From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 2:44:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spice.eahd.or.ug (spice.eahd.or.ug [216.250.215.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC9537B40A for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 02:44:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@eahd.or.ug) Received: by spice.eahd.or.ug (Postfix at spice.eahd.or.ug, from userid 542) id E2788755D9; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:58:07 +0300 (EAT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spice.eahd.or.ug (Postfix at spice.eahd.or.ug) with ESMTP id E188475556; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:58:07 +0300 (EAT) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:58:07 +0300 (EAT) From: Patrick To: Peter Salvage Cc: Subject: Re: dmesg question In-Reply-To: <004101c0f3eb$a3d233a0$0200a8c0@ait.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Peter Salvage wrote: > Hi all > > I've been asked by someone to give them the output of dmesg showing the > machine's hardware info. The man page reveals the following: > > NAME > dmesg - display the system message buffer > > SYNOPSIS ^^^^^^^^^ This section talks about how you should use the command... > dmesg [-a] [-M core] [-N system] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ these are optional fields.... so.... type: dmesg > filename this will save the output of dmesg in a file.... Then ... mail the file . HTH Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message