[plug] Help me, I've gone blank

[Kevin Shackleton]

heck, what's wrong with uname?  :-)


On 23 June 2013 19:20, Richard Meyer <meyerri at gardenshark.org> wrote:

>
> My hero - that's the one .....
>
> Couldn't get it ......
>
> Thanks very much.
>
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> 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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> >
> >
> > --
> > Linux supports the notion of a command line or a shell for the same
> > reason that only children read books with only pictures in them.
> > Language, be it English or something else, is the only tool flexible
> > enough to accomplish a sufficiently broad range of tasks.
> >                           -- Bill Garrett
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> --
> Richard Meyer
>
> Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
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>
> Linux Counter user #306629
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