Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man dmesg

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 diagnos-
     tic messages and prints them on the standard output.

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



     ________________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |         ATTRIBUTE VALUE         |
    |_____________________________|_________________________________|
    | Availability                | system/extended-system-utilities|
    |_____________________________|_________________________________|


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






















SunOS 5.11           Last change: 9 Jul 2003                    1