Troubleshooting System Administration Issues in Oracle^® Solaris 11.3

Viewing System Messages and Logging

To display recent messages generated by a system crash or reboot, use the dmesg command.

$ dmesg

For large message logs, use the more command to display only one screen of messages at a time.

$ more /var/adm/messages

Example 6  Viewing System Messages

The following example shows output from the dmesg command on an Oracle Solaris 11 system.

$ dmesg
Mon Sep 13 14:33:04 MDT 2010
Sep 13 11:06:16 sr1-ubrm-41 svc.startd[7]: [ID 122153 daemon.warning] ...
Sep 13 11:12:55 sr1-ubrm-41 last message repeated 398 times
Sep 13 11:12:56 sr1-ubrm-41 svc.startd[7]: [ID 122153 daemon.warning] ...
Sep 13 11:15:16 sr1-ubrm-41 last message repeated 139 times
Sep 13 11:15:16 sr1-ubrm-41 xscreensaver[25520]:  ,,,
Sep 13 11:15:16 sr1-ubrm-41 xscreensaver[25520]: ...
Sep 13 11:15:17 sr1-ubrm-41 svc.startd[7]: [ID 122153 daemon.warning]...
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For more information, see the dmesg(1M) man page.