Am Mi, den 27.04.2005 schrieb Marc Olzheim um 20:31: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:24:36PM +0200, Marc Santhoff wrote: > > > That is 'kern.msgbuf' ;-) > > > > Hm, I've never seen such a verbose output before. > > > > Has anything changed in that area? And why does it still occur after a > > reboot, normally buffers are only temporarily valid(at least I thought > > so until a few minutes)? > > It's a fresh buffer every reboot. In you mail, it contained the last > part of your startup messages. > Everything that gets written to /dev/console is cycled through the > buffer and the last $(sysctl kern.consmsgbuf_size) KB is made accessible > via "sysctl kern.msgbuf".
I still don't understand completly. In the file made like this: sysctl -a > garbage.txt there are the messages of at least three reboot cycles. The only explanation would be "dmesg" using this message buffer for it's output, that's what I used immediately before creating the text file. Marc _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
