Excuse me for my n00bish question, I always have tried the command: dmesg | mail -s "old p5 rescued from the dump" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But it always seem like it doesn't work and that I am suppose to set-up sendmail first? So I ended up copy the dmesg stuff and send it in my own e-mail client later, which may not always be the best thing to do. Has any had a similar experience before? 2007/10/16, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I would like to remind people that we all benefit greatly whenever our > users send copies of their systems's boot messages to our archive. > > Please do not send MIME encoded mail. Please do not send messages > which have been line-wrapped. Messages which are in plain-text are > easier for our developers to grep and search through. > > The best way to send the messages is by doing this directly on the > machine in question: > > dmesg | mail -s "old p5 rescued from the dump" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > A clear subject helps us know what the machine is (as developers we > continue to try to include more detailed BIOS information in the dmesg > output, but you as users can help us even more by providing other > details). > > If at all possible, it is best if the dmesg is from a standard project > compiled GENERIC, GENERIC.MP, or RAMDISK kernel of some kind, perhaps > with subsystems like acpi enabled if need be. This is just so that we > have less variables to deal with. > > If you feel like it, you can also include other information before the > dmesg, such as sensor output, or a commentary on things that work or > don't work on the machine. > > The archive is only ever read by developers, so the secrets about your > hardware are safe. We don't promise that your submission will improve > our support, but it definately gives us a feeling as to what types of > hardware are more urgently needing support in our community. > > Thanks a lot. > > -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
