i'm running current as off 10/3 on PWS 500au. when i
upgraded to -current, i no longer see the output of
dmesg in /var/run/dmesg.boot.

# grep dmesg /etc/defaults/rc.conf
dmesg=YES               dmesg_flags=""          #
write /var/run/dmesg.boot

that shows that the flag is set in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf

and i've not override it in 
# grep dmesg /etc/rc.conf
#

the file does exist in
# ls /etc/rc.d/dmesg
/etc/rc.d/dmesg

# cat /etc/rc.d/dmesg
#!/bin/sh
#
# $NetBSD: dmesg,v 1.3.4.2 2000/10/02 01:09:23 lukem
Exp $
#

# PROVIDE: dmesg
# REQUIRE: mountcritremote

. /etc/rc.subr

name="dmesg"
rcvar=$name
start_cmd="do_dmesg"
stop_cmd=":"

do_dmesg()
{
        rm -f /var/run/dmesg.boot
        dmesg $dmesg_flags > /var/run/dmesg.boot
}

load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "$1"
#

if i run the command manually:

dmesg $dmesg_flags > /var/run/dmesg.boot

then it shows up in /var/run/


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