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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!news
  3. From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
  4. Subject: Re: What's wrong with dmesg?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul21.064459.9336@csus.edu>
  6. Sender: news@csus.edu
  7. Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
  8. Organization: San Francisco State University
  9. References: <1992Jul18.172015.3157@fishbone.uucp>
  10. Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 06:44:59 GMT
  11. Lines: 15
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  13. In article <1992Jul18.172015.3157@fishbone.uucp>
  14.     grace!fishbone!jdyer@moscom.com (John D. Dyer) writes:
  15. >I tried the demsg command today and found that it doesn't work.  At
  16. >    %/usr/etc/dmesg
  17. >I get:
  18. >    Jul 18 13:16
  19. >    Can't get kernel namelist
  20.  
  21. dmesg is looking up the kernel variable _msgbuf--only there isn't
  22. one (there was in 1.0, hmm).  There is a _pmsgbuf, however.
  23.  
  24. Looks like another gratuitous kernel mod that wasn't followed up on.
  25. "Maybe it'll be fixed in 3.0."
  26.  
  27.                     -=EPS=-
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