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Fix some formatting botches
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ferricoxide committed Jun 21, 2023
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Typically, the provisioning-administrator will wish to review this file to trace where failures in the invocation of watchmaker have failed or where errors in an instance's/VM's userData payload has encountered errors.

- Search, case-insensitively, for the string `watchmaker` to find logged-content explicit to the execution of watchmaker. Depending how far watchmaker got before failing, there can be a significant amount of output to pore through (recommend piping to a pagination-tool such as `less`)
- Search for the string `\ cloud-init:\ ' to find logged-content related to the `cloud-init` service. This search-string will reveal execution-output made to STDOUT and STDERR by any processes initiated by the `cloud-init` service. This will _typically_ include watchmaker and any logging-enabled userData script-output. Search output will tend to be even more-significant than looking just for `watchmaker` (therefore, also recommend piping to a pagination-tool such as `less`)
- Search, case-insensitively, for the string "`watchmaker`" to find logged-content explicit to the execution of watchmaker. Depending how far watchmaker got before failing, there can be a significant amount of output to pore through (recommend piping to a pagination-tool such as `less`)
- Search for the string "`\ cloud-init:\ `" to find logged-content related to the `cloud-init` service. This search-string will reveal execution-output made to STDOUT and STDERR by any processes initiated by the `cloud-init` service. This will _typically_ include watchmaker and any logging-enabled userData script-output. Search output will tend to be even more-significant than looking just for `watchmaker` (therefore, also recommend piping to a pagination-tool such as `less`)

The use of the qualifier, "typically", in the prior bullet is required to account for different methods for invoking `watchmaker`. Some `watchmaker`-users leverage methods such as CloudFormation and other templating-engines, Ansible and other externalized provisioning-services, etc. to launch the `watchmaker` process. Those methods are outside the scope of this document. The relevant logging should be known to the user of these alternate execution-frameworks.

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