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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:47:56 -0700
From:      Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
To:        Sergei Vyshenski <fbsd4@pn.sinp.msu.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fxp damages dmesg?
Message-ID:  <3F624D1C.7050306@tenebras.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030913015611.00a75180@vivaldi.pn.sinp.msu.ru>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20030913015611.00a75180@vivaldi.pn.sinp.msu.ru>

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Sergei Vyshenski wrote:

> dmesg reports usual text only a few seconds after reboot.
> Later it displays a single line with a fragment of ipfw log, e.g.
> 
> 167 213.131.11.152 in via fxp0

This is fairly normal -- the system message buffer contents aren't
static.  On a system with a long uptime, you might see nothing
but arp messages, or core dump messages, etc.

That's why /var/run/dmesg.boot exists.




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