1.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)dmesg.8 6.5 (Berkeley) 5/2/91 33.\" 34.\" $Header: /cvsroot/src/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.8,v 1.5 1993/06/13 23:21:34 mycroft Exp $ 35.\" 36.Dd May 2, 1991 37.Dt DMESG 8 38.Os BSD 4 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm dmesg 41.Nd "display the system message buffer" 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm dmesg 44.Op Fl M Ar core 45.Op Fl N Ar system 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47.Nm Dmesg 48displays the contents of the system message buffer. 49.Pp 50The options are as follows: 51.Bl -tag -width Ds 52.It Fl M 53Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core 54instead of the default ``/dev/kmem''. 55.It Fl N 56Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default 57``/netbsd''. 58.El 59.Sh FILES 60.Bl -tag -width /dev/kmem -compact 61.It Pa /dev/kmem 62default kernel memory 63.It Pa /netbsd 64default system namelist 65.El 66.Sh SEE ALSO 67.Xr syslogd 8 68.Sh HISTORY 69The 70.Nm 71command appeared in 72.Bx 4.0 . 73