RTAS_DUMP(8)

🌸 RTAS_DUMP(8) 🌸

okay bestie, so this one lives in Linux on Power Service Tools and it's called rtas_dump — and yes, it's as iconic as it sounds 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

rtas_dump — dump the contents of an RTAS event 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

/usr/sbin/rtas_dump [ options ]

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so picture this: the rtas_dump command is literally here to dump the contents of an RTAS event into a human readable form. like, it takes the raw event and makes it make sense. main character energy fr fr 🌈

the tool is able to parse the contents of /var/log/messages, /var/log/platform and /var/log/boot.msg to extract and dump the contents of RTAS events. three whole logs, she's versatile like that 💖

RTAS events can also be read in from a specified file or from stdin. so like, you're not locked into the log files, you can just hand her the data directly 🫶

and here's the thing — the real work of de-coding RTAS events is handled by /usr/sbin/rtas_event_decode. the rtas_dump command is lowkey just the middleman: she simply parses the input and files and passes on the data to rtas_event_decode. not her doing the decoding, she's the connector, the hype girl, the pipeline 💀✨

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -d — debug flag, passed through to rtas_event_decode 🔍
• -f file — dump the RTAS event(s) from file 🍓
• -h — print the usage message and exit (your exit strategy, love that for you) 🎀
• -n num — Only dump RTAS event number num ✨
• -v — dump the entire contents of the RTAS event(s), not just the header 🔥
• -w — set the output character width 📏

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 💖

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aaaand that's the whole page bestie, no cap, every flag accounted for 👑

sign-off szn: this one's from Linux, dated May 2005 — vintage but still slaying 🌸💅