Re: How to debug why a service doesn't want to start.

* Charles M. Gerungan <[email protected]>:
> When I run this from the shell, I'm getting a nice, expected, silence. When letting 
> runit supervise this service, it stays down. Nothing gets logged to the log service, 
> and the log service is running (as indicated by the increasing time when doing sv 
> status). `ps wwaux` shows me all dots after runsvdir -P /service log.

Try attaching truss to the runsv monitoring this service (with an
option to follow forks). This should give you an overview of
system calls called by the script.

This is usually enough to find out what caused the problem.