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 the historical content of the dmesg(8) command).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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Websites: > http://www.karsites.net > http://www.php-debuggers.net > http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk > > All email addresses are challenge-response protected with > TMDA [http://tmda.net] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos