[lug] Continuous dmesg Monitoring?

[Stephen Queen]

Never really thought about it, but thats handy to know. I will use it now
that I know about it.

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Vishal Verma <stellarhopper at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Most modern 'dmesg' should have the --follow option for this.
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 1:39 PM, <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Long ago I only needed the content of "/var/log/messages", and could
>> monitor this continuously via "tail -f /var/log/messages". These days the
>> dmesg ring buffer is the interface, but I've never found a way to "tail -f"
>> this continuously. Can anyone here suggest any tricks to monitor dmesg in
>> real time without polling?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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