System Management
dmesg
Displays kernel messages (BSD version).
FreeBSD
NetBSD
OpenBSD
Verified: 2025-09-09
Syntax
$dmesg [OPTIONS]
Examples
$dmesg
$dmesg | tail
$dmesg -c
Typical use cases
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Standard usage
dmesg --help
Note
BSD-specific version of dmesg (similar but different from Linux).
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