what file are console messages in?

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

>
> I haven't worked it all out yet (no time) but I believe some log  
> files (system, console) have been replace with a database (but  
> sometimes there are files too, so I am confused, unless they are  
> duplicating i.e. log to file and database).

Well at least system.log is still around. daily script does not do the  
rotation, rather launchd is responsible for calling newsyslog which  
then checks newsyslog.conf which sets time or size limits for various  
logs. But I don't see console in there at all. Using easy find to  
search the whole disk, console.log doesn't come up.

So I wonder if console is extracting messages from various logs.  
Anyway, it's not a huge problem, but some applications, in particular  
betas, dump a huge amount of crud into console, and i'd like to rotate  
it daily rather than with each reboot. Webkit is spewing practically  
every website, flash ad, and javascript it encounters into system.log  
only on 10.4.11, but on 10.5.2 it's appearing in both system.log and  
console message. Weird.

Chris Murphy