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 historical content of the dmesg(8) command).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. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/