I am new to MacOS and I would like to get a better of view of what's going on with a system process when my computer is starting up. I can see in the log that a process is changing settings, but the log doesn't say how.
I am thinking that by setting the log level to debug, the syslog will capture more information about what the process is doing. If I run sudo syslog -c SystemUIServer -d to increase the log level, the setting does not get saved when I reboot my computer.
I read here that it is possible to change the setting permanently somewhere in the .plist file for syslogd, but I don't understand how.
Can someone tell me the settings to permanently raise the log level for a specific process to get more information from the log file?
Edit:
In the /system/library/launchdaemons directory, I added the code below to a .plist file for one of the system services and it made my computer unbootable.
<key>WaitForDebugger</key>
<true/>
<key>Debug</key>
<true/>
When I got my system running again with a backup of the original .plist file, the console logs showed the process wouldn't load because launchd was waiting for debugger. The Debug logging key seems to be different from running a 'Debugger' program ?? I really don't know. I'm still looking for a solution and would appreciate any advice.
