DMESG(8) System Manager's Manual DMESG(8)
NAME
dmesg - collect system diagnostic messages to form error log
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/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/msgbuf scratch file for memory of - option
SEE ALSO
syslogd(8)
4th Berkeley Distribution November 17, 1996 DMESG(8)
