1.4. Troubleshooting Directory Services
1.4.1. Directory Services Debug Logs
When you're trying to troubleshoot issues with Directory Services on Mac OS X sometimes the best thing you can do is put the directoryservices daemon into debug mode. To do so, we must send a USR1 signal to the daemon using the following command:
killall -USR1 DirectoryService
By default errors get trapped into this file:
/Library/Logs/DirectoryService/DirectoryService.error.log
But when in debug mode using -USR1, you can see more specific errors here:
/Library/Logs/DirectoryService/DirectoryService.debug.log
You can then use commands such as tail and more in conjunction with grep to isolate issues to specific strings such as ADPlugin. Alternatively, you can enable ...
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