dmesg(8)

dmesg8

Display the system message buffer

Usage

dmesg [-M core] [-N system]

Overview

Dmesg displays the contents of the system message buffer. This command needs to be run as root.

Releases

163 releases since Mac OS X 10.0; the text changed 18 times.

  1. 10.0–10.3.9
  2. 10.4–10.4.4
  3. 10.4.4
  4. 10.4.5
  5. 10.4.5
  6. 10.4.6
  7. 10.4.6
  8. 10.4.7
  9. 10.4.7
  10. 10.4.8
  11. 10.4.8
  12. 10.4.9
  13. 10.4.9
  14. 10.4.10
  15. 10.4.10
  16. 10.4.11
  17. 10.4.11
  18. 10.5–11.5
  19. 12.0.1–26.5

-M until Mac OS X 10.4.11.ppc; -N until Mac OS X 10.4.11.ppc.

History

The dmesg command appeared in 4.0BSD.

From system_cmds 1042.120.1 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.