Freshers Choice

Which partitions might you create on the mail server’s hard drive(s) other than the root, swap, and boot partitions?

Which partitions might you create on the mail server’s hard drive(s) other than the root, swap, and boot partitions?
[Choose all correct answers]
A) /var/spool
B) /tmp
C) /proc
D) /bin
E) /home
Answer(s): A, B, E – Separating /var/spool onto its own partition helps to ensure that if something goes wrong with the mail server or spool, the output cannot overrun [...]

There are seven fields in the /etc/passwd file. Which of the following lists all the fields in the correct order?

There are seven fields in the /etc/passwd file. Which of the following lists all the fields in the correct order?
Choose one:
a. username, UID, GID, home directory, command, comment
b. username, UID, GID, comment, home directory, command
c. UID, username, GID, home directory, comment, command
d. username, UID, group name, GID, home directory, comment
Answer: b
The seven fields required for [...]

What file would you edit in your home directory to change which window manager you want to use?

What file would you edit in your home directory to change which window manager you want to use?
A) Xinit
B) .xinitrc
C) XF86Setup
D) xstart
E) xf86init

Answer: B – The ~/.xinitrc file allows you to set which window man-ager you want to use when logging in to X from that account.
Answers a, d, and e are all invalid files. [...]

What key combination can you press to suspend a running job and place it in the background?

What key combination can you press to suspend a running job and place it in the background?
ctrl-z
Using ctrl-z will suspend a job and put it in the background.
The easiest, most basic form of backing up a file is to _____ it to another location.
copy
The easiest most basic form of backing up a file is to [...]

What command would you type to use the cpio to create a backup called backup.cpio of all the users’ home directories?

What command would you type to use the cpio to create a backup called backup.cpio of all the users’ home directories?
find /home | cpio -o > backup.cpio
The find command is used to create a list of the files and directories contained in home. This list is then piped to the cpio utility as a list [...]

In order to run fsck on the root partition, the root partition must be mounted as

In order to run fsck on the root partition, the root partition must be mounted as
readonly
You cannot run fsck on a partition that is mounted as read-write.
In order to improve your system’s security you decide to implement shadow passwords. What command should you use?
pwconv
The pwconv command creates the file /etc/shadow and changes all passwords to [...]

You wish to restore the file memo.ben which was backed up in the tarfile MyBackup.tar. What command should you type?

You wish to restore the file memo.ben which was backed up in the tarfile MyBackup.tar. What command should you type?
tar xf MyBackup.tar memo.ben
This command uses the x switch to extract a file. Here the file memo.ben will be restored from the tarfile MyBackup.tar.
You need to view the contents of the tarfile called MyBackup.tar. What command [...]

You need to see the last fifteen lines of the files dog, cat and horse. What command should you use?

You need to see the last fifteen lines of the files dog, cat and horse. What command should you use?
tail -15 dog cat horse
The tail utility displays the end of a file. The -15 tells tail to display the last fifteen lines of each specified file.
Who owns the data dictionary?
The SYS user owns the data [...]