Bad advice.
No explanation.
This is bad advice to give someone with lesser knowledge.
Serious I swear it must be a paradigm where the ADMIN always want to keep he/her grip on everything.
How can you live with yourself *NOT* sharing the reasoning and motives and knowledge behind your on liner.
*gag* *retch*
Drew, BTW. In Debian (which you are using) /var/log/kern.log stores to last boot messages, more than dmesg gives usually.
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