Chapter 8

Question 1

Which of the following process attributes is not inherited to child processes?

Answer 1

shell aliases

Question 2

Shell functions defined in a user’s ~/.bashrc are intended for what?

Answer 2

interactive shells

Question 3

Which file is executed first by a login shell?

Answer 3

/etc/profile

Question 4

Environment variable settings usually go in which files?

Answer 4

/etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile

Question 5

Shell aliases usually go in which files?

Answer 5

/etc/bashrc and ~/.bashrc

Question 6

Shell functions usually go in which files?

Answer 6

/etc/bashrc and ~/.bashrc

Question 7

useradd copies what files into a newly-created home directory?

Answer 7

All files in /etc/skel

Question 8

When RPM packages are installed, they might put shell initialization files where?

Answer 8

In /etc/profile.d