re-create missing log file dir upon start up

[pms967]

Hi Marco,

possible problem: on "light", dedicated player systems using SD/CF/SSD or other flash media, I always set the /var/log (as well as /tmp and /var/tmp) file system to be on a RAMdisk. Among the other things, that way I avoid excessive (re)writing on the flash.

Obviously, when the system starts /var/log is empty. Any software expecting to find an existing log dir in there may/will fail. Please make sure that falcon will automatically re-create any missing dir it may require under /var/log upon startup.

(if falcon does not expect/require any dir to exists under /var/log, please ignore this issue).

[marcoc1712]

Problem here are permissions: /var/log is normally write protected, sure against www users, so, during installation, falcon creates a special directory /var/log/falcon with granted write permission to www-data, same for var/log/squeezelite and user squeezelite. This way www-data could write to existing files, create new, delete old, rename, rotate,.. in a 'secure' way (or better, maybe secure enought for a music player in a lan). Same for squeezelite, but here you could also choose a completely different location for the log file (i.e. /var/log/falcon) directly on the web gui. You could change configuration for your installation, but I think you better mount /var/log/falcon and maybe also /var/log/squeezelite on RAM disk instead. p.s. If you are thinking to build up quite a sort of a distribution, name it and adjust falcon script until it will completely fit your requirement. Probably is a matter of changing few rows in the configuration file and - maybe a couple of scripts. Is the way falcon is built, Should be very, very simple.