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From: ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
To: Jack Mitchell <ml@communistcode.co.uk>,
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: making /var/log persistent
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:33:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55CB2106.4070908@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55CB2008.4020101@communistcode.co.uk>

On 08/12/2015 06:29 PM, Jack Mitchell wrote:
> I'm trying to make /var/log persistent and I'm having trouble. I've 
> made a bbappend to base_files which contains:
>
> dirs755_append = " \
>         /var/log \
> "
>
> volatiles = "tmp"
>
> Looking in the resulting image, /var/log is indeed now a directory and 
> not a symlink to volatile storage, however when the image is flashed 
> to target and booted it is reverted back to being a symlink; I assume 
> by some init script?
>
> Can anyone shed any light on what more is required to get a persistent 
> log directory.
>
> Cheers,
> Jack.

I sent out a series of patches regarding this area.
The patch title is "[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] Support persistent /var/log".

Regards,
Chen Qi


      reply	other threads:[~2015-08-12 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-12 10:29 making /var/log persistent Jack Mitchell
2015-08-12 10:33 ` ChenQi [this message]

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