man pages section 8: System Administration Commands

dmesg(8)

Name

dmesg - collect system diagnostic messages to form error log

Synopsis

/usr/bin/dmesg 

/usr/sbin/dmesg 

Description

dmesg displays the last 200 syslog entries from /var/adm/messages and any rotated copies of it, in chronological order.

Attributes

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Availability system/core-os

See Also

syslogd(8), rsyslogd(8), logadm(8)