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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:26:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: David K Phinney <dphinney@dowco.com>
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Subject: Re: Listing devices in 2.2.x
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on some systems there is /var/log/dmesg.today

if you had devfs you could look at that..
(or you could just reboot?
but I guess there must be a reason this is not true.)

you could always recompile /sbin/dset to print out ALL the  values,
and not just the ones it touches.

On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, David K Phinney wrote:

> 
> That file has unfortunately been rotated enough times that the boot
> messages have been purged.
> 
> Is there any other way? Is there no tool to extract the info from the
> kernel?
> 
> Please send answers to my email address, and thanks again!
> 
> 
> --dave
> David K. Phinney
> Systems Administrator                                   (604) 933-2821
> dowco.com internet                                      dave@dowco.com
> 
> > look in /var/log/messages
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, David K Phinney wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > How does one go about listing configured devices in FreeBSD 2.2, it
> > > seems 2.1's `lsdev' command is no longer supported. (It hasn't been
> > > updated by CVSup in a while, and when I run it I get an error about
> > > hw.devconf.number not existing.) I can't use `dmesg' to see what it
> > > said at boot-up, because those messages have long since been pushed
> > > out of the buffer.
>