DMESG(8)

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💖 DMESG 💖

okay bestie, welcome to dmesg — it's a section 8 manual page (that's the sysadmin / system manager's manual, iykyk) and it is literally the "what has my kernel been yapping about" command 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

dmesg — display the system message buffer 🙈💬

like... it shows you the system message buffer. that's the whole job. iconic behavior, no notes.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dmesg [-M core] [-N system]

look at her. two options. she's lowkey minimal and highkey effective 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Dmesg displays the contents of the system message buffer. 💅

that's the buffer where the system dumps its messages, and dmesg is your girl showing you everything in there. main character energy fr fr 👑

🚨 okay important: this command needs to be run as root. needs to be run as root. so like... sudo it or don't bother, bestie 😭

💫 SEE ALSO 💫

  • syslogd(8) — the other one in the group chat 🫶

🦋 HISTORY 🦋

the dmesg command appeared in 4.0BSD. old money, honestly. she's been slaying since forever ⭐

and that's the whole page 🎀 the tea is: this is from the 4th Berkeley Distribution, dated June 5, 1993 — so yes, this manual page is older than most of us and still ate 💀🔥 love that for her. periodt 💜

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