sca_sles15 Exam Dumps : SUSE Certified Administrator in Enterprise Linux 15

Log file rotation is the process of compressing or deleting old log files to save disk space and improve performance. The /etc/logrotate.conf file controls the global settings for log file rotation, such as frequency, size limit, compression method, etc. The /etc/logrotate.d/ directory contains configuration files for specific log files that can override the global settings in /etc/logrotate.conf. The /usr/sbin/logrotate program is used to perform log file rotation according to the configuration files. It is usually invoked by a cron job in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate. References:

The term “action” means an action that defines where a log message ends up such as in a regular file or database table when referring to system logging in SUSE Linux Enterprise. An action is part of a rule that specifies how to process a log message based on its properties. An action can be one of the following types: file, pipe, shell, template, discard, stop, call, omusrmsg, ommysql, ompgsql, etc. References:

When using the nice command, -15 is the higher priority than 7. The nice command can be used to run a process with a modified scheduling priority. The priority value ranges from -20 (highest priority) to 19 (lowest priority). The default priority is 0. Only root can assign negative priority values to processes. References: