NAME

dmesg − collect system diagnostic messages to form error log

SYNOPSIS

/etc/dmesg [ − ]

DESCRIPTION

N.B.: 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. 

FILES

/usr/adm/msgbufscratch file for memory of − option

SEE ALSO

syslogd(8)

4th Berkeley Distribution  —  May 19, 1986