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Date:      Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:20:14 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff@t-online.de>
Cc:        "FreeBSD stable \(Liste\)" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [4.11] sysctl reports garbage
Message-ID:  <20050427212014.GA69666@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <1114628037.292.3.camel@zaphod.das.netz>
References:  <1114623987.302.82.camel@zaphod.das.netz> <1114626276.302.89.camel@zaphod.das.netz> <20050427183147.GC6256@stack.nl> <1114628037.292.3.camel@zaphod.das.netz>

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:53:57PM +0200, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> I still don't understand completly. In the file made like this:
> 
> sysctl -a > garbage.txt
> 
> there are the messages of at least three reboot cycles.

The kernel tries to preserve the message buffer if it has not been
cleared by rebooting - this makes it easier to find messages that
might otherwise have been lost during an unexpected reboot.


	David.



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