Return to dmesg.8 CVS log

Up to [CSRG BSD Unix] / 43BSDReno / sbin / dmesg

Annotation of 43BSDReno/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.8, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)dmesg.8     6.3 (Berkeley) 6/24/90
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH DMESG 8 "June 24, 1990"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: dmesg \- collect system diagnostic messages to form error log
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B dmesg
        !            13: [ \- ]
        !            14: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            15: .B N.B.:
        !            16: .I Dmesg
        !            17: is obsoleted by
        !            18: .IR syslogd (8)
        !            19: for maintenance of the system error log.
        !            20: .PP
        !            21: .I Dmesg
        !            22: looks in a system buffer for recently printed diagnostic messages
        !            23: and prints them on the standard output.
        !            24: The messages are those printed or logged
        !            25: by the system when errors occur.
        !            26: If the
        !            27: .B \-
        !            28: flag is given, then
        !            29: .I dmesg
        !            30: computes (incrementally) the new messages since the last time it
        !            31: was run and places these on the standard output.
        !            32: .SH FILES
        !            33: .ta 2i
        !            34: /var/log/msgbuf        scratch file for memory of \- option
        !            35: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            36: syslogd(8)

This archive runs on limited infrastructure. Preserving old code on modern bandwidth. Automated agents are requested to crawl responsibly.