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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-01-19 23:42:20 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-01-19 23:45:11 +0100
commitcaa7816673ba110d2192c2f4a8b985a475aa08a2 (patch)
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parent150309726f221c9b982e594466d35f5b895391d5 (diff)
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services: Create /var/run/utmpx upon activation.
This fixes a bug whereby /var/run/utmpx would never be created, and thus accounting information would be missing. * gnu/services.scm (activation-script): Create /var/run/utmpx. * gnu/tests/base.scm (run-basic-test)["utmpx entry"]: New test.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r--gnu/services.scm7
-rw-r--r--gnu/tests/base.scm22
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services.scm b/gnu/services.scm
index 4020fd37e0..f72d4d5785 100644
--- a/gnu/services.scm
+++ b/gnu/services.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016, 2017 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2016 Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@@ -340,6 +340,11 @@ ACTIVATION-SCRIPT-TYPE."
(activate-/bin/sh
(string-append #$(canonical-package bash) "/bin/sh"))
+ ;; Make sure the user accounting database exists. If it
+ ;; does not exist, 'setutxent' does not create it and
+ ;; thus there is no accounting at all.
+ (close-port (open-file "/var/run/utmpx" "a0"))
+
;; Set up /run/current-system. Among other things this
;; sets up locales, which the activation snippets
;; executed below may expect.
diff --git a/gnu/tests/base.scm b/gnu/tests/base.scm
index 6370d6951b..2687a6cdb8 100644
--- a/gnu/tests/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/tests/base.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -78,9 +78,11 @@ passed a gexp denoting the marionette, and it must return gexp that is
inserted before the first test. This is used to introduce an extra
initialization step, such as entering a LUKS passphrase."
(define test
- (with-imported-modules '((gnu build marionette))
+ (with-imported-modules '((gnu build marionette)
+ (guix build syscalls))
#~(begin
(use-modules (gnu build marionette)
+ (guix build syscalls)
(srfi srfi-1)
(srfi srfi-26)
(srfi srfi-64)
@@ -176,6 +178,22 @@ info --version")
(apply throw args)))))
marionette)))
+ ;; There should be one utmpx entry for the user logged in on tty1.
+ (test-equal "utmpx entry"
+ '(("root" "tty1" #f))
+ (marionette-eval
+ '(begin
+ (use-modules (guix build syscalls)
+ (srfi srfi-1))
+
+ (filter-map (lambda (entry)
+ (and (equal? (login-type USER_PROCESS)
+ (utmpx-login-type entry))
+ (list (utmpx-user entry) (utmpx-line entry)
+ (utmpx-host entry))))
+ (utmpx-entries)))
+ marionette))
+
(test-assert "host name resolution"
(match (marionette-eval
'(begin