{"id":2115,"date":"2013-10-01T08:18:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T12:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2013-10-01T08:18:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T12:18:27","slug":"always-use-verbose-output-when-troubleshooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2115","title":{"rendered":"always use verbose output when troubleshooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my eBook, <a href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/content\/col11350\">Debugging and Supporting Software Systems<\/a>, I wrote about several aspects of submitting good bug reports and support ticket, how to communicate, and more.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re ever troubleshooting a problem, it is universally helpful to enable the most verbose output possible in logging (stdout, stderr, and log files). You may not want it on all the time &#8211; but when there are issues, it&#8217;s vital.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s especially helpful if, as a group, you are involved in a <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2011\/09\/15\/the-ticket-smash-raw-metrics-and-communication-how-to-have-a-successful-support-organization\/#.UknNl4aqm3I\">ticket smash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Verbose output saved me just this week in seeing that a <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2012\/02\/27\/binding-your-mounts\/#.UknOFoaqm3I\">bind mount<\/a> I\u00a0<em>thought<\/em> was working properly was not (and causing an entire install to fail).<br \/>\nThanks, &#8211;verbose \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my eBook, Debugging and Supporting Software Systems, I wrote about several aspects of submitting good bug reports and support ticket, how to communicate, and more. If you&#8217;re ever troubleshooting a problem, it is universally helpful to enable the most verbose output possible in logging (stdout, stderr, and log files). You may not want it &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2115\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">always use verbose output when troubleshooting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[162,241,738,788],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-career","tag-diagnostics","tag-support-2","tag-troubleshooting"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}