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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-01-24 00:45:11 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-01-24 00:46:37 +0100
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services: Create /var/log/wtmp upon activation.
This fixes a bug whereby /var/log/wtmp would never be created, and thus accounting information would be lost. * gnu/services.scm (activation-script): Create /var/log/wtmp. * gnu/tests/base.scm (run-basic-test)["wtmp entry"]: New test.
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@@ -345,6 +345,10 @@ ACTIVATION-SCRIPT-TYPE."
;; thus there is no accounting at all.
(close-port (open-file "/var/run/utmpx" "a0"))
+ ;; Same for 'wtmp', which is populated by mingetty et
+ ;; al.
+ (close-port (open-file "/var/log/wtmp" "a0"))
+
;; Set up /run/current-system. Among other things this
;; sets up locales, which the activation snippets
;; executed below may expect.