Bootscripts: creating new /var/run/utmp doesn't work

[gimli@…]

Hello

I've been testing the 1.1 bootscripts. So far so good! Except for a couple of typos "Clearning -> Clearing" :-)

One thing that puzzled me slightly was this part of cleanfs

echo -n "Creating new /var/run/utmp..." touch /var/run/utmp && chmod 644 /var/run/utmp evaluate_retval

That won't achieve anything will it? I don't see the point. Was the intention to start a fresh utmp file every reboot? If so then methinks it is missing a "rm -f /var/run/utmp".

Greg

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This only updates the "modified" time of /var/run/utmp. It's better to use

echo -n "" >/ver/run/utmp

instead

[gerard@…]

Just for the record: as discussed in on the mailinglist already: cleanfs script removes /var/run/* so utmp is removed, then re-created with the touch command.

[gerard@…]

Just gonna fix the typo

[gerard@…]

it's fixed, but new lfs-bootscripts tarball not uploaded yet. I'll do so when the other bugs pertaining bootscripts are taken care of too and make it one update rather than 3 small updates.

[markh@…]

confirmed