messages

En este archivo de texto se almacenan datos `informativos' de ciertos programas, mensajes de baja o media prioridad destinados más a informar que a avisar de sucesos importantes, como información relativa al arranque de la máquina; no obstante, como sucedía con el fichero syslog, en función de /etc/syslog.conf podremos guardar todo tipo de datos. Para visualizar su contenido es suficiente una orden como cat o similares:

anita:/# head -70 /var/adm/messages
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic 
[UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: Copyright (c) 1983-1998, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: mem = 65152K (0x3fa0000)
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: avail mem = 51167232
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: root nexus = i86pc
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: isa0 at root
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: pci0 at root: space 0 offset 0
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:     IDE device at targ 0, lun 0 lastlun 0x0
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:     model WDC WD84AA, stat 50, err 0
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:       cfg 0x427a, cyl 16383, hd 16, sec/trk 63
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:       mult1 0x8010, mult2 0x110, dwcap 0x0, 
cap 0x2f00
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:       piomode 0x280, dmamode 0x0, advpiomode 
0x3
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:       minpio 120, minpioflow 120
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:       valid 0x7, dwdma 0x7, majver 0x1e
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: ata_set_feature: (0x66,0x0) failed
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:     ATAPI device at targ 1, lun 0 lastlun 0x0
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:     model CD-ROM 50X, stat 50, err 0
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:       cfg 0x85a0, cyl 0, hd 0, sec/trk 0
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:       mult1 0x0, mult2 0x0, dwcap 0x0, cap 0xf00
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:       piomode 0x400, dmamode 0x200, advpiomode 
0x3
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:       minpio 227, minpioflow 120
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix:       valid 0x6, dwdma 0x107, majver 0x0
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: PCI-device: ata@0, ata0
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: ata0 is /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ata@0
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: Disk0:  <Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' Product 'WDC WD84AA '>
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: cmdk0 at ata0 target 0 lun 0
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: cmdk0 is /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ata@0/cmdk@0,0
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: root on /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0:a 
fstype ufs
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: ISA-device: asy0
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: asy0 is /isa/asy@1,3f8
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: ISA-device: asy1
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: asy1 is /isa/asy@1,2f8
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: ISA-device: asy2
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: asy2 is /isa/pnpSUP,1670@pnpSUP,1670,7ec2
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: Number of console virtual screens = 13
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: cpu 0 initialization complete - online
Jan 24 18:09:54 anita unix: dump on /dev/dsk/c0d0s1 size 86 MB
Jan 24 18:09:55 anita unix: pseudo-device: pm0
Jan 24 18:09:55 anita unix: pm0 is /pseudo/pm@0
Jan 24 18:09:56 anita unix: pseudo-device: vol0
Jan 24 18:09:56 anita unix: vol0 is /pseudo/vol@0
Jan 24 18:09:57 anita icmpinfo: started, PID=213.
Jan 24 18:09:57 anita unix: sd1 at ata0:
Jan 24 18:09:57 anita unix:  target 1 lun 0
Jan 24 18:09:57 anita unix: sd1 is /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ata@0/sd@1,0
Jan 24 18:10:03 anita icmpinfo: ICMP_Dest_Unreachable[Port] < 127.0.0.1 
[localhost] > 127.0.0.1 [localhost] sp=1664 dp=3200 seq=0x002e0000 sz=74(+20)
Jan 24 18:10:03 anita unix: ISA-device: fdc0
Jan 24 18:10:03 anita unix: fd0 at fdc0
Jan 24 18:10:03 anita unix: fd0 is /isa/fdc@1,3f0/fd@0,0
Jan 24 18:10:04 anita icmpinfo: ICMP_Dest_Unreachable[Port] < 127.0.0.1 
[localhost] > 127.0.0.1 [localhost] sp=2944 dp=161 seq=0x00420000 sz=92(+20)
Jan 24 18:10:05 anita unix: ISA-device: asy0
Jan 24 18:10:05 anita unix: asy0 is /isa/asy@1,3f8
Jan 24 18:10:05 anita unix: ISA-device: asy1
Jan 24 18:10:05 anita unix: asy1 is /isa/asy@1,2f8
Jan 24 18:10:05 anita unix: ISA-device: asy2
Jan 24 18:10:05 anita unix: asy2 is /isa/pnpSUP,1670@pnpSUP,1670,7ec2
an 24 18:10:08 anita icmpinfo: ICMP_Dest_Unreachable[Port] < 127.0.0.1 
[localhost] > 127.0.0.1 [localhost] sp=32780 dp=162 seq=0x00370000 sz=83(+20)
Jan 24 18:10:35 anita unix: pseudo-device: xsvc0
Jan 24 18:10:35 anita unix: xsvc0 is /pseudo/xsvc@0
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