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Quiz#2:

NOTE: You should take Quiz#2 ONLY after completing some basic tutorials and after having installed FreeBSD. This is an open book test, you can use any material you like, please be sincere about answering the questions, these are interview type questions and it is also a recap of the training till this point. Please send me the completed quiz#2 with your responses.

1)Did you have to select dhcp during network installation? Why/why not?

2)During package selection step, what option did you select?

3)What is your login shell?

4)How many disks does your system have?

5)How much space did you allocate for the installation?

6)How will you see which processes are on the system?

7)What is HUP?

8)What is inetd?

9)Name some common shell environment variables?

10)How will you modify variables in csh?

11)In tcsh?

12)What is the size of /var

13)Is this in mega bytes or in bits or in mega bits or in gigs?

14)What is meant by partitioning?

15)What is the use of partitioning?

16)What is swap?

17)How big should it usually be?

18)What is the name of the startup configuration file?

19)What is the name of the kernel build directory?

20)What is meant by kernel customization?

21)What is the name of the kernel configuration file?

22)Read about the variable "maxusers" in the above file and type that here (please do not copy and paste this):

23)Read about the variable "pty" in the kernel configuration file and type that in your own words (please do not copy and paste this):

24)Read Copy and paste the section for "PCI Ethernet NICs. device " from the config file:

25)Read Copy and paste the section for "PROCFS" from the config file:

26)Read Copy and paste the section for "INET" from the config file:

27)Read Copy and paste the section for "INET6" from the config file:

28)What is the the configuration file for the syslogd(8) program?

29)Name some network related config files:

30)How are services started, describe in your own words, please give location of the relevant directory?

31)What are the steps to add swap to the system?

32)What is "init"?

33)What is the configuration file it reads?

34)What is the difference between the commands "reboot" "shutdown" and "halt":

Please let me know if you have any questions/comments/problems with quiz#2.