| Question 1: Which of the following statements are true? |
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A harddisk with more than 1024 cylinders can't be mounted without LBA-mode |
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The LBA-mode of a harddisk is used to turn on DMA or UDMA |
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A harddisk with more than 1.2 GByte capacity can only be used in LBA-mode |
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A harddisk with more than 1024 cylinders should be used in LBA-mode |
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LBA-mode does not change the capacity of a harddisk |
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| Question 2: You want to install a ISA-Plug and Play Card into your computer. Which step is necessary to use this card with Linux? |
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Nothing, Linux is able to use such cards without any configuration |
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Enter the correct settings in /etc/pnp.conf |
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Enter the hardware parameters in /etc/pnp |
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Use isapnp and pnpdump |
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Linux is not able to use Plug and Play Cards |
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| Question 3: How could you describe the following commandline? foo & bar & foobar |
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The commands foo and bar are started in the background, foobar is started in the foreground |
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The commands foo, bar and foobar are started in the background. |
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The command foo is processed. If it results without error, then bar and foobar are processed. |
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The commands foo, bar and foobar are processed one after another. |
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The command foo is processed. If it results without error, then bar will be processed. If bar results without error, foobar will be processed. |
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| Question 4: Many server-processes allow the root-user to force them to read their configfiles while running. How is this done? |
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Use the reconf command |
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Send them the SIGCONF signal |
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Use the ps command |
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Send them the SIGPIPE signal |
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Send them the SIGHUP signal |
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| Question 5: What command would you use to copy all files inside the current directory which names end with a number to /tmp |
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cp ?[0-9] /tmp |
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cp *[:num:] /tmp |
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cp *.[0-9] /tmp |
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cp [*0-9] /tmp |
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cp *[0-9] /tmp |
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| Question 6: What command would you use to get a list of all installed debian packages on your system? |
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dpkg -L |
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dpkg --all |
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cat /var/lib/dpkg/available |
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dpkg -l |
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| Question 7: How could you get the information, how many kilobytes are used by the directory /home/foo including all subdirectories? |
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du -s /home/foo |
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cb --kilobyte --recursive /home/foo |
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dirsize /home/foo |
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ls -laR /home/foo |
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free --used_space /home/foo |
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| Question 8: What would the following command search for? find / -perm +4000 |
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All files with a permission of at least 4000 |
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All files which are permutated more than 4000 times. |
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All files which are networking sockets with a permanent connection and which have transmitted more than 4000 Bytes |
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All files which are permutated more than 4000 minutes ago. |
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All files which are "unchanged" since more than 4000 minutes. |
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| Question 9: How could you display all lines of text from the file foo which are not empty? |
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grep ".*" foo |
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grep -v \r\n foo |
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grep -v ^\r\n foo |
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grep -v "[]" foo |
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grep -v ^$ foo |
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| Question 10: User Bertha is member of different groups. How could you ensure, that her default group is foobar? |
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Ensure that the groupname foobar is the first entry in her /etc/group line |
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Ensure that the GID of foobar is the lowest GID of all her GIDs |
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Add the line "chgrp foobar" inside her startup script |
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Ensure that the GID of foobar is the highest GID of all her GIDs QEND:10: |
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Ensure that the GID of foobar is placed in her /etc/passwd entry |
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| Question 11: You want to install a Linux-Server without keyboard. What of the following is necessary to avoid error messages during startup? |
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Nothing |
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Load the module nokeyb.o |
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Configure the CMos-Setup "Halt on" to "All but keyboard" |
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Enter an entry "alias keyboard off" in /etc/modules.conf |
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Create an empty file /etc/nokeyb |
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| Question 12: How can you detect, which ISA-Plug and Play Cards are installed on your computer? |
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Use the lspnp command |
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Read the file /proc/bus/isa/pnp |
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Read the file /proc/pnp |
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Use the pnpdump command |
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Use the isapnp command |
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| Question 13: In the directory /home/foo exists a file named bar which is a symbolic link to /etc/services. If you would copy the link to /tmp using the command cp /home/foo/bar /tmp what would happen? |
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Nothing. The cp-command is not made for copying links. |
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The destination /tmp/bar is a symbolic link to /etc/services |
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The cp command would ask you whether to create a link or a file |
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The destination /tmp/bar is a symbolic link to /home/foo/bar |
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The destination /tmp/bar is a regular file with the same content as /etc/services |
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| Question 14: What permissions need the files /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? |
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-rw-rw-rw-/-rw-rw-r-- |
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-rw-r--r--/-rw------- |
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-rwsr--r--/-rw------- |
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-rwxr--r--/-rw------t |
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-rw-r--r--/-rw-r--r-- |
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| Question 15: What would be the default file permission modes for new files, if you set umask to 022 ? |
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022 |
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644 |
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550 |
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755 |
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220 |
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| Question 16: You have to move the whole directory-tree /home/foo to /oldusers. What command would you use? |
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mv -R /home/foo /oldusers |
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move /home/foo /oldusers |
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mv -r /home/foo /oldusers |
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mv /home/foo /oldusers |
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cp --move /home/foo /oldusers |
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| Question 17: Which statements are true? |
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Only root can use negative nice values |
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A nice value reaches from 0 to 20 |
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Nice-values can be changed with the ps-command |
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A less nice value means higher priority |
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An even nice-value means high, an odd value low priority |
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| Question 18: Which command would change the owner of all files and subdirectories under /home/foo to foobar? |
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chown --recursive foobar /home/foo |
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chmod foobar /home/foo |
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chown -r foobar /home/foo |
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chown -R foobar /home/foo |
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chown foobar /home/foo |
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| Question 19: Which of the following directories may be placed outside the root partition? |
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/lib |
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/home |
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/var |
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/boot |
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/etc |
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| Question 20: How can you describe the function of the following commands? foo | tee bar | foobar |
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The command foo redirects its output to the command tee which writes it into the file bar and sends the same further to the command foobar |
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The command foo redirects its output to the command tee. After that the command bar redirects its output to the command foobar |
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The command foo writes its output to the file tee; the command bar writes its output to the file foobar |
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This isn't a valid commandline |
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The command foobar gets its input from the command bar which gets its input from the command foo |
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| Question 21: The user foo has got a userquota of 20 megabyte in his home directory. Now you want to give him 40 megabyte instead. What is to do? |
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Use the command edquota foo |
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Edit the file /home/quota.user with an editor |
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Use the command repquota foo |
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Edit the entry for /home in /etc/fstab |
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Use the command addquota foo 20M |
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| Question 22: You want to install the RPM package file foobar.rpm. This file is located in /home/bob. Which command would you use to install this file? |
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rpminst /home/bob/foobar.rpm |
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instrpm /home/bob/foobar.rpm |
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rpm -i /home/bob/foobar.rpm |
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install /home/bob/foobar.rpm |
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rpm -e /home/bob/foobar.rpm |
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| Question 23: Which command would you use to check the signature of a rpm packet? |
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rpm --pgpcheck filename |
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rpm --checksig filename |
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rpm -q --checksig filename |
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rpmcheck filename |
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rpm -c filename |
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| Question 24: How would you suspend a running foreground-job? |
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Ctrl-Z |
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Ctrl-X |
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Ctrl-C |
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Ctrl-D |
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Ctrl-S |
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| Question 25: You want to install the tarball foobar.tar.gz. What command would unpack the achive? |
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tar tzvf foobar.tar.gz |
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zcat foobar.tar.gz | tar xf - |
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tar x foobar.tar.gz |
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untar foobar.tar.gz |
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tar xzf foobar.tar.gz |
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| Question 26: Which of the following commands could be used to turn all characters inside a textfile into uppercase without opening the file in an editor? |
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sed |
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vi |
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upcase |
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tr |
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recode |
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| Question 27: Consider a mounted partition /dev/hdc7 is mounted on /mnt. Which command could be used to unmount this filesystem? |
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mount -u /dev/hdc7 |
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umount /mnt |
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unmount /mnt |
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umount /dev/hdc7 |
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unmount /dev/hdc7 |
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| Question 28: Which of the following programs could be used to load necessary modules when the system detects a newly connected USB-device? |
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usb-dyn |
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hotplug |
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usb-plug |
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usbmgr |
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usbmanager |
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| Question 29: You are working with vi, writing a textfile. After leaving insert mode with Esc you want to save and exit. What command is valid? |
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:x |
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:q! |
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:q |
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x |
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:s |
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| Question 30: What is a X-server |
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the program which administrates the graphical IO using the X11 protocol |
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the program which manages the window borders/colors |
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any X11 application |
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a computer which offers X11-applications |
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a computer which offers the ability to run X11-applications |
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| Question 31: Which file would you edit so that the displaymanager ist started automaticly at boottime? |
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/etc/inittab |
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/etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup |
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/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession |
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/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config |
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/etc/X11/XF86Config |
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| Question 32: You started an X-application with the parameter -display foo:0 but you get the message "Can't open display". What is the reason? |
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you must be root to display something on other computer's screen |
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foo is not known, try it with it's IP-address |
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you must run "xhost yourcomputer" on foo before the above command |
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you have to use foo:1 instead of foo:0 |
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you must run the command "xhost foo" before the above command |
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| Question 33: Which of these programs is not a X client? |
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startx |
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xterm |
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xclock |
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xload |
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| Question 34: You need to set the system-wide colors and fonts for the XTerm application. Where is the best place to do this? |
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.profile |
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/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm |
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.Xdefaults |
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.xinitrc |
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| Question 35: The commands mwm,twm, After step and olvwm are: |
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X window managers |
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X servers |
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Named after their principal programmer |
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X clients |
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| Question 36: The XF86Config file contains? |
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Configuration information for the X window manager |
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Configuration information for the X applications |
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Configuration information for the X display manager |
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Configuration information for the X server |
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| Question 37: The entry :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X must be inserted into what file to enable XDM on the console display |
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/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess |
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/etc/inittab |
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/etc/X11/XF86Config |
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/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers |
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| Question 38: You want to start an X session after logging in using the text interface on the console. What commands can you use? |
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xinit |
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xdm |
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startx |
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X |
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| Question 39: When defining the commands in an .xinitrc file, the last command started must be? |
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The window manager in the foreground |
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Any X client in the foreground |
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Any X client in the background |
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The window manager in the background |
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| Question 40: XDM is used to? |
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Install the X software |
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Authenticate users and start an X session |
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Manage the X display and interface with clients |
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Configure the X server |
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| Question 41: What command is not used for configuring the X environment |
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xf86config |
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XF86Setup |
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Xconfigurator |
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XInstall.sh |
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