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Date:      Tue, 24 Jun 1997 06:17:08 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        lars@fredriks-1.pr.mcs.net (Lars Fredriksen)
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upping the dmesg buffer
Message-ID:  <199706240617.GAA27564@veda.is>
In-Reply-To: <199706240358.WAA03879@fredriks-1.pr.mcs.net> from Lars Fredriksen at "Jun 23, 97 10:58:25 pm"

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> > You lose it all anyway after a certain amount of system errors have occurred.
> > Then the only recourse is scanning old logfiles for the boot messages, if
> > those logs have not also been rotated out of existence by then.
> > 
> > dmesg is a convenience but will never cover all needs.
> 
> No but it is a handy debugging tool (and its output is saved in /var/log/dmesg..)
> So I think it is a worthwhile investment to make it work.
> 
> Lars

I agree with you.

Yes, /var/run/dmesg.boot was a great idea, and definitely even more reason
for this not to overflow the buffer.

--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>



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