Author: David Landgren 
Email: David.LANDGREN@oecd.org 
Date: Mon Dec 22, 1997
Question: How do I view the boot messages/errors that scrolled by?

Q. I want to (re)read the messages that are displayed when Linux boots,
but it runs by too fast for me! What do I do?

You can redisplay the output of the boot phase by one of

	cat /var/log/dmesg
or
	dmesg

Depending on how your system logging is configured, additional
information of interest may be in another file, such as /var/log/kernel.
After rebooting, you may want to list the most recently modified files.

	ls -lt /var/log | head -20

You may then cat(1) these files at your leisure.

Note that many files in the /var/log directory are readable only by
root. It is extremely unwise, from a security point of view, to relax
the permissions to let anyone look at them.

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