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| author | Sami Kerola | 2018-04-26 22:44:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2018-05-03 10:47:01 +0200 |
| commit | 1c199a6e1571ea8f0630e25d05dcdc678f933caf (patch) | |
| tree | cabb97a2ad18a4d0c2c0736d004f721bb2b141f9 /sys-utils/dmesg.1 | |
| parent | libfdisk: fix compiler warning [-Wunused-parameter] (diff) | |
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dmesg: link together with syslog(2) manual page
The dmesg may require capabilities(7) when /proc/sys/kernel/dmesg_restrict
has none zero value. This is explained in detail in syslog(2) manual page.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/dmesg.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/dmesg.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 b/sys-utils/dmesg.1 index 1dc9994ec..2b61c3739 100644 --- a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 +++ b/sys-utils/dmesg.1 @@ -228,7 +228,13 @@ The text of the message with the warning log priority. .TP .B segfault The text of the message that inform about segmentation fault. - +.SH EXIT STATUS +.B dmesg +can fail reporting permission denied error. This is usually caused by +.B dmesg_restrict +kernel setting, please see +.BR syslog (2) +for more details. .SH SEE ALSO .BR terminal-colors.d (5), .BR syslogd (8) |