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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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dmesg Collect System Diagnostic Messages to Form Error Log

Synopsis

/usr/bin/dmesg [-]
/usr/sbin/dmesg [-]

Description

Note

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. The messages are those printed or logged by the system when errors occur. If you specify the - option, then dmesg computes (incrementally) the new messages since the last time it was run and places these on the standard output.

Files

/var/adm/msgbuf
 Scratch file for memory of - option.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes.

Attribute Type Attribute Value
Availability SUNWesu (32-bit)
 SUNWesxu ...
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