Talk a little about the system message buffer and cross-reference
MSGBUFSIZE in options(4).
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.\" $NetBSD: dmesg.8,v 1.14 2003/08/07 10:04:13 agc Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: dmesg.8,v 1.15 2004/04/30 13:34:48 briggs Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default
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``/netbsd''.
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.El
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.Pp
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The system message buffer is a circular buffer of a fixed size.
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If the buffer has been filled, the first line of the
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.Nm
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output may not be complete.
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The size of the message buffer is configurable at compile-time on
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most systems with the
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.Em MSGBUFSIZE
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kernel option.
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Look for
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.Em MSGBUFSIZE
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in
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.Xr options 4
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for details.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /var/run/dmesg.boot -compact
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.It Pa /var/run/dmesg.boot
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copy of dmesg at the time of last boot.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr options 4
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.Xr syslogd 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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