[plug] Help me, I've gone blank

[Richard Meyer]

My hero - that's the one .....

Couldn't get it ......

Thanks very much.




On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 17:06 +0800, Andrew Furey wrote:
> 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
>         
>         Poetry is the last refuge of the bearded, cricket-hating
>         Sodomite.
>         
>         Linux Counter user #306629
>         
>         
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-- 
Richard Meyer

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 
William Pitt, 1783

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