From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 30 0: 0:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D30F37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 00:00:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A10C43E4A for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 00:00:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8U70JCo061725 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 00:00:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8U70JLH061719; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 00:00:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 00:00:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200209300700.g8U70JLH061719@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: bin/43434: New option to 'dmesg' which allow to display or not old boot messages Reply-To: Ruslan Ermilov Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/43434; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Brooks Davis Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/43434: New option to 'dmesg' which allow to display or not old boot messages Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:53:43 +0300 On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 12:00:20PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > The following reply was made to PR bin/43434; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Brooks Davis > To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_Nephtali?= > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: bin/43434: New option to 'dmesg' which allow to display or not old boot messages > Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:57:28 -0700 > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:36:52PM +0200, Aurélien Nephtali wrote: > > > > Some times it could be usefull to display only the last boot > > message (ie: when grep'ing). The attached patch modifies > > sys/kern/subr_prf.c and dmesg.c (and the also the manual). It > > adds a tag (---<<>>---) at the begining of each boot > > message (the tag macro is stored in sys/sys/msgbuf.h and could > > also be stored in /usr/include/msgbuf.h) dmesg.c is modified > > and has a new option: -o, which when it is specified, displays > > the full content of the message buffer, otherwise only the last > > message is displayed). This patch has been tested (by me :p) > > without any troubles on -CURRENT. > > This was my propsed solution to this annoyance so I agree with it. :) I > haven't had time to test and fully review this change so I asked > Aurélien to put it in a PR in hopes that someone else will have to time > to commit it or something similar. > What's wrong with ``dmesg | tail -1''? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message