How do you monitor startup messages in Ubuntu?

[Robert Holtzman]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Karl Larsen wrote:

>    If you want every detail on bootup at the time of bootup you can get
> that booting with the rescue boot in Grub just below the one your using.
> Or if you can wait a minute you can read about it later in a Terminal
> with $dmesg | more. This tells all.

If entries in the dmesg file such as:

[24017.184030] Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= 
MAC=00:1e:8c:1e:85:82:00:13:5f:03:56:f9:08:00 SRC=157.22.2.5 
DST=68.99.250.97 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=120 ID=42884 DF PROTO=TCP 
SPT=4603 DPT=5001 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0

are intelligible to you you're a better man than I.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
A fair fight is the result of poor planning.