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Linux & Shell interview questions
Permissions, processes, pipes and the commands you are expected to know cold.
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- What is the difference between systemctl start and systemctl enable?
start runs a service right now, while enable makes it start automatically at boot. They are independent: a service can be running but disabled, or enabled but stopped. systemctl enable --now does both in one command.
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