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Bug #1772

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dmesg(1)

Added by robin.carey1 over 14 years ago. Updated over 14 years ago.

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Description

dmesg(1) on OpenBSD (and I imagine on most other operating systems) shows
the boot console messages, including
a list of the (probed) hardware, CPU clock speed etc.

But on leaf.dragonflybsd.org the dmesg(1) output is not the same. It seems
to be inconsistent and seems to
be a garbled version of /var/log/messages.

I think this is wrong. DragonFlyBSD dmesg(1) should output the same as other
operating systems, in
particular the probed hardware list which you get on the console when the
computer boots.


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unnamed (697 Bytes) unnamed robin.carey1, 05/26/2010 06:03 AM
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Updated by thomas.nikolajsen over 14 years ago

Hi Robin,

Try /var/run/dmesg.boot;
this is what you would like;
dmesg(1) output is in memory tail of buffer.

- thomas

man page: dmesg.1
(http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=dmesg&section=ANY):
..
The dmesg utility displays the contents of the system message buffer.
..

-thomas
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