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authorShawn Landden <shawnlandden@gmail.com>2013-07-12 20:57:15 -0700
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-07-13 07:56:11 -0400
commitb98e3866fddf2edfa13fc1b4323aa84f89336ff2 (patch)
tree28ad52a4b97c3316cbd71b6353f77e1950d0c421 /src/journal/journalctl.c
parent3d56f7df4411684404470d36ddec0d90649a13a3 (diff)
journalctl: have a useful --setup-keys error message when using non-persistant logging
Generating seed... Generating key pair... Generating sealing key... Failed to open /var/log/journal/33f46101703a10c5fc6fa4f451840101/fss.tmp.k2wDDU: No such file or directory
Diffstat (limited to 'src/journal/journalctl.c')
-rw-r--r--src/journal/journalctl.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/journal/journalctl.c b/src/journal/journalctl.c
index 7baea237cb..32665b7f78 100644
--- a/src/journal/journalctl.c
+++ b/src/journal/journalctl.c
@@ -725,6 +725,19 @@ static int setup_keys(void) {
char *p = NULL, *k = NULL;
struct FSSHeader h;
uint64_t n;
+ struct stat st;
+
+ r = stat("/var/log/journal", &st);
+ if (r < 0 && errno != ENOENT && errno != ENOTDIR) {
+ log_error("stat(\"%s\") failed: %m", "/var/log/journal");
+ return -errno;
+ }
+
+ if (r < 0 || !S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
+ log_error("%s is not a directory, must be using persistent logging for FSS.",
+ "/var/log/journal");
+ return r < 0 ? -errno : -ENOTDIR;
+ }
r = sd_id128_get_machine(&machine);
if (r < 0) {