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| During a Red Hat installation you decide to press Ctrl+Alt+F3, what do you see? |
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Port IRQ Address
/dev/ls0 7 0x378
/dev/ls1 5 0x278 |
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| Steps for making & installing software from source. |
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./configure
make
make install |
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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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| Red Hat uses what program to install, remove, and query packages |
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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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| 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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| 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 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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| man page and numbers section one is? |
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| 1 - executable programs or shell commands |
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| man page and numbers section two is? |
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| man page and numbers section three is? |
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| man page and numbers section four is? |
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| man page and numbers section five is? |
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| 5 - file formats and conventions |
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| man page and numbers section six is? |
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| man page and numbers section seven is? |
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| man page and numbers section eight is? |
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| 8 - system administration commands |
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| man page and numbers section nine is? |
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| see all pages for man tarfo |
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| to see all matches for the tarfoo command |
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| either man -f tarfoo or whatis tarfoo |
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| keyword search matches for tarfoo |
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| man -k tarfoo or apropos tarfoo |
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| to successively see all manpages for tarfoo |
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| use man -a tarfoo, pressing q to quit each displayed page |
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| the MANPATH variable specifies? |
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| where to look for man pages. |
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| man pages are searched with what character |
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| press what to search forward, what to search backward, what to scroll down a screen, what to scroll a screen backward and what to move one line at a time |
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N - search forward
Shift+N - search backward
spacebar - scroll down a screen
B - scroll a screen backward
enter - move one line down at a time |
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| the official home for linux documentation is the ? |
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| Linux Documentation Project (LDP). |
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| what is the web site for the official home of linux documentation. |
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| what is the official newsgroup for linux |
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| searchable interface for usenet articles is where? |
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| a series of commands in a file. |
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| what is the first line of a script |
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| a path to the shell typicaly #!/bin/bash |
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| how does one execute a bash script file thats not marked as executable |
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| bash scriptfile or set the scripts executable bits and use ./scriptfile |
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| loops in scripts start with what and always end with what. |
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| for while and until and they all end with done. |
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| the test command is used to determine what |
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| file types and compare values with other values. |
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| the read command is used to what? |
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| store user input into variables for use in the script. |
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| how do you make a variable available to itself and all child processes |
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| if a child process/shell exports a variable what happens if the child shell is exited |
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| an exit status of 0 indicates what |
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| successful completion of a process's execution |
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| an exit status of non-zero indicates what |
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| an error or failure of execution |
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| how does one see the previous command's exit status? |
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| what input variable is the commands process name |
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| what are the input variables for arguments to the process |
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| how does one allow a variable expansion while grouping text for display to the console. |
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| how does one display explicitly the characters shown |
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| suround text with single quotes (') |
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| how does one except(escape) one character |
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| prefix it with a backslash (/) |
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| where are alias's defined |
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| a substitute to a command for a small series of commands. |
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| an alias that uses a command name thats contained in the alias's definition will not do what? |
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| be expanded in the alias's execution |
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| how would you have a series of commands run in the current shell but still only type one command |
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| how does one see current functions |
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| what does a login session execute (in order) |
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~/.bash_profile
~/.bashrc
~/.bash_logout |
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| in a login session if a shell is invoked what file is read |
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| if an su or su username command is executed what ~/.bashrc is read |
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| how does one show all the options sed for their shell |
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| how does one set an option such as noclobber |
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| how does one unset an option |
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| how does one see all the shell's options and environment |
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| here are daemon control scripts |
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| /etc/rc.d/init.d for redhat and /etc/init.d for debian |
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| scripts have a set of conditions that can be used as arguments; typically they include what |
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| start, stop, restart, condrestart, and pause |
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| red hat uses the service command to do what |
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| access daemon control scripts such as service network restart |
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| the kill and killall commands differ in what way |
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| kill uses PID while killall useshte process name. |
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| send the SIGTERM or 15 signal by default |
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| sigkill is what signal number |
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| sighup is what signal number |
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| the command to send a sighup via sigkill or kill is what |
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| system logging is configured where |
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| what facilities does syslog include |
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| auth,cron,damon,ftp,kern,lpr,mail,news,syslog,user,uucp. |
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| what priorities does syslog include |
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| emerg,alert,crit,err,warning,notice,info, and debug |
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| what can you do in /etc/syslog.conf file entries |
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| specify the facility and priority and then point them to a target. |
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| if you specify auth.crit to a target of /var/log/authlog your doing what |
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| directing all syslog messages with the facility of auth and priority of crit and higher to the log file. |
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| if you specify cron=alert to a target in /etc/syslog.conf your doing what |
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| only the alert priority of the cron facility is being logged to that location |
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| in /etc/syslog.conf what does an entry of user.!err to a target do |
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| all priorities from info up to emerg except err are being logged |
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| is the debug priority included in syslog by default |
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| what targets does /etc/syslog.conf contain |
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1. a regular log file
2. a deferred-write log file
3. a remote machine that is configured as a syslog server.
4. a long username
5. set of usernames sparared by commas
6. a device such as /dev/tty12 |
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| a device being set as a target in /etc/syslong.conf means what |
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| send the facility and priorities to that device, typically a console. |
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| how does one watch the latest entries to a log file |
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| tail -f [path to logfile] |
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| runs jobs at a single specific time |
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| the batch service does what |
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| runs jobs at a single time when the system utilization is low |
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| the cron service does what |
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| runs jobs regularly at specific times. |
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| the user crontabs can be edited by entering what |
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| crontab enteries contain what fields |
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| minutes, hours, day of the month, the month, they day of the week and the command being run |
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| which service stores the user's environment at the job's submit time |
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T or F
you must set environment variables and paths for cron tasks to work properly |
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| where do you allow or deny at and cron jobs from nomal users |
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/etc/at.allow and /etc/at.deny
/etc/cron.allow and /etc/cron.deny |
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| tar has three main modes, list them |
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| x for expand, t for list, and c for create |
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| what two compression methods are supported for tar. |
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z for gzip and gunzip
j for bzip2 and bunzip2 |
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| using tar the v option does what |
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| shows a verbose listing of whats being archived or expanded and when listing the v option shows a listing of the archive contents with an output similar to ls |
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| the network time protocol |
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| where is ntpd configured at |
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| ntpdate command can be run at a time server to do what |
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| how are a series of authoritative time servers configured |
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| specifying the keyword server followed by the FQDN or IP of the server in the /etc/ntp.conf file of NTP |
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| the NTP program is used for what |
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| monitoring the status of the ntpd daemon |
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| ntptrace command is used for what |
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| determining the path from your server to the Tier 1 time source |
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| ips are made of how many bits |
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| how many octets are in an ip |
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| how many bits in an octet |
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| bits are valued left to right as what |
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| the three main address class ranges are what |
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| A class network have ___ bit networks and ____ bit hosts |
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| B class network have ___ bit networks and ____ bit hosts |
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| C class network have ___ bit networks and ____ bit hosts |
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| a default class A subnetmask is what |
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| a default class B subnetmask is what |
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| a default class C subnetmask is what |
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| there are three internal or private address ranges, list them |
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| 10.0.0.0,192.168.0.0,and 172.16.0.0-172.31.255.255 |
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| if subnetting a class C with netmask 255.255.255.192 how many subnets and how many hosts per subnet. |
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| 2 subnets with 62 hosts each |
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| if subnetting a class C with netmask 255.255.255.224 how many subnets and how many hosts per subnet. |
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| if subnetting a class C with netmask 255.255.255.240 how many subnets and how many hosts per subnet. |
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| 14 subnets, 14 hosts each |
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| if subnetting a class C with netmask 255.255.255.248 how many subnets and how many hosts per subnet. |
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| 30 subnets with 6 hosts per subnet |
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| what is the host command used for |
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| quick retrieval of the ip of a particular host or domain name. |
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| nslookup is being retired, but what does it allow you to do |
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| use commandline and interactive retrieval of name and ip resolutions plus mining of a name server for many other details. |
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| the dig command is used for what |
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| is replacing nslookup and though only a command-line mode is available, it can mine such items as MX servers, allowing for searching by record types. |
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| determining a host's availability |
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| traceroute is used for what |
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| determining where the error lies between a host and a remote host. |
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| both ping and traceroute use the -n option for what |
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| not resolving the names associated with queries, speeding their operation. |
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| to disable a normal user's ability to gather live data from the w and who commands, use what command |
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| to set the eht0 interface to have the ip of 192.168.1.2 and the network mask of 255.255.255.0 and bring the interface up in a single command what would you use |
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| ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up |
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| to enable forwarding between interfaces on a multiple-interface machine, use what command |
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| echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward |
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| how do you set the default gateway for a machine to 192.168.1.1 |
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| route add default gw 192.168.1.1 |
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| to stop a attack from a particular host on 10.10.68.69 what command would you use |
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| how do you view current connections to your machine |
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| how is netstat -a 's output displayed in the local address field |
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local services are shown by name such as
192.168.15.5:ssh, and remote clients attaching using high-end ports, are displayed as 192.168.15.2:4417 |
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| client name resolution is configured by three files: |
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/etc/hosts for IP-to-name mappings on local only
/etc/nsswitch.conf for setting the available name resolution options and
/etc/resolv.conf for name server configuration. |
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| /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/chap-secrets are typically set to what and owned by who |
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| 600, and root user and group |
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| the inetd and xinetd are what kind of daemons |
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| where are the service definitions for the inetd daemon |
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| what file contains the defaults for services and the include directory for xinetd. |
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| include directory is typically included in /etc/xinetd.conf |
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| how do you convert from inetd to xinetd and what is the most important file to convert |
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| you use a conversion tool and the most important file to move information from is the /etc/inetd.conf file |
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| when should you not use inetd or xinetd and give examples of such services. |
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| any daemon that must generate a key or needs to start multiple copies of itself shouldn't be run under inetd or xinetd, such as sshd, ssl, and apache. |
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| what service is constructed to work probperly with inetd/xinetd |
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| what is the easiest way to not run telnet on a default linux machine |
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| comment it out of the /etc/inetd.conf file or to remember that telnet is disabled by default |
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| sendmail is what type of service |
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| sendmail uses what for source configuration |
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| sendmail.mc which is compiled into the sendmail.cf file. |
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| how does one make changes to the sendmail service such as disable SMTP relay. |
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| sendmail.mc should be altered and recompiled into the sendmail.cf then sendmail should be restarted |
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| where do you set up user identity aliases for sendmail |
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| where can you find user's email addresses to forward mail to |
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| how do you force sendmail to update its aliases from /etc/aliases |
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| run newaliases command or sendmail -bi |
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| undelivered local user email is kept in what directory |
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| the mail directory should contain how many text files per user |
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| where is undelivered or qued mail for remote systems held at |
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| /var/spool/mqueue directory |
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| how can the directory that contains undelivered or queued mail for remote systems be checked |
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| how is apache server controlled |
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| service control script or apachectl comand |
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| apachectl features what option for restarting and rereading the apache configuration file |
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| what is the apache configuration file |
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| /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf |
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| older apache systems my use any or all of what files |
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| /etc/httpd.conf, /etc/access.conf, and /etc/srm.conf |
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| NFS uses what file to configure shares available to other systems |
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| in the /etc/exports file entries must contain what |
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| a full path to a directory and can be restricted via hostnames, IPs, or globs of names and IPs. |
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| what option allows root to access shares in NFS |
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| the root user is restricted and mapped by NFS to what account |
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| how do you reexport all the configured shares in /etc/exports |
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| samba uses what for file and printer sharing |
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| samba uses what for name resolution and browsing functions |
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| where is sambas configuration file located |
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| what are the three sections of the smb.conf file |
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| global,homes, and printers. |
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| after editing the smb.conf file what do you run to test the files syntax |
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| what command checks user connections specifics, including shard memory percentages, and filenames that are locked and in use. |
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| how would one connect to a windows or samba system from linux clients and perform various operations |
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| what configuration file and configuration file format does bind version 4 have |
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| /etc/named.boot and it has a simple configuration file consisting of single line entries that define the server functions |
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| what configuration file and configuration file format does bind version 8 and higher have |
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| /etc/named.conf has c or c++ like syntax and contains entries consisting of multiple lines and brackets |
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| what do TCP wrappers consist of |
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| the libwrap.a library, daemons that are designed to use libwrap.a, and the entries in the /etc/host.allow and /etc/host.deny files |
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| older systems use what TCP wrappers consist of what |
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| tcpd daemon, the /etc/inetd.conf file, and the /etc/host.allow and /etc/host.deny files |
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| SSH is used to remotely provide secure shell sessions to users. |
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| what directory does ssh use and what does it contain |
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| /etc/ssh and it contains the ssh_config,sshrc, and sshd_config files |
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| where is the known_hosts file stored and what does it contain |
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| ~.ssh contains known_hosts file for storing the public keys of systems that have been accepted and after using the ssh-keygen command the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files for RSA keys and id_dsa and rd_dsa.pub files for DSA keys. |
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| what command generates a public and private key for SSH |
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| where is the systems public key kept |
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| where does your system keep other systems public keys |
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| how do you load the keys into ssh-agent |
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| answers ssh-protocol queries for the user |
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| command used to initiate connections for shell sessions |
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| used to provide rcp-like copying of files and directories from host to host. |
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