On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:46 AM, James Hogarth james.hogarth@gmail.com wrote:
4.) Debugging. Why is my unit not starting when I can start it from the command line? Once I figured out journalctl it was a bit easier, and typically it was SELinux, but no longer being able to just run 'bash -x /etc/rc.d/init.d/foobar' was frustrating. sytemd disables core dumps on services by default (at least it did on Fedora, the documentation now says it's on by default. Huh. I should test that...)
Jon as a heads up this isn't a systemd/el7 thing necessarily...
Look at the daemon function in /etc/init.d/functions that most standard EL init scripts will be using...
Core files have been disabled on things started with that by default (need to export a variable in the environment of the script usually via sysconfig) the whole of el6 ...
Is there a simple generic equivalent to: sh -x /etc/rc.d/init.d/program_name start to see how configurations options that are abstracted out of the main files are being picked up and expanded?