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Synopsis

Availability

SUNWesu

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 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

/var/adm/msgbuf

scratch file for memory of ‘-’ option

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