Problem pertaining to dmesg

nolinuxnollife · 05-12-2006, 11:51 AM

Hi All,

Recently I found that on my RHEL4 Machine the syslog has stopped.did some googling and as well as linuxquestioning and some experimenting also. A single statement in a post has solved my problem ..to completely switch off the SE Linux feature of RHEL4.

After this I started to have another problem.. dmesg returns firewall logs instead of boot messages i.e the syslog messages...

I am trying from myside.. would be happy someone throws some light..

Thank you.
Mahen.

taxtropel · 05-14-2006, 04:04 AM

dmesg only reports the tail end of the boot message
to view syslog well, then view syslog
use either cat /var/log/syslog
or less /var/log/syslog
or tail -f /var/log/syslog

nolinuxnollife · 05-14-2006, 05:32 AM

You are true but.. typing dmesg ate # prompt doenot return the boot messages..instead returns the current syslog..even after reboot

taxtropel · 05-14-2006, 05:44 AM

look all dmesg does is dump the kernel ring buffer, which is written to /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages if you really need to view your boot messages the best place is to go to /var/log/messages