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## View the System Message Log Files

The error logging daemon, `syslogd`, automatically records various system warnings, errors, and faults in message files. These messages can alert you to system problems such as a device that is about to fail.

The `/var/adm` directory contains several message files. The most recent messages are in the /`var/adm/messages` file. After a period of time (usually every week), a new `messages` file is automatically created. The original contents of the `messages` file are rotated to a file named `messages.1`. Over a period of time, the messages are further rotated to `messages.2` and `messages.3`, and then deleted.

1. Log in as superuser.
2. Type:

       # more /var/adm/messages

3. If you want to view all logged messages, type:

       # more /var/adm/messages*

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