How to View System Messages (System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration)

System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

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, see dmesg(1M).

Example—Viewing System Messages

The following example shows output from the dmesg command.

$ dmesg
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] SunOS Release 5.9 ...
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug genunix: [ID 913631 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2002 ...
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug genunix: [ID 678236 kern.info] Ethernet address ...
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug unix: [ID 389951 kern.info] mem = 131072K (0x8000000)
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug unix: [ID 930857 kern.info] avail mem = 121888768
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug rootnex: [ID 466748 kern.info] root nexus = Sun Ultra 5/
10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 333MHz)
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] pcipsy0 at root: UPA 0x1f0x0
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pcipsy0 is /pci@1f,0
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug pcipsy: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: pci@1,1, simba0
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] simba0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug pcipsy: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: pci@1, simba1
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] simba1 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1
Jan  3 08:44:57 starbug simba: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: ide@3, uata0
Jan  3 08:44:57 starbug genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] uata0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,
1/ide@3
Jan  3 08:44:57 starbug uata: [ID 114370 kern.info] dad0 at pci1095,6460
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