From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 15 2:24:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF1137B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:24:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net (mtaout.telus.net [199.185.220.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE0E043E42 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:24:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sh@planetquake.com) Received: from dbs ([216.232.29.145]) by priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.01 201-253-122-122-101-20011014) with SMTP id <20020915092410.TYAI5461.priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net@dbs> for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 03:24:10 -0600 Message-ID: <000501c25c99$af6b6d40$911de8d8@slugabed.org> From: "Sean Hamilton" To: Subject: dmesg circular buffer Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:24:25 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, As I understand, "dmesg" prints the tail end of a circular buffer stored someplace on the root partition. Is it possible to have it read back beyond the last reboot? Occasionaly I see it do this, though I have no idea why. In this case, I have a kernel that panicked, and am looking for clues. Nothing in /var/log/messages... sh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message