NAME
dmesg – display the system message buffer
SYNOPSIS
dmesg [-M core] [-N system]
DESCRIPTION
Dmesg displays the contents of the system message buffer. This command needs to be run as root.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The dmesg command appeared in 4.0BSD.
dmesg(8)
display the system message buffer
History
- macOS 26.5 to macOS 12.0.1: the text shown here
- macOS 11.5 to Mac OS X 10.5
- Mac OS X 10.4.11.x86
- Mac OS X 10.4.11.ppc
- Mac OS X 10.4.10.x86
- Mac OS X 10.4.10.ppc
- Mac OS X 10.4.9.x86
- Mac OS X 10.4.9.ppc
- Mac OS X 10.4.8.x86
- Mac OS X 10.4.8.ppc
- Mac OS X 10.4.7.x86
- Mac OS X 10.4.7.ppc
- Mac OS X 10.4.6.x86
- Mac OS X 10.4.6.ppc
- Mac OS X 10.4.5.x86
- Mac OS X 10.4.5.ppc
- Mac OS X 10.4.4.x86
- Mac OS X 10.4.4.ppc to Mac OS X 10.4
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 to Mac OS X 10.0
-M until Mac OS X 10.4.11.ppc;
-N until Mac OS X 10.4.11.ppc.