There is an option to dmesg that converts the time stamp to a human readable format. 'man dmesg' should tell you what it is. I don't remember it offhand.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 2, 2016, at 6:47 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote: > > I have continuing problems with the optical drive in my laptop, which > is /dev/sr0. Just now I tried to see what dmesg said about it, but I > can't understand the numbers in front of the output. For example, for > 'dmesg |grep sr0' I get hundreds of lines like: > > [1384105.947297] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] > > I would like to know the time when this took place. It seems that the > first numbers ought to be a time stamp of some sort, but I need a > translation into human time. For that matter, it might be nice to know > what the rest of the line means as well. The only part that I > understand is [sr0]. The man page tells me options for the dmesg > command, but no information about understanding the output. > > Anyone? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug