Information technology is widely used in

In a company there are 3 groups i.e Finance, HR and Marketing. Each groups havin
g 3 members. There is a file named as file1.txt. The permission set for the abov
e file is rwx-rw----x. Now the question is only the members of Hr and Marketing
group can view and edit the file. But the file is not accessible to the members
of Finance Group. Can anyone tell me what would be the exact command for linux.r
oot@localhost#
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------what is the roles and responsibilities in linux system admin having 2yrs exp..?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In Linux how you set time a limit on quota?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How did you do the Health check in Linux?
Top :
Top Command can provide the top processes, CPU Load, Memory
Utilization, Swap Utilization, Running/Zombie Process,
Uptime, etc..
iostat:
This command will provide the information about the disk
utilization, Read/Write rate, etc..
[root@fgrestore-100343-cr312561-app001 ~]# iostat
Linux 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64 (fgrestore-100343-cr312561-app001)
15
_x86_64_
(2 CPU)
avg-cpu: %user
11.61

%nice %system %iowait %steal

0.00
3.61 12.72
0.00

Device:
sda

tps
3.43

Blk_read/s
81.99

Blk_wrtn/s
27.25

08/10/20

%idle
72.06
Blk_read
69701072

Blk_wrtn
23168588

[root@fgrestore-100343-cr312561-app001 ~]#
vmstat:
vmstat command provides the swap memory utilization report.
[root@fgrestore-100343-cr312561-app001 ~]# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu----r b swpd free buff cache si so
bi
bo in cs us sy id wa st
1 1
0 260272 7588 4544680
0
0
21
7
6
4 12 4 72 13
0

sar (System Activity Reporter):

sar tool can provide the report about CPU Load, iowait and
other useful info at specified intervals.
dmesg:
dmesg command displays all the server errors including
Hardware, booting, network errors
This command will retrieve the information from log files
which located in /var/log
Other Useful commands to collect some info about the
server :
runlevel

To Know the Current Run Level

netstat

To see the Network sessions

netstat

rn

who / finger
ps ef
files

To View the gateways configured

To View the Users logged in detail

To view all the running process and its related

sestatus

To check SELINUX status

service iptables status

ifconfig a
configured

To check firewall status

To View the Network cards and IP Address

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How to add Crete a new ftp user? or How to add a exiting user into FTP ?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How to activate / deploy licence in RHEL 6 and what will happen if you don't act
ivate / deploy licence in RHEL 6 ?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When u comment the ctrl+alt+del trap in the /etc/inittab save the file. Tell the
command to save the changes without rebooting the machine?
init q
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How we can set the password length in linux?
[root@fgrestore-100343-cr312561-app001 ~]# cat /etc/login.defs|grep -i PASS_MIN_
LEN
#
PASS_MIN_LEN
Minimum acceptable password length.
PASS_MIN_LEN
5
[root@fgrestore-100343-cr312561-app001 ~]#

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In /boot/grub/grub.conf file there is a line kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/de

v/sda2, What is the meaning of "/" before vmlinuz? Pls explain?
what is first RHEL 5.x version support ext4 filesystem?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------what is the last file executed during the boot process?
/sbin/mingetty tty1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What is the difference between kill and kill -9 commands?
kill command uses signal SIGTERM to kill processes by default it is kill -15
kill -9 uses the sinal SIGKILL to kill a processes (i.e force termination of pro
cesses )
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I have my default runlevel is init5 now i have configured to init 3,now i wanna
run my system in init3 process without reboot the system .How will you do for th
is scenario?
#vim /etc/inittab
id:5:initdefault
you can replace 5 to 3 and save file
after that without reboot the system go to runlevel 3, use
following command
telinit 3
or
init 3
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I have a user name in /etc/vsftpd/user_list which is for blocking the ftp user.
Now i blocked the user as well ,but without removing username in user_list i wan
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