Hello again, I fixed the empty log-file. Here are the updated patches. The problem was this line: >+ "--nodaemonize" "-p" "/var" "--fpm-config" When --nodaemonize is set, the log is printed to stdout instead. I also removed -p "/var". It is not required when the log, pid and socket locations are defined in the config. Both were caused, because I didn't use pid-files from the start. Happy Hacking!