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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2017-01-19 23:42:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2017-01-19 23:45:11 +0100 |
| commit | caa7816673ba110d2192c2f4a8b985a475aa08a2 (patch) | |
| tree | bd0ca671c45e34091a687610b0b2f65f48c3c7d9 /gnu/services.scm | |
| parent | 150309726f221c9b982e594466d35f5b895391d5 (diff) | |
| download | patches-caa7816673ba110d2192c2f4a8b985a475aa08a2.tar patches-caa7816673ba110d2192c2f4a8b985a475aa08a2.tar.gz | |
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/services.scm')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/services.scm | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 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. |