NAME¶
rtas_dump - dump the contents of an RTAS event.
SYNOPSIS¶
/usr/sbin/rtas_dump [ options ]
DESCRIPTION¶
The
rtas_dump icommand is used to dump the contents of an RTAS event into
a human readable form. The tool is able to parse the contents of
/var/log/messages, /var/log/platform and /var/log/boot.msg to extract dump the
contents of RTAS events. RTAS events can also be read in from a specified file
or stdin. The real work of de-coding RTAS events is handled by
/usr/sbin/rtas_event_decode, the rtas_dump command simply parses the
input and files and passes on the data to
rtas_event_decode.
OPTIONS¶
- -d
- debug flag, passed through to rtas_event_decode
- -f file
- dump the RTAS event(s) from file
- -h
- print the usage message and exit
- -n num
- Only dump RTAS event number num
- -v
- dump the entire contents of the RTAS event(s), not just the
header
- -w
- set the output character width
AUTHOR¶
Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>