From 3838dc47c3f15128f171bfbd0eaf2e3e8641e4e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: jloeser <jloeser@suse.de>

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:46:14 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] Check for logfile (--logfile option) and create it if

 necessary

If a logfile is passed to dracut via --logfile option and doesn't

exist, dracut doesn't create it and logs nothing. Instead, dracut

should try to touch the file and print a warning if creating fails.

References: bnc#892191

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>

---

 dracut.sh | 10 ++++++++++

 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dracut.sh b/dracut.sh

index cda7955..79f36b6 100755

--- a/dracut.sh

+++ b/dracut.sh

@@ -816,6 +816,16 @@ stdloglvl=$((stdloglvl + verbosity_mod_l))

 # eliminate IFS hackery when messing with fw_dir

 fw_dir=${fw_dir//:/ }

+# check for logfile and try to create one if it doesn't exist

+if [[ -n "$logfile" ]];then

+    if [[ ! -f "$logfile" ]];then

+        touch "$logfile"

+        if [ ! $? -eq 0 ] ;then

+            printf "%s\n" "dracut: touch $logfile failed." >&2

+        fi

+    fi

+fi

+

 # handle compression options.

 [[ $compress ]] || compress="gzip"

 case $compress in