From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 15 2:27: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C17F37B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (port757.uc1-esp.isdn-lan.cybercity.dk [212.242.98.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0341C43E3B for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g8F9QuBQ079906; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:26:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Sean Hamilton" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dmesg circular buffer In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:24:25 PDT." <000501c25c99$af6b6d40$911de8d8@slugabed.org> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:26:56 +0200 Message-ID: <79904.1032082016@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <000501c25c99$af6b6d40$911de8d8@slugabed.org>, "Sean Hamilton" write s: >Greetings, > >As I understand, "dmesg" prints the tail end of a circular buffer stored >someplace on the root partition. Is it possible to have it read back beyond >the last reboot? Occasionaly I see it do this, though I have no idea why. It's stored in RAM, not on disk. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message