What do you identify as the cause of the problem?

You are mentoring a colleague who recently added a local7.notice entry to the /etc/syslog.conf
file. After restarting the logging service, your colleague notices that no new records are being
logged and asks for your help. Included in the file are these entries: … (19)*.alert root
(20)*.emerg* (21)local7.notice /var/log/Appx.log … While running the syslogd process in debug
mode, you notice the following: You examine the /var/adm/messages file: Jan 6 00:23:10
so111-server syslogd: line 21: unknown priority name “notice ” What do you identify as the cause
of the problem?

You are mentoring a colleague who recently added a local7.notice entry to the /etc/syslog.conf
file. After restarting the logging service, your colleague notices that no new records are being
logged and asks for your help. Included in the file are these entries: … (19)*.alert root
(20)*.emerg* (21)local7.notice /var/log/Appx.log … While running the syslogd process in debug
mode, you notice the following: You examine the /var/adm/messages file: Jan 6 00:23:10
so111-server syslogd: line 21: unknown priority name “notice ” What do you identify as the cause
of the problem?

A.
The application that logs to /var/log/Appx.log does not support the notice priority.

B.
There is an extra space in line 21 in the /etc/syslog.comf file.

C.
There is a control or nonprintable character at the end of line 21 in the /etc/syslog.conf file.

D.
The facility local7 does not support the notice priority.



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