In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sebastian Canagaratna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi: I was under the impression that the command dmesg >just typed out the contents of /var/log/kern.log. This >does not seem to be true. What is the file which dmesg >is displaying?
I believe the kernel keeps a circular message buffer, and dmesg prints out that. Some of the messages that go to the ring buffer also go to /var/log/kern.log of course, so there is some overlap. However, istr that in the default syslog setup, debug messages aren't logged so you will see extra ones from dmesg. SRH -- Steve Haslam Validation Engineer, ARM Limited, Cambridge, England almost called it today, turned to face the void along with the suffering and the question- "Why am I?" [queensrÿche]
