DMESG(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures DMESG(8)

NAME

dmesg - collect system diagnostic messages to form error log

SYNOPSIS

/usr/bin/dmesg


/usr/sbin/dmesg

DESCRIPTION

dmesg is made obsolete 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.

SEE ALSO

attributes(7), syslogd(8)

July 9, 2003 DMESG(8)