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

[Slater, Joseph]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saul Wold [mailto:sgw at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 3:00 PM
> To: Burton, Ross; Slater, Joseph
> Cc: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] sysvinit: modify bootlog location
> 
> On 05/10/2013 02:42 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On 9 May 2013 00:03, Joe Slater <jslater at windriver.com> wrote:
> >> The default location for bootlog is volatile,
> >> so we change it to something that is not.
> >
> > If this is a problem, why not make /var/log not volatile?  I never
> > understood why the log directory was volatile to be honest.
> >
> How would we handle the Read-Only FS situation?

Maybe we could change around the creation of bootlogd.log such that,
if /var/local were not writeable, we'd stick it in /var/log.

Joe


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> Sau!
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> > Ross
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