Changeset b6f86141

Timestamp:

01/14/2004 01:34:43 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Greg Schafer <greg@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

e4d88a56

Parents:

aba5bfb

Message:

Moved log file creation from Shadow to "Creating the passwd
and group files" and renamed that section accordingly.
Closes 741.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3166 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/chapter06.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• chapter06/shadowpwd.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -50 +50 @@
 </itemizedlist>
 </listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>January 13th, 2004 [greg]: Moved log file creation from Shadow
+to "Creating the passwd and group files" and renamed that section accordingly.
+Closes 741.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>January 13th, 2004 [greg]: Upgraded to Automake-1.8.2, Kbd-1.11

chapter06/chapter06.xml

@@ -223 +223 @@
 
 <sect1 id="ch06-pwdgroup">
-<title>Creating the passwd and group files</title>
+<title>Creating the passwd, group and log files</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="pwdgroup.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
@@ -279 +279 @@
 they are installed, we turn off this function for the duration of this
 chapter.</para>
+
+<para>The <userinput>login</userinput>, <userinput>agetty</userinput> and
+<userinput>init</userinput> programs (and some others) use a number of log
+files to record information such as who was logged into the system and when.
+These programs, however, won't write to the log files if they don't already
+exist. Initialize the log files and give them their proper permissions:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp}
+chmod 644 /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp}</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 for
+each user when he or she last logged in. The <filename>/var/log/btmp</filename>
+file records the bad login attempts.</para>
 
 </sect1>

chapter06/shadowpwd.xml

@@ -16 +16 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of Shadow</title>
-
-<para>The <userinput>login</userinput>, <userinput>getty</userinput> and
-<userinput>init</userinput> programs (and some others) maintain a number
-of logfiles to record who are and who were logged in to the system.  These
-programs, however, don't create these logfiles when they don't exist, so if
-you want this logging to occur you will have to create the files yourself.
-The Shadow package needs to detect these files in their proper place, so we
-create them now, with their proper permissions:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp}
-chmod 644 /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp}</userinput></screen>
-
-<para>The <filename>/var/run/utmp</filename> file lists the users that are
-currently logged in, the <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> file who
-<emphasis>were</emphasis> logged in and when.
-The <filename>/var/log/lastlog</filename> file shows for each user when he
-or she last logged in, and the <filename>/var/log/btmp</filename> lists the
-bad login attempts.</para>
 
 <para>Shadow hard-wires the path to the <userinput>passwd</userinput> binary