A-136Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
NAME
messages - record of recent console messages
SYNOPSIS
/etc/messages
DESCRIPTION
The default behavior of the filer syslogd daemon (see syslogd) is to print all log-
ging messages of priority info or higher to the console, and to the messages file.
Every Saturday at 24:00, /etc/messages is moved to /etc/messages.0, /etc/
messages.0 is moved to /etc/messages.1, and so on. Message files are saved
for a total of six weeks.
FILES
/etc/messages messages file for current week
/etc/messages.[0-5] messages file for previous weeks
SEE ALSO
syslogd, syslog.conf
messages