DMESG(8) BSD System Manager's Manual DMESG(8)NAMEdmesg - display the system message buffer
SYNOPSISdmesg [-M core] [-N system]
DESCRIPTION
Dmesg displays the contents of the system message buffer.
The options are as follows:
-M Extract values associated with the name list from the specified
core instead of the default, as defined by _PATH_MEM in <paths.h>
(``/dev/mem'').
-N Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the
default, as defined by _PATH_KERNEL in <paths.h> (``/bsd'').
SEE ALSOsyslogd(8)HISTORY
The dmesg command appeared in 4.0BSD.
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