In article <493EF930.6010501 at hogranch.com>, John R Pierce <centos at centos.org> wrote: >when I do that it lists the usual 10 lines from tail, then exits, -f or not. I didn't quite mean tailing the dmesg program. What you need to tail (IIRC) is /proc/kmsg. -- http://www.spinics.net/lists/