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# Copyright 2014 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved. Use of
# this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
# found in the LICENSE file.
import time
from autotest_lib.client.bin import test
from autotest_lib.client.common_lib import error
from autotest_lib.client.common_lib import utils
class platform_LogNonKernelKmsg(test.test):
"""Test that we log non-kernel messages via /dev/kmsg"""
KLOG_PATH = '/dev/kmsg'
SYSLOG_BIN = 'rsyslogd'
SYSLOG_JOB = 'syslog'
SYSTEM_LOG_PATH = '/var/log/messages'
version = 1
def run_once(self):
utils.run('truncate -s 0 %s' % self.SYSTEM_LOG_PATH)
our_message = 'non-kernel message generated at %d\n' % time.time()
with open(self.KLOG_PATH, 'w') as outfile:
outfile.write(our_message)
cmd_result = utils.run(
'grep "%s" %s' % (our_message, self.SYSTEM_LOG_PATH),
ignore_status=True)
if cmd_result.exit_status:
raise error.TestFail(
'our log message did not appear in %s' % self.SYSTEM_LOG_PATH)