dmesg is everything sent from the kernel for logging (ie. the historical content of the dmesg(8) command).
messages is basically a syslog fall-through (a bit like /var/log/syslog)
On 21/01/2011, at 7:02 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I just wondered what's the difference between
> /var/log/dmesg, and /var/log/messages?
>
> Why do we have 2 log files that are similar?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Keith Roberts
>
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