John R Pierce wrote on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:07:35 -0800: > dmesg isn't a file, its a program thats dumping the kernel message > buffer. how do you live 'tail' it? dmesg|tail you knew that, did you ;-) Also, you can do tail /var/log/dmesg but the result is the last buffer. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com