Can someone explain the output from lsusb here?

Siggy Brentrup winnegan.ubuntu at ewetel.net
Fri Jul 3 17:11:27 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 06:26:45PM +0200, PleegWat wrote:
> Fred Roller wrote:
[...]
> > Watch the logs live while you try plugging the devices in.
> > i.e.
> > watch "dmesg |tail -n 20"
[...]
> > watch "tail -n 20 /var/log/[somelog]"
> 
> Rather than `watch "tail ..."` I'd suggest `tail -f ...`, especially on 
> a terminal with scrollback. The -f flag causes tail to follow the file 
> as it grows. There doesn't seem to be a similar flag on dmesg though.

How about good old "/usr/bin/less", works even on terminals w/o scrollback.
Just try
  less -S +F <path to logfile>

Regards
  Siggy

ps: Hi all, this is my first message to this list.

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