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Samuel Sieb samuel at sieb.net
Mon Nov 18 19:56:28 UTC 2013


On 11/18/2013 10:21 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> How does one view the dmesg? When I try vi most of what I see is
> gibberish - @ signs with a few meaningless capital letters.
>
I probably shouldn't have used dmesg to describe it.  It's the kernel 
message log.  There's a dmesg command to view it and there used to be a 
/var/log/dmesg file.

There are several options to view the kernel message log:
dmesg
grep kernel: /var/log/messages
journalctl -b _TRANSPORT=kernel



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