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authorChristopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>2017-02-23 08:20:57 +0000
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-03-10 14:48:06 +0100
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parent82ccc499f7262982beb2da9827d5706967a334f0 (diff)
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services: Create /var/log upon activation.
When launching a container created with guix system container, the attempt to create /var/log/wtmp would fail, as /var/log did not exist. * gnu/services.scm (activation-script): Create /var/log Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
-rw-r--r--gnu/services.scm7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services.scm b/gnu/services.scm
index 6ac4f1322d..6c88f2621b 100644
--- a/gnu/services.scm
+++ b/gnu/services.scm
@@ -334,9 +334,11 @@ ACTIVATION-SCRIPT-TYPE."
(mlet* %store-monad ((actions (service-activations)))
(gexp->file "activate"
(with-imported-modules (source-module-closure
- '((gnu build activation)))
+ '((gnu build activation)
+ (guix build utils)))
#~(begin
- (use-modules (gnu build activation))
+ (use-modules (gnu build activation)
+ (guix build utils))
;; Make sure the user accounting database exists. If it
;; does not exist, 'setutxent' does not create it and
@@ -345,6 +347,7 @@ ACTIVATION-SCRIPT-TYPE."
;; Same for 'wtmp', which is populated by mingetty et
;; al.
+ (mkdir-p "/var/log")
(close-port (open-file "/var/log/wtmp" "a0"))
;; Set up /run/current-system. Among other things this