A system administrator is troubleshooting a service that reads from a named pipe. The service is failing to start because the named pipe does not exist. The administrator needs to create the named pipe with the correct permissions so that the service (running as user 'svc') can read from it. The pipe should be readable and writable by the 'svc' user and the 'staff' group, but not by others. Which command creates the pipe with the correct permissions?

mkfifo -m 666 /tmp/service.pipe && chown svc:staff /tmp/service.pipe

mkfifo /tmp/service.pipe && chmod 660 /tmp/service.pipe

mkfifo -m 600 /tmp/service.pipe && chown svc:staff /tmp/service.pipe

mkfifo -m 660 /tmp/service.pipe && chown svc:staff /tmp/service.pipe

Which of the following is a characteristic of a symbolic link?

It shares the same inode as the target file.

It is indistinguishable from a regular file in an ls -l listing.

It can point to a file or directory on a different filesystem.

It cannot point to a directory.

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A system administrator is troubleshooting a service that reads from a named pipe. The service is failing to start because the named pipe does not exist. The administrator needs to create the named pipe with the correct permissions so that the service (running as user 'svc') can read from it. The pipe should be readable and writable by the 'svc' user and the 'staff' group, but not by others. Which command creates the pipe with the correct permissions?
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2foundation · easy
A user needs to create a new file inside the /data directory. Which permission must the user have on /data?
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In an ls -l listing, which character at the beginning of the permissions string indicates a block device file?
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A directory /project is owned by user 'alice' and group 'devs'. The administrator needs to change the group ownership to 'devops' and ensure that all existing files and subdirectories within /project also have their group changed to 'devops'. Which command accomplishes this?
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Which of the following is a characteristic of a symbolic link?
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A user needs to create a new file inside the /data directory. Which permission must the user have on /data?

In an ls -l listing, which character at the beginning of the permissions string indicates a block device file?

A directory /project is owned by user 'alice' and group 'devs'. The administrator needs to change the group ownership to 'devops' and ensure that all existing files and subdirectories within /project also have their group changed to 'devops'. Which command accomplishes this?

Which of the following is a characteristic of a symbolic link?

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