[Linux-disciples] What does this mean? (fwd)

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>>dmesg only shows an endless row of Inbound IN=eth0 etc. etc.
> You could do something like
> dmesg |grep 'Inbound IN=eth0' |wc -l
> to see precisely how many there are. But in any case, I'd
> say that this is overlogging.

dmesg doesn't keep an infinite log, though. Earlier messages fall off
the stack as later ones come in. You might check if the same messages
are also going to /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages and you could do
the grep command above on that file to actually see how many messages
you're getting.
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