From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 12:41:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16713 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:41:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail2.svr.freeserve.net (mail2.svr.freeserve.net [195.92.193.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16697 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:41:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Received: from modem-101.aluminum.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.6.101] helo=ukonline.co.uk) by mail2.svr.freeserve.net with esmtp (Exim 2.05iplimit-2 #4) id 0zWQbf-0001xe-00; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 20:41:11 +0100 Message-ID: <362F8A25.25C44B1C@ukonline.co.uk> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 20:40:21 +0100 From: Christopher Raven Organization: CIAN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Sconiers CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there a log file References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Sconiers wrote: > > > > Is there a log file that logs what the system probes during bootup. I'm > having a problem with a device and need to look out output. > > THANKS > > JOHN Look at dmesg #dmesg It lives in /var/log/dmesg.today (& dmesg.yesterday ~ I think) -- [ Christopher Raven [ E-mail: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk & ICQ: 2254369 [ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ "The Power To Serve" [ http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message