Talk:Dmesg

message: * There must be a way of doing a tail -f on dmesg. That may be worth noting. People will probably come to this page for all sorts of info on the dmesg command and this could be very useful information. --82.211.247.19 14:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  tail -f 

message: As the article mentions, the boot screen output typically scrolls too fast to read.  As the article does not mention, if the boot process fails, there is no way to run dmesg, so the source of the problem cannot be determined.
It is nuts that there is no standard way to slow, pause, and/or single-step the boot process screen output.  Presumably there is some ancient old-school way to direct the output to a serial port for capture on another computer.  It would be good to at least link to such information from this article.  And maybe it is worth mentioning the possibility of video recording the screen during the boot process?
Do any *nix have boot parameters to direct a copy of the boot output to floppy or USB for debugging systems that fail during boot?
Many readers will come to this article with an interest in boot debug issues.  Please add good links to related resources.
-71.174.186.200 (talk) 15:00, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  dmesg issues 

message: The lede should be amended to point out that this is not available on all Unix-like systems.  Here is one source listing alternatives. Tedickey (talk) 21:43, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unix-like 

message: # Is dmesg a command and/or a log file?
# Does it log only the current session?
## If so, does the file dmesg.0 contain the output from the previous session?
# What do the numbers at the start of each line signify? There are long sequences of lines that start with the same number before the decimal point, then that number jumps to some rather higher number. Why doesn't 1 follow after 0?
__meco (talk) 15:05, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Numbers at beginning of each line are timestamps. In recent editions of linux etc, you can use dmesg -T option to show timestamp in human-readable format. Raw format is higher resolution though, which is occasionally useful. Gwideman (talk) 01:31, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some issues that should be explained 

message: This article was without any real citations before so I've added some references here and there. Feel free to check them for notability or verifiability. If anything is out of place or irrelevant, please notify me, I'll do my best to correct that error.
Cheers. Furquan-lp (talk) 15:54, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added some citations 

message: The title is a command. Any objection to move the title to "Dmesg (Computing)"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sinking into reality (talk • contribs) 21:40, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah I oppose, there is no need to move it, since there is no disamb page, or other page with the same name. Also "(Computing)" should be "(computing)" lower case. Not all computing-related articles need to have (computing) in their title. -- Frap (talk) 22:00, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point on the disambiguation not needed for now. 👍 Sinking into reality (talk) 01:31, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move title to a parenthetical "Computing" inclusion