[plug] Help me, I've gone blank

[Andrew Furey]

Probably "dmesg"? :)

Andrew


On 23 June 2013 17:02, Richard Meyer <meyerri at gardenshark.org> wrote:

>
> Hi guys,
>
> My age or my decrepitude is catching up with me.
>
> For the LIFE of me, I cannot remember a command.
>
> You'd be able to plug something into the computer, enter this command
> and it'd show you all manner of kernel messages and other interesting
> info ....
>
> It wasn't a tail of /var/log/messages
>
> Please help an absentminded twit.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Richard Meyer
>
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>
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>
>
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