Re: UPDATE: FAQ-4.9 (dmesg)

On Thursday 22 February 2007 02:33, steven mestdagh wrote:
> J.C. Roberts [2007-02-21, 18:23:04]:
> > Below is a diff to augment FAQ 4.9 in hopes of getting more dmesg's
> > sent in and making sure they are usable.
> >
> >
> > --- faq/faq4.html.orig        Wed Feb 21 17:02:00 2007
> > +++ faq/faq4.html     Wed Feb 21 18:14:44 2007
> > @@ -2043,11 +2043,43 @@
> >   [email protected]
> >  </pre>
> >  where <tt>[email protected]</tt> is your regular email
> > account. -(or transfer the dmesg output using
> > FTP/scp/floppydisk/carrier-pigeon/...)
> >  <p>
> > +The methods above are much easier but if you chose not to
> > configure mail on +your OpenBSD system, you should still send your
> > dmesg to the developers. Save +your dmesg output to a text file.
>
> How about just using /var/run/dmesg.boot ?
>

Since dmesg is displaying the system message buffers, there can be
slight differences between dmesg.boot and dmesg output on an already
running system. For example, on my workstation dmesg output has an
extra line for auich0 (showing measured link rate) that is missing in
dmesg.boot. -I would bet there are also other reasons that I don't know
or understand. ;-)

Probably more import is the fact that "it's always been done that way"
so to keep things comparable, it's smart to keep doing it that way.

> Maybe a short note about GENERIC.MP could be inserted into
> etc/root/root.mail as well?

I think so but note the "From:" field is Theo, so it's *his* message.

kind regards,
jcr