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DMESG(1) User Commands DMESG(1)
dmesg - print or control the kernel ring buffer
dmesg [options]
dmesg --clear
dmesg --read-clear [options]
dmesg --console-level level
dmesg --console-on
dmesg --console-off
dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer.
The default action is to display all messages from the kernel
ring buffer.
The --clear, --read-clear, --console-on, --console-off, and
--console-level options are mutually exclusive.
-C, --clear
Clear the ring buffer.
-c, --read-clear
Clear the ring buffer after first printing its contents.
-D, --console-off
Disable the printing of messages to the console.
-d, --show-delta
Display the timestamp and the time delta spent between
messages. If used together with --notime then only the time
delta without the timestamp is printed.
-E, --console-on
Enable printing messages to the console.
-e, --reltime
Display the local time and the delta in human-readable
format. Be aware that conversion to the local time could be
inaccurate (see -T for more details).
-F, --file file
Read the syslog messages from the given file. Note that -F
does not support messages in kmsg format. See -K instead.
-f, --facility list
Restrict output to the given (comma-separated) list of
facilities. For example:
dmesg --facility=daemon
will print messages from system daemons only. For all
supported facilities see the --help output.
-H, --human
Enable human-readable output. See also --color, --reltime and
--nopager.
-J, --json
Use JSON output format. The time output format is in
"sec.usec" format only, log priority level is not decoded by
default (use --decode to split into facility and priority),
the other options to control the output format or time format
are silently ignored.
-K, --kmsg-file file
Read the /dev/kmsg messages from the given file. Different
record as expected to be separated by a NULL byte.
-k, --kernel
Print kernel messages.
-L, --color[=when]
Colorize the output. The optional argument when can be auto,
never or always. If the when argument is omitted, it defaults
to auto. The colors can be disabled; for the current built-in
default see the --help output. See also the COLORS section
below.
-l, --level list
Restrict output to the given (comma-separated) list of
levels. For example:
dmesg --level=err,warn
will print error and warning messages only. For all supported
levels see the --help output.
Appending a plus + to a level name also includes all higher
levels. For example:
dmesg --level=err+
will print levels err, crit, alert and emerg.
Prepending it will include all lower levels.
-n, --console-level level
Set the level at which printing of messages is done to the
console. The level is a level number or abbreviation of the
level name. For all supported levels see the --help output.
For example, -n 1 or -n emerg prevents all messages, except
emergency (panic) messages, from appearing on the console.
All levels of messages are still written to /proc/kmsg, so
syslogd(8) can still be used to control exactly where kernel
messages appear. When the -n option is used, dmesg will not
print or clear the kernel ring buffer.
--noescape
The unprintable and potentially unsafe characters (e.g.,
broken multi-byte sequences, terminal controlling chars,
etc.) are escaped in format \x<hex> for security reason by
default. This option disables this feature at all. It’s
usable for example for debugging purpose together with --raw.
Be careful and don’t use it by default.
-P, --nopager
Do not pipe output into a pager. A pager is enabled by
default for --human output.
-p, --force-prefix
Add facility, level or timestamp information to each line of
a multi-line message.
-r, --raw
Print the raw message buffer, i.e., do not strip the
log-level prefixes, but all unprintable characters are still
escaped (see also --noescape).
Note that the real raw format depends on the method how dmesg
reads kernel messages. The /dev/kmsg device uses a different
format than syslog(2). For backward compatibility, dmesg
returns data always in the syslog(2) format. It is possible
to read the real raw data from /dev/kmsg by, for example, the
command 'dd if=/dev/kmsg iflag=nonblock'.
-S, --syslog
Force dmesg to use the syslog(2) kernel interface to read
kernel messages. The default is to use /dev/kmsg rather than
syslog(2) since kernel 3.5.0.
-s, --buffer-size size
Use a buffer of size to query the kernel ring buffer. This is
16392 by default. (The default kernel syslog buffer size was
4096 at first, 8192 since 1.3.54, 16384 since 2.1.113.) If
you have set the kernel buffer to be larger than the default,
then this option can be used to view the entire buffer.
-T, --ctime
Print human-readable timestamps.
Be aware that the timestamp could be inaccurate! The time
source used for the logs is not updated after system
SUSPEND/RESUME. Timestamps are adjusted according to current
delta between boottime and monotonic clocks, this works only
for messages printed after last resume.
--since time
Display record since the specified time. Supported is the
subsecond granularity. The time is possible to specify in
absolute way as well as by relative notation (e.g. '1 hour
ago'). Be aware that the timestamp could be inaccurate and
see --ctime for more details.
--until time
Display record until the specified time. Supported is the
subsecond granularity. The time is possible to specify in
absolute way as well as by relative notation (e.g. '1 hour
ago'). Be aware that the timestamp could be inaccurate and
see --ctime for more details.
-t, --notime
Do not print kernel’s timestamps.
--time-format format
Print timestamps using the given format, which can be ctime,
reltime, delta, iso or raw. The first three formats are
aliases of the time-format-specific options. The raw format
uses the default timestamp format showing seconds since boot.
The iso format is a dmesg implementation of the ISO-8601
timestamp format. The purpose of this format is to make the
comparing of timestamps between two systems, and any other
parsing, easy. The definition of the iso timestamp is:
YYYY-MM-DD<T>HH:MM:SS,<microseconds>←+><timezone offset from
UTC>.
The iso format has the same issue as ctime: the time may be
inaccurate when a system is suspended and resumed.
--time-format may be used multiple times with different
values for format to output each specified format.
The delta always follows ctime or raw if specified together.
-u, --userspace
Print userspace messages.
-w, --follow
Wait for new messages. This feature is supported only on
systems with a readable /dev/kmsg (since kernel 3.5.0).
-W, --follow-new
Wait and print only new messages.
-x, --decode
Decode facility and level (priority) numbers to
human-readable prefixes.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
Print version and exit.
The output colorization is implemented by terminal-colors.d(5)
functionality. Implicit coloring can be disabled by an empty file
/etc/terminal-colors.d/dmesg.disable
for the dmesg command or for all tools by
/etc/terminal-colors.d/disable
The user-specific $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/terminal-colors.d or
$HOME/.config/terminal-colors.d overrides the global setting.
Note that the output colorization may be enabled by default, and
in this case terminal-colors.d directories do not have to exist
yet.
The logical color names supported by dmesg are:
subsys
The message sub-system prefix (e.g., "ACPI:").
time
The message timestamp.
timebreak
The message timestamp in short ctime format in --reltime or
--human output.
alert
The text of the message with the alert log priority.
crit
The text of the message with the critical log priority.
err
The text of the message with the error log priority.
warn
The text of the message with the warning log priority.
segfault
The text of the message that inform about segmentation fault.
dmesg can fail reporting permission denied error. This is usually
caused by dmesg_restrict kernel setting, please see syslog(2) for
more details.
Karel Zak <[email protected]>
dmesg was originally written by Theodore Ts’o
<[email protected]>.
terminal-colors.d(5), syslogd(8)
For bug reports, use the issue tracker at
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.
The dmesg command is part of the util-linux package which can be
downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>. This page
is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
utilities) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩. If you have
a bug report for this manual page, send it to
[email protected]. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git⟩ on
2024-06-14. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2024-06-10.) If you discover
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send a mail to [email protected]
util-linux 2.41.devel-537-e... 2024-01-28 DMESG(1)
Pages that refer to this page: syslog(2), proc(5), proc_kmsg(5), systemd.exec(5), terminal-colors.d(5), babeltrace2-plugin-text(7), babeltrace2-source.text.dmesg(7), iptables-extensions(8), tc-bpf(8), wg(8)
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