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Subject: Re: Freebsd 9.0 release and dmesg
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On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 09:24 -0800, JD wrote:
> dmesg no longer outputs the kernel messages.
> 
> $ dmesg
> $
> $ which dmesg
> /sbin/dmesg
> $what /sbin/dmesg
> /sbin/dmesg:
> 
> So, I have no idea what version of dmesg got installed.
> 
> Anyone on 9.0 Release have this problem? How to fix it?
> ________________________

I would assume that something is writing a lot to the console?  Is there
any indication of this in /var/log/messages?

Sean