What syslog.conf facility represents miscellaneous daemons?
A.
misc
B.
proc
C.
kern
D.
daemon
Explanation:
The facility field can contain only 16 codes:
kern Messages generated by the kernel.
user Messages generated by user processes.
mail The mail system.
daemon System daemons, such as the in.ftpd and the telnetd daemons.
auth The authorization system, including the login and su commands.
syslog Messages generated internally by the syslogd daemon.
lpr The line printer spooling system, such as the lpr and lpc commands.
news Files reserved for the USENET network news system.
uucp (obsolete) The UNIX-to-UNIX copy (UUCP) system does not use the syslog function.
cron The cron and at facilities, including crontab, at, and cron.
local0-7 Eight user-defined codes.
The level selector specifies the severity or importance of the message.
Each level includes all the levels above (of a higher severity). To remember the sequence for the certification exam you can use an appropriately constructed phase like "Every alerted cardriver escapes warning notice"
emerg 0 Panic conditions that are normally broadcast to all users
alert 1 Conditions that should be corrected immediately, such as a corrupted system database. Only sysadmin of a particular server needs to be informed by mail or paged.
crit 2 Warnings about critical conditions, such as hard device errors.
err 3 Errors other than hard device errors
warning 4 Warning messages, that generally does not interfere with normal operation.
notice 5 Non-error conditions that might require special handling
info 6 Purely informational messages (usually does not require any handling)
debug 7 Messages that are normally used only when debugging a program
none 8 Messages are not sent from the indicated facility to the selected file