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Re: How did you got these lines ?



You don't actually need to be root to use dmesg.

On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Ralph
Winslow wrote:

> When shaul@rakefet.va.debian.org wrote, I replied:
> 
> Try the following:
> 
> su - root
> <the_root_password>
> dmesg | pg
> <ENTER>
> <ENTER>
> .
> .
> .
> It will display in a way you can read at a leisurely
> pace, the messages that wizz by at startup.  Specifically,
> the messages that were displayed during the last startup
> of the system that you're on when enter those shell 
> commands.  The lines you mentioned are among those 
> messages.  If you:
> 
> dmesg >/tmp/dmesg.msg
> 
> you create a file, /tmp/dmesg.msg, which contains all 
> those messages.  You can edit that file with your
> favorite editor to be any part of that message or you
> might:
> 
> head -50 /tmp/dmesg.msg  | tail -15
> 
> to see the 35th through 50th lines of those messages. HTH
> 
> 
> > > very near the beginning and:
> > >
> > > Initializing random number generator...
> > > Configuring serial ports....
> > > done.
> > > /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> > > /dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> > > Typematic Rate set to 15.0 cps (delay = 500 mS)
> > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> > 
> > How did you produced these lines ? Are they are written in one of the log
> > files ?
> > 
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