Dumb question - boot messages go where?

[Legion]

Not dmesg output - but after that on the VGA console I get the console pfSense logo, and something similar to "Welcome to pfSense 2.x", then a bunch of services starting messages (and occasionally errors when I have a bad config). Are all those messages cached somewhere? Where?

[wallabybob]

See Status -> System Logs and click on appropriate tab.

[Legion]

Thanks wallabybob. I thought all that stuff might get put in a single log file somewhere and I kind of prefer the command line (unless the file is overwhelmingly large) but the system logs will be good enough I guess.

[tim.mcmanus]

/var/log

Everything you need should be in there.  You'll need to use the 'clog' command to view the logs.

[jimp]

Boot messages only are in /var/log/dmesg.boot

That one is actually in plain text format. No need for clog on that one.

Beyond that, clog /var/log/system.log

There is some console output that does not get logged anywhere, no way to capture that unless you're recording it over serial console.