On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:45:53AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 19:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, I want to review the lines and lines of text > > that printout during startup, but they quickly scroll > > off the screen. > > just type 'dmesg'. Once done, you maybe want to type 'dmesg | less' :) > > HTH, > Schnobs > > Hi, yes dmesg will show what happends from boot to init. to see what happends after, look at /var/log/messages it show what happens from init to shutdown. The difference is that dmesg is reset after each reboot but /var/log/messages is kept and eventually has its log rotated. Also try tail -f /var/log/messages and then insert something (a usb device, a pcmcia card....) and what the result. (do ctrl - c to break out of the tail) -kev
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