DMESG

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BSD 4  

NAME

dmesg - display the system message buffer  

SYNOPSIS

dmesg [-M core ] [-N system ]  

DESCRIPTION

Dmesg displays the contents of the system message buffer.

The options are as follows:

-M
Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core instead of the default ``/dev/kmem''.
-N
Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default ``/vmunix''.

 

SEE ALSO

syslogd(8)  

HISTORY

The dmesg command appeared in BSD 4.0


 

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