You have set up the task.max-lwps resource control on your Solaris 11 system. Which option describes how to configure the system so that syslogd notifies you when the resources control threshold…

Question

Options

• AUse the rctladm command to enable the global action on the task.max-lwpa resource control.
• BModify the /etc/syslog.conf file to activate system logging of all violations of task.max-lwps and then
• CActivate system logging of all violations of task.max-lwpp in the /etc/rctldm.conf file and then execute
• DUse the prct1 command to set the logging of all resource control violations at the time the task.max-lwps
• EUse the setrct1 command to set the logging of all resource control violations for the task.max-lwps

• A
  79% (19)
• B
  13% (3)
• C
  4% (1)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

Option A is correct because rctladm is the dedicated Solaris command for managing global actions on resource controls system-wide. Running rctladm -e syslog task.max-lwps enables the syslog global action, which causes the kernel to send a message to syslogd whenever a process exceeds the task.max-lwps threshold - exactly what the question asks for.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B is wrong because /etc/syslog.conf controls how syslogd routes and filters messages it already receives - it cannot instruct the kernel to generate resource control violation events in the first place.
• C is wrong because /etc/rctldm.conf does not exist as a standard Solaris configuration file; the real command is rctladm, not rctldm, making this a misspelling trap.
• D is wrong because prctl sets resource control values (limits) on specific processes, tasks, or projects - it does not configure global logging actions.
• E is wrong because setrctl is a low-level system call interface for setting per-process resource control values, not a tool for enabling system-wide logging behavior.

Memory tip: Think of rctladm as the administrator of resource controls - just like svcadm administers services globally, rctladm administers resource controls globally. Any time the question says "system-wide" or "notify syslog," reach for rctladm.

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