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diff --git a/man5/proc_kmsg.5 b/man5/proc_kmsg.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1486552 --- /dev/null +++ b/man5/proc_kmsg.5 @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later +.\" +.TH proc_kmsg 5 2023-08-15 "Linux man-pages 6.7" +.SH NAME +/proc/kmsg \- kernel messages +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.I /proc/kmsg +This file can be used instead of the +.BR syslog (2) +system call to read kernel messages. +A process must have superuser +privileges to read this file, and only one process should read this +file. +This file should not be read if a syslog process is running +which uses the +.BR syslog (2) +system call facility to log kernel messages. +.IP +Information in this file is retrieved with the +.BR dmesg (1) +program. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5) |