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+'\" te
+.\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
+.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+.TH DMESG 8 "Jul 9, 2003"
+.SH NAME
+dmesg \- collect system diagnostic messages to form error log
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.LP
+.nf
+\fB/usr/bin/dmesg\fR
+.fi
+
+.LP
+.nf
+\fB/usr/sbin/dmesg\fR
+.fi
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.sp
+.LP
+\fBdmesg\fR is made obsolete by \fBsyslogd\fR(8) for maintenance of the system
+error log.
+.sp
+.LP
+\fBdmesg\fR looks in a system buffer for recently printed diagnostic messages
+and prints them on the standard output.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.sp
+.LP
+.BR attributes (7),
+.BR syslogd (8)