Jason Pyeron wrote: > [root at test-dhcp ~]# tail -f /var/log/dmesg /var/log/secure /var/log/messages > /var/log/faillog > ... note that /var/log/dmesg is just a snapshot of the output of the program dmesg taken after boot time. the dmesg command dumps the current kernel message buffer, but I don't believe it has a live 'follow' mode. that said, most stuff written to the kernel message buffer gets processed by syslog and put in /var/log/messages