antwal/debian-stretch-minimal repository overview

⁠Debian 9.x Minimal Base

• Provides working sysvinit, syslogd, cron, anacron, at, and logrotate.
• syslogd is configured to output to the docker log system by default.

⁠Environment Variables

This environment variable is available for your use:

• DEBBASE_SYSLOG defaults to stdout, which redirects all syslog activity to the Docker infrastructure. If you instead set it to internal, it will use the default Debian configuration of logging to /var/log within the container. The configuration is applied at container start time by adjusting the /etc/syslog.conf symlink to point to either syslog.conf.internal or syslog.conf.stdout. syslog.conf.internal is the default from the system. dpkg-divert is used to force all packages' attempts to write to /etc/syslog.conf to instead write to /etc/syslog.conf.internal.

• DEBBASE_TIMEZONE, if set, will configure the /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime files in the container to the appropriate timezone. Set this to the desired timezone; for instance, Europe/Rome.