[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 historical content of the dmesg(8) command).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.

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