From: Joe Beanfish on
On 03/10/10 10:17, Ant wrote:
> On 3/9/2010 9:47 AM PT, Tecknode typed:
>
>> Did you use "System" menu, Administration, Log File Viewer?
>>
>> Look for "kern.log"
>
> That's a new one (catted it in shell). What's the difference between
> this and /var/log/messages and dmesg? FYI:
>
> ...
> Mar 10 04:52:55 foobar kernel: [162599.988025] Machine check events logged
> Mar 10 05:10:25 foobar kernel: [163649.988019] Machine check events logged
> ...

See your syslog conf to find out what goes to what files.
/etc/syslog.conf or /etc/rsyslog.conf or ?? depending on the syslog
package being used.