Chapter 3

Question 1

Which of the following is not a standard syslog facility?

Answer 1

games

Question 2

Which of the following syslog priorities ranks lowest in terms of significance?

Answer 2

info

Question 3

Which of the following syslog facilities is generally used for authentication failures?

Answer 3

authpriv

Question 4

All log files in Red Hat Enterprise Linux are found under what directory?

Answer 4

/var/log/

Question 5

Which of the following files in considered the default Red Hat Enterprise Linux log file?

Answer 5

None of the above

Question 6

Use the following rsyslog.conf configuration file to answer the next 4 questions about the rsyslogd daemon.

kern. * root
* .info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages
authpriv. * secure
mail. * @logger.example.com
cron. * /var/log/cron
* .emerg *

Answer 6

-

Question 7

What will happen to a message logged using the kern facility and notice priority?

Answer 7

The message will be displayed on the root user’s console

The message will be appended to /var/log/messages

Question 8

What will happen to a message logged using the authpriv facility and info priority?

Answer 8

The message will be displayed on the console of the user named secure

Question 9

What will happen to a message logged using the auth facility and emerg priority?

Answer 9

The message will be displayed on every user’s console

Question 10

What will happen to a message logged using the mail facility and err priority?

Answer 10

The message will be forwarded to the machine logger.example.com

Question 11

The imklog module spends its life monitoring what file?

Answer 11

/proc/kmsg