Re: dmesg and root-tail

2009-07-11 Thread Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 2:38 PM, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > is there a way to have root-tail display what dmesg puts out? > > Like "dmesg | root-tail" --- but dmesg creates output only once. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: dmesg and root-tail

2009-07-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:42:13PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:24:01AM -0700, Chris Hiestand wrote: > > Why not just do this: > > > >> tail -f /var/log/kern.log > > That log file is empty ... $ grep kern.log /etc/rsyslog.conf kern.* -/var/log/kern.log

Re: dmesg and root-tail

2009-07-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:32:59PM EDT, lee wrote: > The "tail -f" waits for more output from dmesg, but dmesg won't > produce any more output. dmesg is supposed to print the contents of > the kernel buffer; it does exactly that and then ends. It also doesn't > have an option like -f to tell it to

Re: dmesg and root-tail

2009-07-11 Thread lee
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:24:01AM -0700, Chris Hiestand wrote: > Why not just do this: > >> tail -f /var/log/kern.log That log file is empty ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: dmesg and root-tail

2009-07-11 Thread lee
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 01:33:21AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:08:40AM -0600, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there a way to have root-tail display what dmesg puts out? > > > > Like "dmesg | root-tail" --- but dmesg creates output only once. > > I do not know about "root-

Re: dmesg and root-tail

2009-07-11 Thread Chris Hiestand
Why not just do this: tail -f /var/log/kern.log On Jul 11, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:08:40AM -0600, lee wrote: Hi, is there a way to have root-tail display what dmesg puts out? Like "dmesg | root-tail" --- but dmesg creates output only once. I do

Re: dmesg and root-tail

2009-07-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:08:40AM -0600, lee wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to have root-tail display what dmesg puts out? > > Like "dmesg | root-tail" --- but dmesg creates output only once. I do not know about "root-tail" command but .. "dmesg | tail -f" may do interesting thing -- To UN