[Bug 1018554] Re: write timestamp to console on halt/reboot/shutdown

[James Hunt]

Hi Scott,

This doesn't require a change to Upstart - just create a job called
"log-reboot" or similar containing something like this:

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start on runlevel PREVLEVEL=2

task

exec echo "rebooting `date`" > /dev/console

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Title:
  write timestamp to console on halt/reboot/shutdown

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In EC2 and other cloud platforms, the console data is programmatically
  available.

  Our tests in EC2 collect this console output on shutdown / reboot
  /terminate.  The data is very useful.

  in cloud-init i've added timestamps to output so that information is available in the console log.
  One thing missing (which cloud-init has no hooks for) is 'shutdown' or 'reboot'.

  I'd like for upstart to write a message to /dev/console saying:
   rebooting Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:52:45 -0400

  or something like that.
  I'd be happy if the 'nih_info' messages in util/reboot.c
  had at timestamp on them, and got written to /dev/console by default (they do not seem to).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: upstart 1.5-0ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.5.0-2.2-generic 3.5.0-rc4
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-2-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.2.5-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Jun 27 19:45:52 2012
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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