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Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/dmesg/dmesg.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/dmesg/dmesg.8 | 6 |
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 |