Re: Solaris Interview Questions

Re: Solaris Interview Questions

Source: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.solaris/2006−03/msg00903.html

• From: Alan Coopersmith <alanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

• Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:44:56 +0000 (UTC)

"Raju" <raju4unix@xxxxxxxxx> writes in comp.unix.solaris:

|5.SSH & Telnet Diff?

ssh good, telnet bad, diff clunky, diff −u better.

|6.What is the N/W interface card in E450 server?

It's the one you installed for that. There are several different
cards available, so no one can tell you without access to the hardware
or your purchasing records.

|8.grow to / grow by?

Questions make no sense? Answers won't either!

|9.Any idea on sun diagnostics?

Lots of ideas. Which were you looking for?

|13.How to configure NIS & NFS? (In juneral Terms)

See the sysadmin guides on http://docs.sun.com/

|14.Automount is not working what to do?

Fix it?

|15.VX notify?

No thanks.

|16.DGadd?

DGminus!

|19.How can u set SETFACL?

With the setfacl command?

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|20.Diff Betwen file inode & Dir inode?

One is for files, one is for directories. Duh!

|21.Boot error Messages?

No thanks. I like my boot error free.

|22.Alternative boot_____?

Regular is good for me thank you. It's good to know alternatives are
available, but I prefer not to use them unless necessary.

|25.How can you delete a user id without deleting his home directory?

By not telling the user delete command to delete the user's directory.

|32.What are the files updated when we create user?

The ones specified in the man page for the user creation command you are
using.

|33.Kernal Installation files?

Used to install Kernal? What's Kernal?

|34.How can u restore password file? from opassword?

No silly, from backup tape!

|35.What is the main system file in os?

/etc/system of course.

|36.root,user,swap,opt from where u push?

Push from behind, it's easier to get good leverage that way.

|37.Destroyed?

Please don't!

|38.Syslog messages?

Here's one:
Feb 24 18:48:14 xxxx scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
/pci@0,0/pci1022,7460@6/pci−ide@b/ide@0 (ata0):
Feb 24 18:48:14 xxxx timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0

What are you going to do about it?

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How about when it gets so bad, the next message is:

Feb 24 18:48:15 xxxx ufs: [ID 702911 kern.warning] WARNING: Error

writing master during ufs log roll
Feb 24 18:48:15 xxxx ufs: [ID 127457 kern.warning] WARNING: ufs log for
/space changed state to Error
Feb 24 18:48:15 xxxx ufs: [ID 616219 kern.warning] WARNING: Please
umount(1M) /space and run fsck(1M)

Now what?

|39Primary bootblock?

Secondary bootblock!

|Pleae Help me !!!

You can't really expect real help with completely nonsense questions can
you? What do you expect to get for a useful answer to a question like
"Destroyed?" What is destroyed? What about it do you want to know
about? How to make sure it's destroyed? How to recover when it's
destroyed? How to find a new job when your boss finds it's destroyed?

Before wasting any more of your time posting useless gibberish, try
reading: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart−questions.html
and then at least do a few google searches or read the docs on
docs.sun.com first. If you're not willing to do that, you shouldn't
pass any interview for a sysadmin job, because that's a good part of
what you'll have to do on the job. Your boss won't accept "Sorry the
server's down − I posted to Usenet, so someone may help in a few days,
but I'm too lazy to research myself. Everyone will just have to wait."

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Working for, but definitely not speaking for, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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