Retrieve F9 startup log after boot

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 09:26 -0400, Dave Feustel wrote:
> F9 displays a startup log consisting of services started
> followed by status ([invariably [OK] ). But in the middle
> are ocasionally error messages (eg from privoxy ) which
> scroll by so fast that I am unable to read them.
> 
> Is there any way to view the startup log as either a
> normal user or as root to see the error messages?
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the entire boot sequence is logged in /var/log/messages (root only
access)

Craig