[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] sysvinit: modify bootlog location

Joe Slater jslater at windriver.com
Wed May 8 23:03:58 UTC 2013


The default location for bootlog is volatile,
so we change it to something that is not.
---
 meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/bootlogd.init |   19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/bootlogd.init b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/bootlogd.init
index f8f07a0..4422166 100755
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/bootlogd.init
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/bootlogd.init
@@ -37,6 +37,19 @@ case "$0" in
 		;;
 esac
 
+# default /var/log/boot is not an option since /var/log becomes
+# /var/volatile/log
+logfile=/var/local/bootlogd.log
+
+#
+# Create initial log files
+#
+if [ ! -f "$logfile" ] && touch "$logfile" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+	echo "(Nothing has been logged yet.)" >| "$logfile"
+	chown root:adm "$logfile"
+	chmod 640 "$logfile"
+fi
+
 case "$ACTION" in
 	start)
 		echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
@@ -44,9 +57,9 @@ case "$ACTION" in
 		then
 			umask 027
 			start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
-				--exec $DAEMON -- -r
+				--exec $DAEMON -- -r -l $logfile
 		else
-			$DAEMON -r
+			$DAEMON -r -l $logfile
 		fi
 		echo "$NAME."
 		;;
@@ -70,7 +83,7 @@ case "$ACTION" in
 		echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
 		start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec $DAEMON
 		sleep 1
-		start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON
+		start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- -l $logfile
 		echo "$NAME."
 		;;
 	*)
-- 
1.7.3.4





More information about the Openembedded-core mailing list