Retrieve F9 startup log after boot

[Dave Feustel]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 03:43:49PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 07:34 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > 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?
> > ----
> > the entire boot sequence is logged in /var/log/messages (root only
> > access)
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> No they are not. The results of demsg is not found there, neither are
> the results of starting init.d services.At least I can't find them.

Examining /var/log/messages as root, I found an additional clue as to
what the problem with privoxy is. (SELinux is interfering with privoxy).

Thanks for the tip!