[systemd-devel] lost journal persistence

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 16.05.14 10:33, Chris Murphy (lists at colorremedies.com) wrote:

> >> Seems crude but I could figure out how to set an selinux label on the
> >> wrong /var to prevent anything from creating things there, and see
> >> what explodes?
> > 
> > maybe use chattr with the immutable flag?
> 
> That did it.
> 
> [   14.653169] rawhide.localdomain fedora-import-state[277]: cp: cannot create directory ‘/./var/lib/dhclient’: Permission denied
> [   14.653474] rawhide.localdomain fedora-import-state[277]: cp: preserving times for ‘/./var/lib’: Operation not permitted
> 
> 
>  rpm -q --whatprovides /lib/systemd/fedora-import-state
> initscripts-9.54-2.fc21.x86_64
> 
> 
> # cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/fedora-import-state.service
> [Unit]
> Description=Import network configuration from initramfs
> DefaultDependencies=no
> ConditionPathIsReadWrite=/
> ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=/run/initramfs/state
> Conflicts=shutdown.target
> Before=shutdown.target emergency.service emergency.target systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
> After=systemd-remount-fs.service
> 
> [Service]
> ExecStart=/lib/systemd/fedora-import-state
> Type=oneshot
> TimeoutSec=0
> RemainAfterExit=yes

Hmm, this seems to be an initrd thing. Harald, can you comment? It's
certainly broken the way it currently is...

If we still need this I do wonder why this is not part of the dracut
package?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat