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| author | Karel Zak | 2011-07-14 13:31:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2011-07-14 13:31:53 +0200 |
| commit | 5ef053699bbe8893c08d99756d80b3ed863698a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 3725f2bb8c78ffafcb485d596a5e355b63d164ec /sys-utils/dmesg.1 | |
| parent | dmesg: add --facility option (diff) | |
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dmesg: reorder options, add comments
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/dmesg.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/dmesg.1 | 27 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 b/sys-utils/dmesg.1 index 0628232e2..cb0e71677 100644 --- a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 +++ b/sys-utils/dmesg.1 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License -.TH DMESG 1 "Jun 2011" +.TH DMESG 1 "Jul 2011" .SH NAME dmesg \- print or control the kernel ring buffer .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -37,23 +37,23 @@ Disable printing messages to the console. .IP "\fB\-e, \-\-console-on\fP" Enable printing messages to the console. .IP "\fB\-f, \-\-facility \fIlist\fP" -Restrict output to defined (comma separated) list of facilities. For exmaple +Restrict output to defined (comma separated) list of facilities. For example .sp dmesg --facility=daemon .sp -will print messages from system daemons only. -.IP "\fB\-x, \-\-decode\fP" -Decode facility and level (priority) number to human readable prefixes. +will print messages from system daemons only. For all supported facilities see +.B dmesg \-\-help +output. .IP "\fB\-h, \-\-help\fP" Print a help text and exit. .IP "\fB\-l, \-\-level \fIlist\fP" -Restrict output to defined (comma separated) list of levels. For exmaple +Restrict output to defined (comma separated) list of levels. For example .sp dmesg --level=err,warn .sp -will print error and warning messages only. -.IP "\fB\-x, \-\-decode\fP" -Decode facility and level (priority) number to human readable prefixes. +will print error and warning messages only. For all supported levels see +.B dmesg \-\-help +output. .IP "\fB\-n, \-\-console-level \fIlevel\fP Set the .I level @@ -92,10 +92,15 @@ If you have set the kernel buffer to be larger than the default then this option can be used to view the entire buffer. .IP "\fB\-V, \-\-version\fP" Output version information and exit. +.IP "\fB\-x, \-\-decode\fP" +Decode facility and level (priority) number to human readable prefixes. .SH SEE ALSO .BR syslogd (8) -.\" .SH AUTHOR -.\" Theodore Ts'o (tytso@athena.mit.edu) +.SH AUTHORS +.nf +Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> +Theodore Ts'o <tytso@athena.mit.edu> +.fi .SH AVAILABILITY The dmesg command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |