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From: Trond Davidsen <trond.davidsen@ii.uib.no>
Subject: Re: bin/26746: dmesg only prints the last couple of lines of themessage  
 buffer
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The following reply was made to PR bin/26746; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Trond Davidsen <trond.davidsen@ii.uib.no>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/26746: dmesg only prints the last couple of lines of themessage  
 buffer
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:43:38 +0200

 > 
 > ISTR seeing this behaviour while using dmesg in single user mode.  This
 > seemed to be caused by the message buffer filling up and either the
 > internal wrap-around not working or dmesg not understanding the wrap-
 > around.
 > 
 > Bruce
 
 This box is used as a vpn server, with lots of ipfw logging, so the
 message buffer has definitly wraped around.  I think both of the
 scenarios you mention is wrong, and either should be documented, or
 dmesg should be fixed to give the pre -a behaviour when called without
 parameters.
 
 Trond

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