hi5ato / transientlog

A transient /var/log for raspberry pi or other SD card linux.

A transient /var/log for Raspberry Pi

This project was abandoned

My Raspberry Pi has been broken last year. I can not maintain this software anymore. Please use log2ram.

Thank you.

abstract

Write the log on memory, not on disk. For Raspberry Pi or other SD card linux. I test on raspbian.

This code from A transient /var/log : Debian Administration.

Thanks for Matteo Cortese.

Install

git clone [email protected]:senju/transientlog.git
cd transientlog
sudo ./install.sh

And reboot.

transientlog's Issues

Some services will not start correctly with transientlog (bind9, isc-dhcp-server...)

Hello,

Some services start too early (bind9, isc-dhcp-server...)
They should wait that transientlog is up and running.

I added some files like this (for bind9 for example) :

$ cat /etc/systemd/system/bind9.service.d/transientlog_dependancy.conf 
[Unit]
Wants=var-log.mount var-permanentlog.mount transientlog.service

(I disabled, reenabled bind9 of course, to reconfigure the service with those new dependencies)

However, my services (bind9, isc-dhcp-server...) are still broken at boot time : they start too early.
When they start too early, they use /var/log before it is remounted. When transientlog remounted the directory, my services will not find their files and will hang or fail.

• Short fix : restart the services manually, after every reboot.
• Long term fix : no idea...