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what is DNS?
why we required CHROOT package? can you explain it?
What is the location for DHCP server default leased configs file?
what is the command and syntax to check DNS server named.conf file errors?
What is the command and syntax to check DNS server zone files config errors?
How do you update DNS zone file entries with out restarting named demon?
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1) How to creat swap if you dont have free partation?
this is some what tricky question if you are new to Linux Administration
here is the command to create swap if you dont have free partation
before doing this you have switchoff the swap
swapoff -a
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/swapfile bs=1k count=1024
swapon filename
2)How to see swap details?
cat /proc/swap
free
3)How to … Continue Reading
1)How do you find out what’s your shell? – echo $SHELL
2)What’s the command to find out today’s date? – date
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