From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 7 10:41:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E2FA37B40A for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA71067; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:53:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:53:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Les Biffle Cc: "Koster K.J." , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dmesg behaviour In-Reply-To: <200108071731.KAA91767@safety.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 sorry if that came across a bit rough... I just know that I LOVE that feature. (you don't get it on machines that clear ram between reboots) On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Les Biffle wrote: > > this is a wonderful feature that has saved my butt many times > > (working in the kernel it's REALLY nice to have > > the last panic message in the dmesg buffer.) > > learn to love it.. :-) > > I can see the benefits. I will re-write the programs and scripts that > eat the dmesg output to look for the last boot, but I'm concerned that > the behavior is different on different platforms. I really hate mysterious > platform differences. > > Thanks, > > -Les > > -- > Les Biffle Community Service... Just Say NO! > (480) 585-4099 les@safety.net http://www.les.safety.net/ > Network Safety Corp., 5831 E. Dynamite Blvd., Cave Creek, AZ 85331 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message