/var/adm/messages

[navin]

Hi,
Does /var/adm/messages filled by running dmesg.what for the files messages.0,messages.1
Please educate.
thanks

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Typically '/var/adm/messages' is derived from running 'dmesg'. The file will grow infinitely unless you trim it, null it, or stop writing to it. Have a look at the 'dmesg' man pages for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ricky B. Nino]

Hi,

You are right! /var/adm/messages were filled by dmesg command.

I guess messages.0, messages.n are just user files.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Ricky,

/var/adm/messages is not created on installation or by default. It's created when you run dmesg as follows:

dmesg > /var/adm/messages
or
dmesg >> /var/adm/messages

The .0 & .1 files were created either by a log rolling script or by specifying /var/adm/messages.0 in that command.
I'd check root's cron to see if you have an entry creating these files.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Navin,

Sorry for the wrong name...mixed up questions there.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Manju Kampli]

the /var/adm/messages files are created by crontab job "dmesg" .. There could be some other jobs also running in the crontab (OR run manually) which could be moving these files to limit the size of /var/adm/messages (and possibly compressing them) .. you could see these using crontab -l in the root login.

Hope this helps
Manju