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diff --git a/doc/s6-linux-init-maker.html b/doc/s6-linux-init-maker.html index f8ef940..9bf44ac 100644 --- a/doc/s6-linux-init-maker.html +++ b/doc/s6-linux-init-maker.html @@ -320,9 +320,15 @@ files in a staging directory. </li> <br /> available when the s6-linux-init package has been built with the <tt>--enable-utmps</tt> configure option, that enables support for the <a href="//skarnet.org/software/utmps/">utmps</a> package. The option -defines the user that the <tt>utmpd</tt> and <tt>wtmpd</tt> services -will run as, and activates these services. Default is <strong>no -utmpd or wtmpd services</strong>. </li> <br /> +defines the user that the <tt>utmpd</tt> service +will run as, and activates this service. (Note that you will still +have to create a <tt>wtmpd</tt> service yourself and activate it +later in the boot sequence, after a writable filesystem is mounted, +because the wtmp database is supposed to be persistent and should live +on a real filesystem. +s6-linux-init cannot do that for you, because it only handles the +early part of the boot sequence, before filesystems are mounted.) +Default is <strong>no utmpd service</strong>. </li> <br /> <li> <tt>-C</tt> : create a set of scripts that is suitable for running <em>in a container</em>. This modifies some behaviours: @@ -457,11 +463,14 @@ directories may exist: <ul> <li> A directory somewhere under <tt>run-image</tt>, by default <tt>utmps</tt>, -that is the location where the utmp and wtmp files will be created. </li> - <li> Two additional early services named <tt>utmpd</tt> and <tt>wtmpd</tt>, -that are the <a href="//skarnet.org/software/utmps/">utmps</a> way of -providing secure utmp functionality. </li> -</ul> +that is the location where the utmp files will be created. </li> + <li> An additional early service named <tt>utmpd</tt>, which is +a part of the <a href="//skarnet.org/software/utmps/">utmps</a> way of +providing secure utmp functionality. A similar <tt>wtmpd</tt> service +should also be created and run later in the boot sequence by the +service manager; it is not s6-linux-init's job to do it because +<tt>wtmp</tt> requires a real, writable filesystem. </li> +</ul>1 <h2> Notes </h2> |