System Startup Messages

Chris Pressey cpressey at catseye.mine.nu
Fri Jan 23 21:58:33 PST 2004


On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:54:37 -0800
Rishi Chopra <rchopra at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> I'm running a FreeBSD machine with no head (e.g. no monitor installed to 
> the machine).
> 
> Is there a way to view the statup messages from the system once the 
> machine is up and running via SSH?  What is the name of the file that 
> would have the messages (specifically any output sent to the terminal 
> with regards to detecting and installing devices)?

man 8 dmesg

HTH
-Chris


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