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SSSD supports two representations for specifying the debug level. The

simplest is to specify a decimal value from 0-9, which represents

enabling that level and all lower-level debug messages. The more

comprehensive option is to specify a hexadecimal bitmask to enable or

disable specific levels (such as if you wish to suppress a level).

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Currently supported debug levels:

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<emphasis>0</emphasis>,

<emphasis>0x0010</emphasis>:

Fatal failures. Anything that would prevent SSSD from starting up or

causes it to cease running.

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<emphasis>1</emphasis>,

<emphasis>0x0020</emphasis>:

Critical failures. An error that doesn't kill the SSSD, but one that

indicates that at least one major feature is not going to work

properly.

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<emphasis>2</emphasis>,

<emphasis>0x0040</emphasis>: Serious failures. An error announcing

that a particular request or operation has failed.

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<emphasis>3</emphasis>,

<emphasis>0x0080</emphasis>: Minor failures. These are the errors that

would percolate down to cause the operation failure of 2.

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<emphasis>4</emphasis>,

<emphasis>0x0100</emphasis>: Configuration settings.

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<emphasis>5</emphasis>,

<emphasis>0x0200</emphasis>: Function data.

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<emphasis>6</emphasis>,

<emphasis>0x0400</emphasis>: Trace messages for operation functions.

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<emphasis>7</emphasis>,

<emphasis>0x1000</emphasis>: Trace messages for internal control

functions.

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<emphasis>8</emphasis>,

<emphasis>0x2000</emphasis>: Contents of function-internal variables

that may be interesting.

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<emphasis>9</emphasis>,

<emphasis>0x4000</emphasis>: Extremely low-level tracing information.

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To log required bitmask debug levels, simply add their numbers together

as shown in following examples:

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<para>

<emphasis>Example</emphasis>: To log fatal failures, critical failures,

serious failures and function data use 0x0270.

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<emphasis>Example</emphasis>: To log fatal failures, configuration

settings, function data, trace messages for internal control functions

use 0x1310.

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<emphasis>Note</emphasis>: The bitmask format of debug levels was

introduced in 1.7.0.

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<emphasis>Default</emphasis>: 0

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