Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb

[Andrew Bower]

Mark,

On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 08:32:28PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 08:23:51PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > I suppose adding something in initscripts might be possible.
> 
> Actually, is there a reason why this or something similar should be included in
> wtmpdb itself?

Your initscript works nicely, thanks! Validation for your translator?

Any reason to think anything is missing? I haven't written these sort of
non-daemon initscripts myself.

With commit 32a4d9da9cbeb846c1a6f380fec736eb0b51ab61:

https://salsa.debian.org/abower/wtmpdb/-/commits/sysvinit-booting

  $ last -10
  andy     tty7         :0               Sun Feb  2 15:21 - still logged in
  lightdm  tty7         :0               Sun Feb  2 15:20 - 15:21  (00:00)
  reboot   system boot  6.12.10-amd64    Sun Feb  2 15:20 - still running
  andy     tty7         :0               Sun Feb  2 15:19 - 15:19  (00:00)
  lightdm  tty7         :0               Sun Feb  2 15:19 - 15:19  (00:00)
  reboot   system boot  6.12.10-amd64    Sun Feb  2 15:18 - 15:19  (00:00)
  s-reboot system boot  6.12.10-amd64    Sun Feb  2 15:17 - 15:18  (00:00)
  andy     pts/13                        Sun Feb  2 14:00 - 14:00  (00:00)
  root     pts/13                        Sun Feb  2 14:00 - 14:00  (00:00)
  nobody                                 Sun Feb  2 07:48 - 07:48  (00:00)

  /var/lib/wtmpdb/wtmp.db begins Sun Feb  2 07:48:24 2025

Shall we go with this?

Thank you both for your suggestions for this bug,

Andrew