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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!meta title="dmesg, kernel logs"]]
+
+There is no `dmesg` command, since the kernel does not keep a buffer of its
+messages. syslog however dumps them into `/var/log/dmesg`, so you can simply cat
+that.