1.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)dmesg.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/05/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt DMESG 8 10.Os BSD 4 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm dmesg 13.Nd "display the system message buffer" 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm dmesg 16.Op Fl M Ar core 17.Op Fl N Ar system 18.Sh DESCRIPTION 19.Nm Dmesg 20displays the contents of the system message buffer. 21.Pp 22The options are as follows: 23.Bl -tag -width Ds 24.It Fl M 25Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core 26instead of the default ``/dev/kmem''. 27.It Fl N 28Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default 29``/vmunix''. 30.El 31.Sh SEE ALSO 32.Xr syslogd 8 33.Sh HISTORY 34The 35.Nm 36command appeared in 37.Bx 4.0 . 38