Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 16:16:41 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il> To: Lee Ann Goldstein <lgoldste@leeann.snedmail.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new file for the base system? Message-ID: <970755401.39dc8d4942605@webmail.harmonic.co.il> In-Reply-To: <200010031758.KAA18121@leeann.snedmail.com> References: <200010031758.KAA18121@leeann.snedmail.com>
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Quoting Lee Ann Goldstein <lgoldste@leeann.snedmail.com>: > > --Your message was: (from Roman Shterenzon) > > > > 1) Better use /var/run/dmesg.boot since message buffer may get filled > with > > other stuff. > > Unless something's changed in 4.1.1-S or 5.0-C, that's not really a > problem. dmesg does not take its input from /var/log/messages. This > is not necessarily true about dmesg in other *NIXes. For my best knowledge, in FreeBSD and alike unixes dmesg is kernel message buffer. It may get filled with, say, log_in_vain or other kernel messages. Better use /var/run/dmesg.boot which will not get overwritten after boot. Solaris 2.7 has very weird dmesg which seems to work with log files ... > > 2) Since perl is a part of a system now, perhaps it'll be prettier to > use > > perl for that task. > > *shrug* I speak awk better than I speak perl. Like any other even > mildly interesting problem, there are at least half a dozen ways > to solve this. I could write such a beast if you sent me the dmesgs you've got in hand. --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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