[SunHELP] dmesg

[Dale Ghent]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Shain Miley wrote:

| 
| Hi,
| I am running Solaris 8 and I need to know if there is a command that I 
| can use to display the bootup messages by the server.  I know that on 
| other unix machines the dmesg command can be used.  When I issue that 
| command now I get recent system messages.  What I am really after is the 
| memory detected and the processor speed (mhz), etc ...those kind of 
| system messages.  Thanks.

dmesg is an absolutely ancient way of figuring out your hardware.

For processors: psrinfo -v

For memory:	prtconf (or, more to the point: 'prtconf | head -2')

For lots of harware stats on Ultras (sun4u*) and Dragons (sun4d)
only: /usr/platform/`uname -m`/sbin/prtdiag -v

/dale