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GSNA · Question #36
You work as the Network Administrator for Perfect Solutions Inc. The company has a Linux- based network. You are a root user on the Red Hat operating system. You want to keep an eye on the system log
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Linux/Unix System Auditing
Question
You work as the Network Administrator for Perfect Solutions Inc. The company has a Linux- based network. You are a root user on the Red Hat operating system. You want to keep an eye on the system log file /var/adm/messages. Which of the following commands should you use to read the file in real time?
Options
- Atail -n 3 /var/adm/messages
- Btail -f /var/adm/messages
- Ccat /var/adm/messages
- Dtail /var/adm/messages
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#tail -f#real-time log monitoring#Linux commands#system logs