William L. Maltby wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 14:07 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > >> Rick wrote: >> <snip> >> > > >> 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.