Bug 289849 – sys-apps/openrc-0.5.x cleans wtmp on every boot

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jan Psota 2009-10-20 10:16:39 UTC]

I think that this behavior is dangerous and it's only bootmisc typo:
-               [ -e /var/log/wtmp ] && mkutmp /var/log/wtmp
+               [ -e /var/log/wtmp ] || mkutmp /var/log/wtmp
Patch follows.

Is there a special program, that searches filesystem looking for wtmp records?
I had no backup... :-/

[Comment 1 Jan Psota 2009-10-20 10:18:06 UTC]

Created attachment 207654 [details, diff]
patch not to clean wtmp on every bootup

[Comment 2 Giacomo Perale 2009-10-25 22:19:40 UTC]

Can we please fix this disgraceful bug? OpenRC destroyed my more than 6 years old wtmp and I'm royally pissed off...

[Comment 3 William Hubbs 2009-10-26 18:20:46 UTC]

Roy,

is openrc supposed to wipe this file on every reboot or is this a typo?

Thanks,

William

[Comment 4 William Hubbs 2009-10-29 02:15:45 UTC]

Created attachment 208600 [details]
0001-Don-t-wipe-wtmp.patch

This version of the patch can be applied using git am.

This is a regression that was introduced between 0.4.3 and 0.5.1.

Thanks,

William

[Comment 5 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) 2009-11-01 14:10:54 UTC]

can we please add files/9999/0003-dont-wipe-wtmp.patch to files/0.5.2/ as well?

[Comment 6 Roy Marples 2009-11-10 20:11:27 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=207654) [details]
> patch not to clean wtmp on every bootup
> 

http://roy.marples.name/projects/openrc/changeset/ebb49805fca3d53b02c3eaa992e4bed49eca365c

Thanks!

[Comment 7 Jan Psota 2009-11-10 20:15:04 UTC]

You are welcome :-)

[Comment 8 William Hubbs 2009-11-10 20:36:50 UTC]

This has been fixed upstream.