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| author | Karel Zak | 2012-07-19 18:35:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2012-07-19 18:35:20 +0200 |
| commit | ed61acc2542ebb0d9b8f5600c38fbe0d77933345 (patch) | |
| tree | f418c836d37c21bb3465a671acc5784c53781da3 /sys-utils/dmesg.1 | |
| parent | dmesg: refactoring for kmsg support (diff) | |
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dmesg: add --syslog to force to old syslog(2) interface
... just for debugging or for people who somehow depends on syslog(2)
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/dmesg.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/dmesg.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 b/sys-utils/dmesg.1 index 5bb0dd2dd..8e6088e49 100644 --- a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 +++ b/sys-utils/dmesg.1 @@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ will print or clear the kernel ring buffer. .IP "\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-raw\fR" Print the raw message buffer, i.e., do not strip the log level prefixes. +.IP "\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-syslog\fR" +Force to use +.BR syslog(2) +kernel interface to read kernel messages. The default is to use /dev/kmsg rather +than +.BR syslog(2) +since kernel 3.5.0. .IP "\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-buffer-size \fIsize\fR Use a buffer of .I size |