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dmesg: link together with syslog(2) manual page 

The dmesg may require capabilities(7) when /proc/sys/kernel/dmesg_restrict
has none zero value.  This is explained in detail in syslog(2) manual page.

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
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Sami Kerola 2018-04-26 21:44:08 +01:00 committed by Karel Zak
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@ -228,7 +228,13 @@ The text of the message with the warning log priority.
.TP
.B segfault
The text of the message that inform about segmentation fault.
.SH EXIT STATUS
.B dmesg
can fail reporting permission denied error. This is usually caused by
.B dmesg_restrict
kernel setting, please see
.BR syslog (2)
for more details.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR terminal-colors.d (5),
.BR syslogd (8)