On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 12:54:54AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Eurgh. Very colourful, slow even on the work laptop from 2025 > (not just the private laptop from 2007), and hard to use, and > needing a JS-capable webbrowser.
OK! Well I attach the debian/ adaptations - that's where the risk area is, the maintscripts.
>From 320301da44e469a6bbb7d2fb6aac227c8e8d020c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bower <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 22:34:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Handle new /var/log/wtmp.db location --- debian/README.Debian | 5 +++-- debian/libwtmpdb0.postinst | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ debian/libwtmpdb0.wtmpdb.logrotate | 4 +--- debian/wtmpdb.postinst | 2 +- 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) create mode 100644 debian/libwtmpdb0.postinst diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian index c01c89f..ce45b0d 100644 --- a/debian/README.Debian +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ Log location ------------ The datafile for the login and reboot records is currently stored in the -tool's state directory '/var/lib/wtmpdb' instead of the system log directory -'/var/log'. +system log directory '/var/log' instead of the tool's state directory +'/var/lib/wtmpdb' as defined upstream via /usr/include/wtmpdb.h. On Debian +/var/lib/wtmpdb/wtmp.db should be a symbolic link to /var/log/wtmp.db. Logging SSH sessions diff --git a/debian/libwtmpdb0.postinst b/debian/libwtmpdb0.postinst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d61119 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/libwtmpdb0.postinst @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +set -e + +lib_log="${DPKG_ROOT:-}/var/lib/wtmpdb/wtmp.db" +new_log="${DPKG_ROOT:-}/var/log/wtmp.db" + +# Effect the conversion from storing the live log in the state directory to +# storing it in its proper place, the logs directory. Also set up the symlink +# where tmpfiles.d is not available. +if [ "$1" = "configure" ] +then + if [ -s "$lib_log" ] && [ ! -h "$lib_log" ] && [ ! -s "$new_log" ] + then + mv -f "$lib_log" "$new_log" + fi + + # The unhandled case is records in both locations. For this we need + # a 'wtmpdb merge' operation called in wtmpdb.postinst but no such + # operation yet exists. + + if [ ! -f "$lib_log" ] + then + mkdir -p "$(dirname "$lib_log")" + ln -sf ../../log/wtmp.db "$lib_log" + fi +fi + +#DEBHELPER# diff --git a/debian/libwtmpdb0.wtmpdb.logrotate b/debian/libwtmpdb0.wtmpdb.logrotate index d856fe1..cbfc00e 100644 --- a/debian/libwtmpdb0.wtmpdb.logrotate +++ b/debian/libwtmpdb0.wtmpdb.logrotate @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@ -/var/lib/wtmpdb/wtmp.db { +/var/log/wtmp.db { missingok yearly create nocompress rotate 4 - olddir /var/log - renamecopy } diff --git a/debian/wtmpdb.postinst b/debian/wtmpdb.postinst index 90a66ec..76d6dd4 100644 --- a/debian/wtmpdb.postinst +++ b/debian/wtmpdb.postinst @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ then fi old_log="${DPKG_ROOT:-}/var/log/wtmp" -new_log="${DPKG_ROOT:-}/var/lib/wtmpdb/wtmp.db" +new_log="${DPKG_ROOT:-}/var/log/wtmp.db" tmp_log="$new_log.import-tmp" # If wtmp logs are present on first installation, import them. -- 2.51.0
