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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 |
| 2 | .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. | |
| 1da6d6c3 | 3 | .\" |
| 0fccfdb8 | 4 | .\" %sccs.include.redist.man% |
| 1da6d6c3 | 5 | .\" |
| b890173a | 6 | .\" @(#)dmesg.8 8.1 (Berkeley) %G% |
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7 | .\" |
| 8 | .Dd | |
| 9 | .Dt DMESG 8 | |
| 10 | .Os BSD 4 | |
| 11 | .Sh NAME | |
| 12 | .Nm dmesg | |
| befa51e1 | 13 | .Nd "display the system message buffer" |
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14 | .Sh SYNOPSIS |
| 15 | .Nm dmesg | |
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16 | .Op Fl M Ar core |
| 17 | .Op Fl N Ar system | |
| 0fccfdb8 | 18 | .Sh DESCRIPTION |
| 0fccfdb8 | 19 | .Nm Dmesg |
| befa51e1 | 20 | displays the contents of the system message buffer. |
| 0fccfdb8 | 21 | .Pp |
| befa51e1 | 22 | The options are as follows: |
| 0fccfdb8 | 23 | .Bl -tag -width Ds |
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24 | .It Fl M |
| 25 | Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core | |
| 26 | instead of the default ``/dev/kmem''. | |
| 27 | .It Fl N | |
| 28 | Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default | |
| 29 | ``/vmunix''. | |
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30 | .El |
| 31 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
| 32 | .Xr syslogd 8 | |
| 33 | .Sh HISTORY | |
| 34 | The | |
| 35 | .Nm | |
| 36 | command appeared in | |
| 37 | .Bx 4.0 . |