On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Paul Heinlein wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Paul Heinlein <heinlein at 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 historical content of the dmesg(8) command). >> >> 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. Thanks guys for that concise answer. I guess I need to read up on the man page for syslogd :) Keith ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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] -----------------------------------------------------------------