NAME

dmesg − collect system diagnostic messages to form error log

SYNOPSIS

/usr/etc/dmesg [ − ] [ −s ] [ system ] [ corefile ]

DESCRIPTION

Note: dmesg is obsoleted by syslogd(8) for maintenance of the system error log. 

dmesg 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 dmesg computes (incrementally) the new messages since the last time it was run and places these on the standard output. 

If the ‘−s’ flag is given, then dmesg computes the symbolic names for kernel traceback information printed in the diagnostic messages. 

If corefile is given, system information is sought there, otherwise in /dev/kmem.  The required namelist is taken from /vmunix unless system is specified. 

OPTIONS

FILES

/var/adm/msgbuf scratch file for memory of ‘−’ option

SEE ALSO

syslogd(8)

Solbourne Computer, Inc.  —  26 Dec 1990