What command you execute to display the last five commands you have entered? Which partitions might - 1. history|tail -5 2. /var 3. fdisk, parted 4. rm, rmdir 5. /etc/passwd

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Question: What command you execute to display the last five commands you have entered?
Which partitions might you create on mail server HDDs other than the root, swap and boot partitions?
Which partitioning tool is available in all distributions?
Which two commands can you use to delete directories?
Which file defines all users on your system?

Answer: 1. history|tail -5
2. /var
3. fdisk, parted
4. rm, rmdir
5. /etc/passwd

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Question: What command you execute to display the last five commands you have entered?
Which partitions might you create on mail server HDDs other than the root, swap and boot partitions?
Which partitioning tool is available in all distributions?
Which two commands can you use to delete directories?
Which file defines all users on your system?

Answer:

1. history|tail -5
2. /var
3. fdisk, parted
4. rm, rmdir
5. /etc/passwd Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Arun Tomar | Date: 6/30/2008 |

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1.may be history
2./var/mail partition
3. fdisk
4. rmdir and rm -rf
5. /etc/passwd Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: shivaram | Date: 6/30/2008 |

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history 5 //to see last five commands

#cat /etc/passwd //to see all users
# rmdir dirname //to remove directories
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Answered by: priyanka dash | Date: 6/30/2008 |

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1) history 5 is also enough ,,,, but the thing is 5 will display even current command so use history 6 to show past 5 commands.

2) fdisk

3)cat /etc/passwd //to see all users

4)rmdir -d or rmdir -r -f

5)/etc/passwd Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: prashanjit | Date: 8/10/2008 |

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1. history|tail -6
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Answered by: linganna | Date: 8/11/2008 |

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history 5
/home,/var,/tmp
fdisk
rmdir,rm -r
/etc/passwd Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: nihar ranjan panda | Date: 8/23/2008 |

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1. #history 5
2. /var/spool/mail
3.disk druid/fdisk
4.rmdir.rm -r
5. /etc/passwd Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: prakhar srivatava | Date: 9/29/2008 |

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1> " history 5 " is used to see last 5 commands
2>"/var/mail " partition
3>fdisk
4>rmdir , rm -r
5>etc/passwd Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: shineesh P K | Date: 10/13/2009 |

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1.history 5
3.fdisk
4.rmdir directory name,rmdir -rf directory name
5.cat /etc/passwd Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Pratibha Singh | Date: 10/22/2009 |

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history 5
/var/spool/mail/
fdisk
rmdir,rm-rf
/etc/passwd Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: masthan | Date: 8/17/2010 |

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