Exam 3
1. What is the difference between a mail transfer agent (MTA) and a mail user agent (MUA)?
2. What is the common GUI subsystem that is "behind" both KDE and GNOME?
3. What is the advantage of using journaling in a (Linux) file system?
4. What file contains a list of partitions that will be mounted at start-up located?
5. What does the sudo command do?
6. What does the command "ls a?" do?
7. What does the command "ls a*" do?
8. What does the command "cd ~" do?
9. What does the command "cd .." do?
10. What does the command "cd ." do?
11. What does the /etc/exports file do?
12. What does the "umask" command do?
13. What does the "man" command do?
14. What command is used to rename a file in Linux?
15. What command is used to perform a verify a partition has no (logical) errors on it?
16. What command can be used to temporarily change the IP adddress of a Linux system?
17. What character separates the various fields in /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd?
18. What are the three types of permissions in Linux?
1 What are the three groups of permissions in Linux?
20. The program cpio can be used to...
21. In terms of disk quotas, what is a "soft limit"?
22. In terms of an operating system, what is an ISO file?
23. In terms of Linux, what is a shell?
24. In terms of Linux (and Unix), what is an inode?
25. Which command can be used to back up a directory in Linux?