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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2017-01-24 00:45:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2017-01-24 00:46:37 +0100 |
| commit | 2986995b85e76f12741fcdda8dd0e1a636620dec (patch) | |
| tree | e7d55a20163edad515c6fbd199cddc17a8287ee9 /gnu/services.scm | |
| parent | 3483f004a98f103acff96effe1309cc620372e79 (diff) | |
| download | patches-2986995b85e76f12741fcdda8dd0e1a636620dec.tar patches-2986995b85e76f12741fcdda8dd0e1a636620dec.tar.gz | |
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/services.scm')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/services.scm | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services.scm b/gnu/services.scm index f72d4d5785..e645889d30 100644 --- a/gnu/services.scm +++ b/gnu/services.scm @@ -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. |