Switching emonpi/emoncms logfile locations to /var/log/emoncms

[borpin (Brian Orpin)]

It was this discussion that made me look at it and realise how elegant it was. @rohanl wrote a script to create the config file; you could use that as a one off but possibly need to be careful of conflicts with L2R.

Better handling of files in tmpfs /var/log

Since /var/log is mounted as tmpfs the contents including all subdirs are deleted on reboot. This is currently handled by having code in /etc/rc.local that recreates the directories and files that are required, and then restarting services. There are several things I don’t like about this: services being restarted unnecessarily The list is liable to get out of date. for instance it creates /var/log/openhab, whereas OpenHAB2 requires /var/log/openhab2 some of the users do not exist until packa…