Package: bootchart
Version: 0.10~svn407-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
Please could you accept this patch to allow the hardcoded path of /tmp
for temporary data to be changed.
I have found that stuff in /tmp is prone to being cleaned by various
initscripts.
Thanks, Kel.
diff -Nrup bootchart-0.10~svn407/script/bootchartd
bootchart-0.10~svn407.log_dir/script/bootchartd
--- bootchart-0.10~svn407/script/bootchartd 2008-03-03 02:05:56.000000000
+1000
+++ bootchart-0.10~svn407.log_dir/script/bootchartd 2008-03-03
02:05:24.000000000 +1000
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ VERSION="0.8"
# Lock file
BOOTLOG_LOCK=".lock"
+# Base temp dir
+BOOTLOG_DIR=/tmp
+
# Read configuration.
CONF="/etc/bootchartd.conf"
if [ -f $PWD/bootchartd.conf ]; then
@@ -47,7 +50,7 @@ start()
# boot), a tmpfs is mounted in /mnt. The mount point is immediately
# released using a lazy umount, so the script must never leave that
# directory.
- LOG_DIR="$( mktemp -d /tmp/bootchart.XXXXXX 2>/dev/null )"
+ LOG_DIR="$( mktemp -d ${BOOTLOG_DIR}/bootchart.XXXXXX 2>/dev/null )"
if [ -z "$LOG_DIR" ]; then
LOG_DIR="/mnt"
LAZY_UMOUNT="yes"
diff -Nrup bootchart-0.10~svn407/script/bootchartd.conf
bootchart-0.10~svn407.log_dir/script/bootchartd.conf
--- bootchart-0.10~svn407/script/bootchartd.conf 2008-03-03
02:05:56.000000000 +1000
+++ bootchart-0.10~svn407.log_dir/script/bootchartd.conf 2008-03-03
02:03:44.000000000 +1000
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ PROCESS_ACCOUNTING="no"
# Tarball for the various boot log files
BOOTLOG_DEST=/var/log/bootchart.tgz
+# Directory in which temporary data is stored during boot process
+BOOTLOG_DIR=/tmp
+
# Whether to automatically stop logging as the boot process completes.
# The logger will look for known processes that indicate bootup completion
# at a specific runlevel (e.g. gdm-binary, mingetty, etc.).
