DMESG(8) BSD System Manager's Manual DMESG(8)
dmesg - display the system message buffer
dmesg [-M core] [-N system]
dmesg displays the contents of the system message buffer. It is most com- monly used to review system startup messages. The options are as follows: -M core Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core instead of the default /dev/kmem. -N system Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default /bsd.
/var/run/dmesg.boot copy of dmesg created at boot
syslogd(8)
The dmesg command appeared in 4.0BSD. MirBSD #10-current June 5, 1993 1