.
[[email protected] ~]# dmesg Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Initializing cgroup subsys cpu Linux version 2.6.32-279.el6.i686 ([email protected]) (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.
[[email protected] ~]# 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’.
[[email protected] ~]# 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.
[[email protected] ~]# 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.
[[email protected] ~]# 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 ‘resolv.conf’ file is a configuration file for?
Answer : The ‘/etc/resolv.conf’ is the configuration file for DNS at client side.
[[email protected] ~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 172.16.16.94
Q.8: Which command is used to create soft link of a file?
- 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.
[[email protected] ~]# 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.
[[email protected] ~]# pwd /home/tecmint
[[email protected] ~]# 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.
[[email protected] ~]# 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) ...
That’s 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.
