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Old 02-18-2008, 06:07 AM
Gabriel George POPA
 
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I have two small questions:
1) When the OS generates too much messages, old messages are lost
(oldest lines present in `dmesg` are lost).
What can I do to see ALL messages ever recorded for dmesg printing? More
precisely, take a look at my `dmesg`:
# dmesg
arp info overwritten for 193.231.39.129 by 00:90:bf:10:88:40 on vr0
arp info overwritten for 193.231.39.129 by 00:10:dc:4c:6f:6c on vr0
arp info overwritten for 193.231.39.36 by 00:15:f2:16:f8:b4 on vr0
arp info overwritten for 193.231.39.54 by 00:e0:29:9b:bc:6c on vr0
....
(and a lot of other similar messages, similar if not even identical)

Most questions on this mail list require me to provide a valid output of
dmesg. But if old messages are erased, how am I
supposed to do this? I am not allowed to reboot the machine! The machine
is supposed to be running 24/7, NO reboot allowed.

2) What do these lines mean (the lines I copied above from the output of
`dmesg`)?

NOTE: I'm using OpenBSD 3.8 on i386 (P4).


Yours in BSDness,

Gabriel George POPA

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