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@centos.org From: Paul Heinlein heinlein@madboa.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] 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 the historical content of the dmesg(8) command).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