Changeset 81b4464 in clfs-embedded

Timestamp:

Jul 17, 2017, 12:44:29 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

Andrew Bradford <andrew@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

573e70c

Parents:

e24b7ec

Message:

final-system/creatingfiles: Remove utmp, wtmp, and btmp creation

musl doesn't properly support these files and we take them out of the
busybox config when building it, so don't create the files in the first
place.

File:

• BOOK/final-system/common/creatingfiles.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

BOOK/final-system/common/creatingfiles.xml

@@ -9 +9 @@
   <?dbhtml filename="creatingfiles.html"?>
 
-  <title>Creating the passwd, group, and log Files</title>
+  <title>Creating the passwd, group, and lastlog Files</title>
 
   <indexterm zone="ch-final-system-creatingfiles">
@@ -20 +20 @@
 
   <indexterm zone="ch-final-system-creatingfiles">
-    <primary sortas="e-/var/run/utmp">/var/run/utmp</primary>
-  </indexterm>
-
-  <indexterm zone="ch-final-system-creatingfiles">
-    <primary sortas="e-/var/log/btmp">/var/log/btmp</primary>
-  </indexterm>
-
-  <indexterm zone="ch-final-system-creatingfiles">
     <primary sortas="e-/var/log/lastlog">/var/log/lastlog</primary>
-  </indexterm>
-
-  <indexterm zone="ch-final-system-creatingfiles">
-    <primary sortas="e-/var/log/wtmp">/var/log/wtmp</primary>
   </indexterm>
 
@@ -219 +207 @@
 
   <para>The <command>login</command>, <command>agetty</command>, and
-  <command>init</command> programs (and others) use a number of log
-  files to record information such as who was logged into the system and
-  when. However, these programs will not write to the log files if they
-  do not already exist. Initialize the log files and give them
+  <command>init</command> programs (and others) use the lastlog
+  file to record information such as who was logged into the system and
+  when. However, these programs will not write to the lastlog file if it
+  does not already exist. Initialize the lastlog file and give it
   proper permissions:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>touch ${CLFS}/targetfs/var/run/utmp ${CLFS}/targetfs/var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp}
-chmod -v 664 ${CLFS}/targetfs/var/run/utmp ${CLFS}/targetfs/var/log/lastlog</userinput></screen>
-
-  <para>The <filename>/var/run/utmp</filename> file records the users
-  that are currently logged in. The <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename>
-  file records all logins and logouts. The
-  <filename>/var/log/lastlog</filename> file records when
-  each user last logged in. The <filename>/var/log/btmp</filename> file
-  records the bad login attempts.</para>
+<screen><userinput>touch ${CLFS}/targetfs/var/log/lastlog
+chmod -v 664 ${CLFS}/targetfs/var/log/lastlog</userinput></screen>
 
 </sect1>