[Buildroot] systemd and journald

[Eric Le Bihan]

Hi!

Le Sun, 22 May 2016 14:41:40 +0200,
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> a écrit :

> So, because our /var/log is a symlink to /tmp , the journal is
> correctly created
> in /tmp/journal/c30ad28b21d444ba9fff7fb25b5454b1/system.journal but
> since another filesystem is mounted over it later, it is no longer
> accessible, so journalctl does not find it.
> 
> I'm not sure where to go forward rom there, but it looks like our
> skeleton is wrong when the init system is systemd.

I haven't played with a systemd-based setup for a while, but I used to fix this with a post-build script [1]. 

There was also a discussion some times ago about the need for a skeleton package per init system [2].

[1] https://github.com/elebihan/buildroot-ext-elb/blob/master/overlays/base-systemd/post-build.sh
[2] http://buildroot-busybox.2317881.n4.nabble.com/How-to-provide-one-default-skeleton-per-init-system-td72124.html

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