howto log services startup message?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 20:48 -0700, yeti_hym wrote:
> Is there a way to save the services startup message to a log file? I get
> xxxxx [failed] items sometimes, but the message quick goes away and I can't
> catch it.
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already done - as root, look at /var/log/messages and all services
should log there but depending upon the service and the problem this may
be enough.

Craig