-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:42:04 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > Type "dmesg" or look at /var/log/messages. > > perhaps someone can clarify this for me, but there are two > sources of "dmesg" output lines: the "dmesg" command itself, > and /var/log/dmesg. > > based on what i've read, since the kernel ring buffer > has a finite size, unless you run "dmesg" soon after booting, > the earliest kernel-generated boot messages may be dropped > from the ring buffer. > > is this the case with /var/log/dmesg? anyone want to take > a crack at explaining this carefully? It is like you described. /var/log/dmesg is a snapshot of the kernel ring buffer created with the dmesg command near the end of the rc.sysinit script. At run-time it can happen that boot-time information is pushed out of the ring buffer and "dmesg" would only print the more recent messages. So, the place to look would be /var/log/dmesg. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE++aJp0iMVcrivHFQRAiDIAJwOlhrbSML6YrxMWdUI3drbGeJd7ACfU771 70TuD8cRRwVfkJFS5vw/q3Y= =pPjl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
