Rotating weekly and retaining four generations | LinuC Level 1 102 Exam original practice question

1.09.2Basic

Rotate /var/log/app.log weekly and retain four old generations.

Which directives are appropriate?

Hint 1: Focus on journal storage

Separate persistent storage, runtime-only storage, automatic selection, and disabled storage behavior.

Hint 2: Key terms

Review the short definitions of journal storage, persistence, rotation, and runtime behavior involved.

weekly: The logrotate interval for a weekly rotation.
daily: The logrotate interval for a daily rotation.
monthly: The logrotate interval for a monthly rotation.
rotate: The logrotate directive that sets how many old generations are kept.
Log generation: A generation-numbered log file created by rotation.

Detailed explanation

Incorrectdaily / rotate 4

Incorrect. It rotates daily rather than weekly.

Correctweekly / rotate 4

Correct. It requests weekly rotation and four generations.

Incorrectweekly / rotate weekly

Incorrect. rotate requires an integer count.

Incorrectmonthly / rotate 4

Incorrect. monthly uses a monthly interval.

An example you can run in a temporary verification environment.

printf '%s
' weekly 'rotate 4'

weeklyとrotate 4

Foundation review

Metadata that classifies a message source and its severity.

Whether systemd journal data survives a reboot and where it is stored.

A process that retains, renames, compresses, or removes log generations.

Question IDKL-102-1103

Environmentprintf / ログ変更なし

Last technical review2026-08-13

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