NAME

dmesg − collect system diagnostic messages to form error log

SYNOPSIS

/usr/etc/dmesg [ − ]

DESCRIPTION

Note: dmesg is obsoleted 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.  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

SEE ALSO

syslogd(8)

Sun Release 4.0  —  Last change: 9 September 1987