Gabriel, You can always pipe it to more, like this
# dmesg | more and you can make the output go to a file, with # dmesg > filename Regards, Loz On 8/7/06, Gabriel George POPA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have two small questions: > 1) When the OS generates too much messages, old messages are lost > (oldest lines present in `dmesg` are lost). > What can I do to see ALL messages ever recorded for dmesg printing? More > precisely, take a look at my `dmesg`: > # dmesg > arp info overwritten for 193.231.39.129 by 00:90:bf:10:88:40 on vr0 > arp info overwritten for 193.231.39.129 by 00:10:dc:4c:6f:6c on vr0 > arp info overwritten for 193.231.39.36 by 00:15:f2:16:f8:b4 on vr0 > arp info overwritten for 193.231.39.54 by 00:e0:29:9b:bc:6c on vr0 > ... > (and a lot of other similar messages, similar if not even identical) > > Most questions on this mail list require me to provide a valid output of > dmesg. But if old messages are erased, how am I > supposed to do this? I am not allowed to reboot the machine! The machine > is supposed to be running 24/7, NO reboot allowed. > > 2) What do these lines mean (the lines I copied above from the output of > `dmesg`)? > > NOTE: I'm using OpenBSD 3.8 on i386 (P4). > > > Yours in BSDness, > > Gabriel George POPA
