Dmesg

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dmesg (for "diagnostic message") is a command that prints the message buffer of the kernel. This buffer contains a variety of important messages from those printed during boot to those used for debugging software. This information may also be stored to disk via a logging daemon, such as syslog.

See also

  • syslogd
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