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-rw-r--r--sbin/dmesg/dmesg.86
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.8 b/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.8
index 2ece4d3a7d4..2eae23e284f 100644
--- a/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.8
+++ b/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: dmesg.8,v 1.15 2015/01/13 10:07:58 mpf Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: dmesg.8,v 1.16 2015/03/13 16:15:08 deraadt Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: dmesg.8,v 1.9 1995/03/18 14:54:47 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)dmesg.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 13 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 13 2015 $
.Dt DMESG 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
.Nm
displays the contents of the system message buffer.
It is most commonly used to review system startup messages.
+On some systems the message buffer can survive reboot and be
+retained (in the hope of exposing information from a crash).
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds