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Old 01-19-2008, 07:13 AM
Moe Trin
 
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Default Re: Is there a another way to remove all message in kernel log buffer?

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<f62net$kor$1@news2.kornet.net>, google-rambo88 wrote:

> I can see kernel log message by running "dmesg"....after boot..
> As I know there is log buffer for this dmesg command...


[compton ~]$ whatis dmesg
dmesg (8) - print or control the kernel ring buffer
[compton ~]$

> I'd like to make it empty?


Why? Did you look at the 'dmesg' manual page?

> is there a another way to remove all message in kernel log buffer?


dmesg -c > /dev/null

Don't forget that many distributions dump the ring buffer to a file on
boot - see the startup scripts for your unnamed distribution.

Old guy
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