Bug#866313: systemd: create /var/log/lastlog if it does not exist

[Peter Colberg]

Package: systemd
Version: 233-9
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Could you extend /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf as follows?

f /var/log/lastlog 0664 root utmp -

systemd already creates /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/btmp if they do not
exist. For custom live-boot images that exclude files under /var/log/,
it would be nice to also create /var/log/lastlog, e.g., for sshd:

# grep lastlog /var/log/auth.log
Jun 27 20:00:00 huron sshd[1234]: lastlog_openseek: Couldn't stat /var/log/lastlog: No such file or directory

Regards,
Peter