On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 06:28:35PM +0000, Keith Roberts wrote: > 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 historical content of the dmesg(8) command). ...specifically, the content just after booting is more or less complete; it's not subsequently updated (as someone else already wrote in). > > 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 :) Specifically, man syslog.conf for that file's syntax; man syslogd talks more about its invocation and signalling. --keith -- kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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