<div dir="ltr">heck, what's wrong with uname?  :-)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 June 2013 19:20, Richard Meyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meyerri@gardenshark.org" target="_blank">meyerri@gardenshark.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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My hero - that's the one .....<br>
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Couldn't get it ......<br>
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Thanks very much.<br>
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On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 17:06 +0800, Andrew Furey wrote:<br>
> Probably "dmesg"? :)<br>
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> Andrew<br>
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> On 23 June 2013 17:02, Richard Meyer <<a href="mailto:meyerri@gardenshark.org">meyerri@gardenshark.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>         Hi guys,<br>
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>         My age or my decrepitude is catching up with me.<br>
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>         For the LIFE of me, I cannot remember a command.<br>
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>         You'd be able to plug something into the computer, enter this<br>
>         command<br>
>         and it'd show you all manner of kernel messages and other<br>
>         interesting<br>
>         info ....<br>
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>         It wasn't a tail of /var/log/messages<br>
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>         Please help an absentminded twit.<br>
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>         Thanks.<br>
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>         --<br>
>         Richard Meyer<br>
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