82 lines
2.7 KiB
Groff
82 lines
2.7 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: dmesg.8,v 1.16 2004/04/30 16:11:03 wiz Exp $
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.\" @(#)dmesg.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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.\"
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.Dd April 30, 2004
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.Dt DMESG 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm dmesg
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.Nd "display the system message buffer"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl M Ar core
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.Op Fl N Ar system
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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displays the contents of the system message buffer.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Fl M
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Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core
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instead of the default ``/dev/mem''.
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.It Fl N
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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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.Dv MSGBUFSIZE
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kernel option.
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Look for
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.Dv 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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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.0 .
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