Smallstep

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When run in foreground, step-ca by default logs to stderr/stdout, so unless you still have the shell open, you won’t see any logging anywhere.

But, when you configure step to run as a daemon, systemd-journald will take care of saving logs, which you’ll be able to follow along by running:

journalctl -f --unit=step-ca

By default, smallstep doesn’t have debugging enabled, to do so, you have to set an environment variable before starting it.

export STEPDEBUG=1