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Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb

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On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 11:00:46PM +0100, Lorenzo wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 21:00:41 +0000
> Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> wrote:
> 
> For the boot entry I can just remove the wtmpdb call in stage 1; for the
> shutdown entry in runit, is implemented as "halt -w[1]" in shutdown.c
> that is called by umountnfs.sh in runlevel 0 or 6, and it's not obvious
> to me how to prevent a double shutdown entry here.
> maybe the sysv script can be a no-op when runit is init?
> 
> [ -f  /run/runit.stopit ] && exit 0
> 
> better ideas are welcome; when I added the code to runit I didn't think
> a sysv script was going to be accepted in the wtmpdb package.

What about /etc/runit/override-sysv.d?

> [1] by the way, what's the plan for 'halt -w' in SysV 's shutdown
> implementation?

No idea, hoping the experts on this mailing list will chime in! :-)

However, since umountnfs.sh is an initscript that won't be used from
systemd, it seems to me that this would be the place to call wtmpdb,
instead of going via the halt command. That then makes this a
co-ordination question between this initscript and the wtmpdb one? We
might find out that the call is redundant from umountnfs.sh if we have
the wtmpdb initscript.

But in the case of sysvinit, it still records classic wtmp. It could
simply continue to do so. That might be useful in an ultra low footprint
scenario where some minimal audit capability is required - the use case
where my proposed sysvinit-utmp-utils subpackage would be useful.

By the way, killing plymouth lets this script start in S runlevel in
single user mode, but it also means double entries for every boot. I
don't know why. I think perhaps we could start with runlevel 1+ and then
iterate the initscript if we find we can improve on this?

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Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2025-02-01 14:40 +0100
  Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2025-02-01 18:00 +0100
    Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2025-02-01 21:30 +0100
      Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2025-02-01 21:40 +0100
        Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2025-02-01 21:50 +0100
        Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2025-02-02 17:30 +0100
          Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2025-02-02 20:30 +0100
            Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org> - 2025-02-02 20:50 +0100
              Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2025-02-02 22:10 +0100
                Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org> - 2025-02-02 23:10 +0100
                Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2025-02-02 23:30 +0100
                Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org> - 2025-02-03 00:00 +0100
                Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2025-02-08 00:40 +0100
                Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org> - 2025-02-08 01:40 +0100
          Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2025-02-03 10:10 +0100
            Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2025-02-03 10:30 +0100
      Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2025-02-01 23:20 +0100
      Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2025-02-02 02:30 +0100
        Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2025-02-03 10:10 +0100

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