From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 5 17:29:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 298DD16AFE2 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:29:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5269843D5D for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:28:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k55HSr2t005800; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 12:28:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <448469D5.8060700@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:28:53 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Maness References: <44843B61.5050209@chrismaness.com> In-Reply-To: <44843B61.5050209@chrismaness.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dmesg not working on new system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:29:08 -0000 Chris Maness wrote: > I just installed 6.1 and upgraded to RELEASE-p1. The command dmesg is > not displaying any kernel messages, any suggestions? Suggests all is well? dmesg outputs stuff from the current system message buffer, which contains your boot messages right after booting but those can get flushed over time. Boot messages are saved to a file though, for reference. more /var/run/dmesg.boot -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348