On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Paul Heinlein <heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: dmesg and messages differences
>
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Cameron Kerr wrote:
>
>> 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 historical content of the dmesg(8) command).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)
>
> See /etc/rc.sysinit for dmesg invocation that writes to
> /var/log/dmesg; the LOGLEVEL shell variable is set in
> /etc/sysconfig/init.
>
> The content of /var/log/messages is controlled via /etc/syslog.conf.
Thanks guys for that concise answer.
I guess I need to read up on the man page for syslogd :)
Keith
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