use events_logfile_path from containers.conf for events log.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>

3 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/libpod/options.go b/libpod/options.go
index 44505da26..630fe809d 100644
--- a/libpod/options.go
+++ b/libpod/options.go
@@ -500,8 +500,6 @@ func WithEventsLogger(logger string) RuntimeOption {
 		}
 
 		rt.config.Engine.EventsLogger = logger
-		rt.config.Engine.EventsLogFilePath = filepath.Join(rt.config.Engine.TmpDir, "events", "events.log")
-
 		return nil
 	}
 }
diff --git a/libpod/runtime.go b/libpod/runtime.go
index 3297b1ddd..90cd8ffe0 100644
--- a/libpod/runtime.go
+++ b/libpod/runtime.go
@@ -1114,7 +1114,9 @@ func (r *Runtime) mergeDBConfig(dbConfig *DBConfig) {
 			logrus.Debugf("Overriding tmp dir %q with %q from database", c.TmpDir, dbConfig.LibpodTmp)
 		}
 		c.TmpDir = dbConfig.LibpodTmp
-		c.EventsLogFilePath = filepath.Join(dbConfig.LibpodTmp, "events", "events.log")
+		if c.EventsLogFilePath == "" {
+			c.EventsLogFilePath = filepath.Join(dbConfig.LibpodTmp, "events", "events.log")
+		}
 	}
 
 	if !r.storageSet.VolumePathSet && dbConfig.VolumePath != "" {
diff --git a/test/system/090-events.bats b/test/system/090-events.bats
index 5af6a3793..a0b0380a2 100644
--- a/test/system/090-events.bats
+++ b/test/system/090-events.bats
@@ -116,3 +116,16 @@ function _events_disjunctive_filters() {
 @test "events with disjunctive filters - default" {
     _events_disjunctive_filters ""
 }
+
+@test "events with events_logfile_path in containers.conf" {
+    skip_if_remote "remote does not support --events-backend"
+    events_file=$PODMAN_TMPDIR/events.log
+    containersconf=$PODMAN_TMPDIR/containers.conf
+    cat >$containersconf <<EOF
+[engine]
+events_logfile_path="$events_file"
+EOF
+    CONTAINERS_CONF="$containersconf" run_podman --events-backend=file pull $IMAGE
+    run cat $events_file
+    is "$output" ".*\"Name\":\"$IMAGE" "test"
+}