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| author | Karel Zak | 2014-05-12 09:53:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2014-05-13 12:13:02 +0200 |
| commit | f4bc7f96a6ff6239e89334e5b887227eb9f4d9c2 (patch) | |
| tree | efdff50682ca84378025d1ee17dae6ab73a2656e /sys-utils/dmesg.1 | |
| parent | lib/colors: update man page (diff) | |
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dmesg: support colors customization
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/dmesg.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/dmesg.1 | 44 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 b/sys-utils/dmesg.1 index 75af1ec53..c4c64dfe5 100644 --- a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 +++ b/sys-utils/dmesg.1 @@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ Display help text and exit. .IP "\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-kernel\fR" Print kernel messages. .IP "\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-color\fR[=\fIwhen\fR]" -Colorize important messages. The optional argument \fIwhen\fP can be \fBauto\fR, -\fBnever\fR or \fBalways\fR. If the \fIwhen\fR argument is omitted, +Colorize important messages (enabled by default). The optional argument \fIwhen\fP +can be \fBauto\fR, \fBnever\fR or \fBalways\fR. If the \fIwhen\fR argument is omitted, then it defaults to \fBauto\fR. .IP "\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-level \fIlist\fR" Restrict output to the given (comma-separated) @@ -178,23 +178,47 @@ format has the same issue as .BR ctime : the time may be inaccurate when a system is suspended and resumed. .SH COLORS -Implicit coloring can be disabled as follows: -.RS +Implicit coloring can be disabled by an empty file \fI/etc/terminal-colors.d/dmesg.disable\fR. -.br -.BI "touch /etc/terminal-colors.d/dmesg.disable" -.br +See +.BR terminal-colors.d (5) +for more details about colorization configuration. The logical color names +support by +.B dmesg +are: +.TP +.B subsys +The message sub-system prefix (e.g. "ACPI:"). +.TP +.B time +The message timestamp. +.TP +.B alert +The text of the message with the alert log priority. +.TP +.B crit +The text of the message with the critical log priority. +.TP +.B err +The text of the message with the error log priority. +.TP +.B warn +The text of the message with the warning log priority. +.TP +.B segfault +The text of the message that inform about segmentation fault. -.RE -For more details see -.BR terminal-colors.d (5). .SH SEE ALSO .BR syslogd (8) +.BR terminal-colors.d (5) .SH AUTHORS .MT kzak@redhat.com Karel Zak .ME + .br +.B dmesg +was originally written by .MT tytso@athena.mit.edu Theodore Ts'o .ME |