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 ``/dev/kmem''.
-N Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the
default ``/vmunix''.
SEE ALSOsyslogd(8)HISTORY
The dmesg command appeared in 4.0BSD.
4th Berkeley Distribution June 5, 1993 4th Berkeley Distribution