Dmesg output breaking up.

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 03:23 am, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> What is it that causes the dmesg output to break after a while?
>
>     jonah# dmesg
>     ev/ttyp0
>     pid 23007 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>     pid 61004 (perl), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
>
>     jonah# uname -a
>     FreeBSD jonah 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #5:
>         Mon Jan 12 00:17:33 GMT 2004 joe at jonah:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JONAH 
> i386
>
>     jonah# uptime
>      8:22AM  up 10 days,  7:45, 1 user, load averages: 0.08, 0.08, 0.03
>
> Joe

I don't remember the exact details, but dmesg -a will give you the entire 
message back.  I know that the cause goes back to when the console output 
started getting dumped into the message buffer.

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