Moved log file creation from Shadow to "Creating the passwd

and group files" and renamed that section accordingly.
Closes 741.


git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3166 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/chapter06/chapter06.xml b/chapter06/chapter06.xml
index 0ea46cf1b..cf5715585 100644
--- a/chapter06/chapter06.xml
+++ b/chapter06/chapter06.xml
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ ln -s bash /bin/sh</userinput></screen>
 
 
 <sect1 id="ch06-pwdgroup">
-<title>Creating the passwd and group files</title>
+<title>Creating the passwd, group and log files</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="pwdgroup.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
 <para>In order for <emphasis>root</emphasis> to be able to login and for the 
@@ -279,6 +279,21 @@ has executed. Since we want to use our newly compiled binaries as soon as
 they are installed, we turn off this function for the duration of this
 chapter.</para>
 
+<para>The <userinput>login</userinput>, <userinput>agetty</userinput> and
+<userinput>init</userinput> programs (and some others) use a number of log
+files to record information such as who was logged into the system and when.
+These programs, however, won't write to the log files if they don't already
+exist. Initialize the log files and give them their proper permissions:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp}
+chmod 644 /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp}</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>The <filename>/var/run/utmp</filename> file records the users that are
+currently logged in. The <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> file records all
+logins and logouts. The <filename>/var/log/lastlog</filename> file records for
+each user when he or she last logged in. The <filename>/var/log/btmp</filename>
+file records the bad login attempts.</para>
+
 </sect1>
 
 
diff --git a/chapter06/shadowpwd.xml b/chapter06/shadowpwd.xml
index 4e8e3aa79..89cfd5d39 100644
--- a/chapter06/shadowpwd.xml
+++ b/chapter06/shadowpwd.xml
@@ -16,24 +16,6 @@ Estimated required disk space:  &shadow-compsize;</screen>
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of Shadow</title>
 
-<para>The <userinput>login</userinput>, <userinput>getty</userinput> and
-<userinput>init</userinput> programs (and some others) maintain a number
-of logfiles to record who are and who were logged in to the system.  These
-programs, however, don't create these logfiles when they don't exist, so if
-you want this logging to occur you will have to create the files yourself.
-The Shadow package needs to detect these files in their proper place, so we
-create them now, with their proper permissions:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp}
-chmod 644 /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp}</userinput></screen>
-
-<para>The <filename>/var/run/utmp</filename> file lists the users that are
-currently logged in, the <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> file who
-<emphasis>were</emphasis> logged in and when.
-The <filename>/var/log/lastlog</filename> file shows for each user when he
-or she last logged in, and the <filename>/var/log/btmp</filename> lists the
-bad login attempts.</para>
-
 <para>Shadow hard-wires the path to the <userinput>passwd</userinput> binary
 within the binary itself, but does this the wrong way. If a
 <userinput>passwd</userinput> binary is not present before installing Shadow,