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From: Oguz Bektas <o.bektas@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pve-devel] [PATCH docs] pct: mention the new --debug flag for obtaining logs
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:16:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210224141604.957933-1-o.bektas@proxmox.com> (raw)

and make minor changes like s/ID/CTID for clarity

Signed-off-by: Oguz Bektas <o.bektas@proxmox.com>
---
 pct.adoc | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pct.adoc b/pct.adoc
index ddc16e2..c064911 100644
--- a/pct.adoc
+++ b/pct.adoc
@@ -806,17 +806,23 @@ Obtaining Debugging Logs
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 In case `pct start` is unable to start a specific container, it might be
-helpful to collect debugging output by running `lxc-start` (replace `ID` with
-the container's ID):
+helpful to collect debugging output by passing the `--debug` flag (replace `CTID` with
+the container's CTID):
 
 ----
-# lxc-start -n ID -F -l DEBUG -o /tmp/lxc-ID.log
+# pct start CTID --debug
+----
+
+or alternatively with `lxc-start` command (which will produce a log file):
+
+----
+# lxc-start -n CTID -F -l DEBUG -o /tmp/lxc-ID.log
 ----
 
 This command will attempt to start the container in foreground mode, to stop
-the container run `pct shutdown ID` or `pct stop ID` in a second terminal.
+the container run `pct shutdown CTID` or `pct stop CTID` in a second terminal.
 
-The collected debug log is written to `/tmp/lxc-ID.log`.
+The collected debug log is written to `/tmp/lxc-CTID.log`.
 
 NOTE: If you have changed the container's configuration since the last start
 attempt with `pct start`, you need to run `pct start` at least once to also
-- 
2.20.1




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