[launchd-dev] launchd and syslog.conf

[Kevin Van Vechten]

There are two pieces to the puzzle.  The first step, as you've already  
found, is to appropriately adjust the syslog filters (remember to  
`killall -HUP syslogd` to reload the config files).  The second step  
is to instruct launchd to emit more log messages:

$ sudo launchctl log level debug
assuming you want to adjust the log level of the system wide launchd, or
$ launchctl log level debug
to get information out of the per-user launchd.

If you want the information from early boot, you can put the `log  
level debug` command into /etc/launchctl.conf.

Kevin

Kevin

On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:55 AM, Jonathan del Strother wrote:

> Heya,
> I had a bit of a nightmare this morning trying to get logging
> information out of launchd.  Apple's advice is to add 'launchd.*
> /var/log/launchd.log' to the /etc/syslog.conf file.  As far as I can
> tell, this doesn't have any effect, and 'launchd' isn't listed as one
> of the facilities (auth, authpriv, cron...) mentioned in the
> syslog.conf manpage.
>
> I finally got some output by adding '*.debug /var/log/debug.log' to
> syslog.conf, but it would be great if I could narrow that down some
> more.  Any hints?
>
> Jonathan del Strother