* [PATCH 1/1] sysvinit: modify bootlog location
@ 2013-05-08 23:03 Joe Slater
2013-05-10 9:42 ` Burton, Ross
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Joe Slater @ 2013-05-08 23:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: openembedded-core
The default location for bootlog is volatile,
so we change it to something that is not.
---
meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/bootlogd.init | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/bootlogd.init b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/bootlogd.init
index f8f07a0..4422166 100755
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/bootlogd.init
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/bootlogd.init
@@ -37,6 +37,19 @@ case "$0" in
;;
esac
+# default /var/log/boot is not an option since /var/log becomes
+# /var/volatile/log
+logfile=/var/local/bootlogd.log
+
+#
+# Create initial log files
+#
+if [ ! -f "$logfile" ] && touch "$logfile" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ echo "(Nothing has been logged yet.)" >| "$logfile"
+ chown root:adm "$logfile"
+ chmod 640 "$logfile"
+fi
+
case "$ACTION" in
start)
echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
@@ -44,9 +57,9 @@ case "$ACTION" in
then
umask 027
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
- --exec $DAEMON -- -r
+ --exec $DAEMON -- -r -l $logfile
else
- $DAEMON -r
+ $DAEMON -r -l $logfile
fi
echo "$NAME."
;;
@@ -70,7 +83,7 @@ case "$ACTION" in
echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec $DAEMON
sleep 1
- start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON
+ start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- -l $logfile
echo "$NAME."
;;
*)
--
1.7.3.4
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* Re: [PATCH 1/1] sysvinit: modify bootlog location
2013-05-08 23:03 [PATCH 1/1] sysvinit: modify bootlog location Joe Slater
@ 2013-05-10 9:42 ` Burton, Ross
2013-05-10 22:00 ` Saul Wold
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Burton, Ross @ 2013-05-10 9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joe Slater; +Cc: openembedded-core
On 9 May 2013 00:03, Joe Slater <jslater@windriver.com> wrote:
> The default location for bootlog is volatile,
> so we change it to something that is not.
If this is a problem, why not make /var/log not volatile? I never
understood why the log directory was volatile to be honest.
Ross
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* Re: [PATCH 1/1] sysvinit: modify bootlog location
2013-05-10 9:42 ` Burton, Ross
@ 2013-05-10 22:00 ` Saul Wold
2013-05-13 22:36 ` Slater, Joseph
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Saul Wold @ 2013-05-10 22:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Burton, Ross, Joe Slater; +Cc: openembedded-core
On 05/10/2013 02:42 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 9 May 2013 00:03, Joe Slater <jslater@windriver.com> wrote:
>> The default location for bootlog is volatile,
>> so we change it to something that is not.
>
> If this is a problem, why not make /var/log not volatile? I never
> understood why the log directory was volatile to be honest.
>
How would we handle the Read-Only FS situation?
Sau!
> Ross
>
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* Re: [PATCH 1/1] sysvinit: modify bootlog location
2013-05-10 22:00 ` Saul Wold
@ 2013-05-13 22:36 ` Slater, Joseph
2013-05-14 3:25 ` ChenQi
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Slater, Joseph @ 2013-05-13 22:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Saul Wold, Burton, Ross; +Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saul Wold [mailto:sgw@linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 3:00 PM
> To: Burton, Ross; Slater, Joseph
> Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] sysvinit: modify bootlog location
>
> On 05/10/2013 02:42 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On 9 May 2013 00:03, Joe Slater <jslater@windriver.com> wrote:
> >> The default location for bootlog is volatile,
> >> so we change it to something that is not.
> >
> > If this is a problem, why not make /var/log not volatile? I never
> > understood why the log directory was volatile to be honest.
> >
> How would we handle the Read-Only FS situation?
Maybe we could change around the creation of bootlogd.log such that,
if /var/local were not writeable, we'd stick it in /var/log.
Joe
>
> Sau!
>
> > Ross
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Openembedded-core mailing list
> > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
> > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
> >
> >
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* Re: [PATCH 1/1] sysvinit: modify bootlog location
2013-05-13 22:36 ` Slater, Joseph
@ 2013-05-14 3:25 ` ChenQi
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: ChenQi @ 2013-05-14 3:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: openembedded-core
On 05/14/2013 06:36 AM, Slater, Joseph wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Saul Wold [mailto:sgw@linux.intel.com]
>> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 3:00 PM
>> To: Burton, Ross; Slater, Joseph
>> Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
>> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] sysvinit: modify bootlog location
>>
>> On 05/10/2013 02:42 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>>> On 9 May 2013 00:03, Joe Slater <jslater@windriver.com> wrote:
>>>> The default location for bootlog is volatile,
>>>> so we change it to something that is not.
>>> If this is a problem, why not make /var/log not volatile? I never
>>> understood why the log directory was volatile to be honest.
>>>
>> How would we handle the Read-Only FS situation?
> Maybe we could change around the creation of bootlogd.log such that,
> if /var/local were not writeable, we'd stick it in /var/log.
>
> Joe
>
Hi all,
I once wanted to make /var/log not volatile, but then I realised that
not preserving logs between reboots doesn't seem to bother any user, so
I dropped the patches and marked the bug NOTABUG.
(https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3397)
So the key problem here is, are we going to preserve logs between reboots?
If so, we can make /var/log not volatile, in the same way Laurentiu did
with /var/cache, and add the following lines to the
read-only-rootfs-hook.sh script to make things work in case of a
read-only filesystem.
mkdir -p /var/volatile/log
mount --bind /var/volatile/log /var/log
Best Regards,
Chen Qi
>> Sau!
>>
>>> Ross
>>>
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