Verbose!

Posted Sep 12, 2025 17:54 UTC (Fri) by docontra (guest, #153758)
In reply to: Verbose! by jkingweb
Parent article: Highlights from systemd v258: part one

I literally had need/intense want for this literally yesterday[a]. All that's missing is something like systemctl strace <something>.service to launch an executable unit under strace without forking (or some excellent logs regarding failures due to unit hardening[a]) and I'd be ecstatic.

[a]: I'm doing a flag-day migration of custom-written services and decided to take this somewhat unique opportunity to apply most recommendations from systemd-analyze security. Debugging issues with services failing before/just after startup was not fun (among some pearls, ProtectSystem=strict drops executable permissions from – at least – directories not in PATH, which must(?) be compensated with ExecPaths)