Create log file when installing rpm

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What the best way to create a log file in an rpm spec file? The service I'm creating runs under an unprivileged user so cannot create files in /var/log/.

I think a minimal approach is accessible by a simple echo command during executing every scriptlet of specfile. — Erfankam, Apr 09 '17 at 07:16

6EQUJ5 · Answer 1 · 2014-03-10T02:47:28.743

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You could create /var/log/myservice/ directory and make it owned by your user. Inside %install or make install: (ignoring buildroot & such)

install -d /var/log/myservice -o serviceuser -m 750

This assumes you are running your service similarly to apache which often runs as user apache and still puts logs in var/log/apache

Then add the corresponding rule for /var/log/myservice in your spec file.

%dir /var/log/myservice

edited Mar 10 '14 at 02:47

answered Mar 10 '14 at 02:40

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Good idea, but rpmbuilid complains that the user doesn't exist – Noodles Mar 10 '14 at 03:18
How about adding the directory normally, and useradd'ing and chown'ing it in %post ? – 6EQUJ5 Mar 10 '14 at 05:27
+1 but you actually want to useradd in %pre and specify the owner user/group in the %files section – guido Mar 13 '14 at 11:49

Create log file when installing rpm

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