From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 09:49:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A101837B401 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:49:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F79F43FB1 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:49:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: (qmail 88148 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2003 16:49:25 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (192.168.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2003 16:49:25 -0000 Message-ID: <3EDF7495.6020905@tenebras.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 09:49:25 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, zh-tw, zh-cn, fr, en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Malcolm Kay References: <200306060117.39607.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200306060117.39607.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dmesg -- multiple boot messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 16:49:28 -0000 Malcolm Kay wrote: > I observe the 'dmesg' gives startup information not only for the latest > boot but also information generated in a number of previous boots. Normal. /var/run/dmesg.boot contains just the dmesg from the most recent boot. -- "Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred." - The Mahabharata