Exam LX0-104 topic 4 question 17 discussion

A. *.* /dev/tty12 is the correct entry that can be added to the syslog.conf file to have all syslog messages generated by a system displayed on console 12. The syslog.conf file is used to configure the syslog service on a UNIX-like system, and it determines where syslog messages are sent and how they are processed. Each line in the syslog.conf file represents a rule that maps a specific syslog facility and priority to a destination. The general format of a rule is: <facility>.<priority> <destination> where <facility> is the name of the syslog facility (such as auth, mail, or daemon), <priority> is the severity level of the message (such as err, warning, or info), and <destination> is the target for the messages (such as a file, a remote host, or a console). In the case of console 12, the correct entry would be *.* /dev/tty12, which tells syslog to send all messages of all facilities and all priorities to the console.