man pages section 1M: System Administration Commands

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

dmesg(1M)

Name

dmesg - collect system diagnostic messages to form error log

Synopsis

/usr/bin/dmesg 
/usr/sbin/dmesg 

Description

dmesg is made obsolete by syslogd(1M) 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.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability
system/core-os

See also

syslogd(1M), attributes(5)