opensolaris man page for dmesg

dmesg(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 dmesg(1M)

NAME
       dmesg - collect system diagnostic messages to form error log

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/bin/dmesg

       /usr/sbin/dmesg

DESCRIPTION
       dmesg is made obsolete by syslogd(1M) 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.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWesu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       syslogd(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    9 Jul 2003								 dmesg(1M)