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System Administration Guide

How to View System Messages

Display recent messages generated by a system crash or reboot by using the dmesg command. 


$ dmesg

Or use the more command to display one screen of messages at a time. 


$ more /var/adm/messages

For more information, refer to dmesg(1M).

Example--Viewing System Messages

The following example shows output from the dmesg command. 


$ dmesg
Nov 12 16:53
SunOS Release 5.6 Version A [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
copyright (c) 1983-1997, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
DEBUG enabled
WARNING: cannot load psm xpcimach
mem = 32376K (0x1f9e000)
avail mem = 25247744
root nexus = i86pc
Unable to install/attach drive `isa'
eisa0 at root
NOTICE: eisa: DMA buffer-chaining not enabled
NOTICE: IN i8042_acquire
NOTICE: out i8042_acquire
NOTICE: IN i8042_release
NOTICE: about to enable keyboard
NOTICE: out i8042_release
          .
          .
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