William L. Maltby wrote:
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 14:07 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
Rick wrote:
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dmesg isn't a file, its a program thats dumping the kernel message buffer. how do you live 'tail' it?
# dmesg|tail -f usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 2 agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
when I do that it lists the usual 10 lines from tail, then exits, -f or not.