DMESG(8,C)                  AIX Commands Reference                   DMESG(8,C)



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dmesg



PURPOSE

Collects system diagnostic messages to form an error log.

SYNTAX


         +-----+
dmesg ---|     |---|
         +- - -+


DESCRIPTION

The dmesg command looks in a system buffer for recently printed diagnostic
messages and prints them on the standard output.  The messages are those
printed or logged by the system when errors occur.  If the - flag is given,
then the dmesg command computes (incrementally) the new messages since the last
time it was run and places these on the standard output.

FILES

/usr/adm/msgbuf     Scratch file for memory of - option.
/dev/osm            Used to access the kernel's diagnostic message buffer.

RELATED INFORMATION

See the following command:  "syslogd."






















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