Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:48:21 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEWSYSLOG changes, -Create option for rc.diskless Message-ID: <20030310000219.N15648-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <p05200f18ba907f20159a@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > When looking through some /etc/rc files the other day, I noticed > that /etc/rc.diskless2 picks up entries in /etc/newsyslog.conf > and uses 'touch' to create them. With all the other changes I > have made and plan to make, this is not a good idea. In fact, it > was already a bad idea because it won't get owner, group, or > permissions set right. > > I have an update in: > http://people.freebsd.org/~gad/newsyslog/create-opt.diff > > which implements a '-C' option for newyslog. Once this is > committed, /etc/rc.diskless2 should be changed to use it. The > update also adds a a 'C' flag for the config file entries, to > match an option that NetBSD has. > > Please pay close attention to the new createlog() routine, as a > later update will switch to using that for all logfile creations. > My goal was to eliminate all windows in the create of a new log > file. This (once I do it) should complete the job started in > revision 1.41 (committed in april 2002). mtree(8) should be used to control the original files. The original set of files very little to do with newsyslog. It has more to do with syslogd, but it's normal for both syslog.conf and newsyslog.conf to have default rules for files that don't exist, with the actual creation done manually. Manual creation is too hard to do for diskless mounts, so we need a database, and mtree(8) handles this perfectly: %%% Script started on Mon Mar 10 00:18:22 2003 ttyp0:root@besplex:/tmp> cat /etc/mtree/BSD.log.dist # $FreeBSD$ # # Please see the file src/etc/mtree/README before making changes to this file. # /set type=file uname=root gname=wheel mode=0644 . type=dir mode=0755 auth.log mode=0600 cron mode=0600 lastlog lpd-errs maillog mode=0640 messages ppp.log gname=network mode=0640 security mode=0600 slip.log gname=network mode=0640 wtmp xferlog mode=0600 .. ttyp0:root@besplex:/tmp> mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.log.dist -p /var/log sendmail.st extra setuid.today extra setuid.yesterday extra mount.today extra mount.yesterday extra cron.0.gz extra messages.0.gz extra console.log extra messages.1.gz extra messages.2.gz extra messages.3.gz extra messages.4.gz extra ppp.log.0.gz extra connect-errors extra console.log.0.gz extra ttyp0:root@besplex:/tmp> exit Script done on Mon Mar 10 00:19:20 2003 %%% I created the database using mergemaster to an empty tree. This uses mainly src/etc/Makefile. The Makefile should use a database too, and at least the customized version of the database should have a few more files so that there are no "extras" except .gz's. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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