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1sysvinit (2.89dsf) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
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4 * Do not forget room for last NULL of new environment (was
5 local bug 35866)
7e088ce6 6 * Handle deleted binaries in pidof (was local bug #34992)
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8 #35858)
9 * Avoid that init double environment variables for its childs
10 (was local bug #35855)
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12 * Sulogin: try to detect the real device(s) used for the system console
13 /dev/console if but only if /dev/console is used. On Linux this can
14 be more than one device, e.g. a serial line as well as a virtual
15 console as well as a simple printer.
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16 * Fix counting message lines in wall. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
17 * Fix bad printf conversion specifier in wall. Patch from Sébastien Luttringer.
18 * Add patches from Openwall project. Thanks goes to Solar Designer.
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19 * Add code to detect the system consoles with the help of the
20 new /proc/consoles files of linux kernel 2.6.38+
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21 * Try to make utmpdump IPv6 valid, change based on suggestion from
22 Navdeep Bhatia (see local bug #32429)
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23 * Fix signal and alarm handling based on the patch from Florent Viard.
24 (was local bug #32304)
25 * Add fix for Redhat bug #573346: last incorrectly displays IPv6
26 addresses (was local bug #29497)
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27 * Correct fix for Debian bug #547073: use IUTF8 flag if defined
28 and if already set to make sure the utf-8 flag is not cleared
29 from the tty. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
64953d94 30 * Include limits.h in killall.c to enforce definition of PATH_MAX
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31 * Fix sysvinit bug #29758 Linker invocation should not contain
32 headers. Change based on patch from Elias Pipping.
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33 * Add fix for Debian bug #580272: use return value 1 of
34 is_selinux_enabled() to determine if SELinux is enabled,
35 otherwise initialize SELinux and load the policy. Patch from
36 Petter Reinholdtsen.
3c2942d5 37 * Make quotes visible in example of the manual page of fstab-decode
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38 * Sulogin: enforce reconnection of stdin/stdout/stderr if a device
39 was specified.
e114010a 40 * Sulogin: if zero is read at reading the passwd guess it's done.
d32c9251 41 * Sulogin: respect byte order that is do not mix chars and ints
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42 * Shutdown: use PATH_DEFAULT as suggested by Paul Arthur in local bug #36101
43 * Killall5/pidof: handle strange names of executables (local bug #36252)
44 * Sulogin: be aware the crypt(3) may fail (local bug #36313)
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47 * Next release will be 2.89dsf.
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48 * Add #ifdef in bootlogd.c to avoid gcc warnings about unused
49 variable on non-linux platforms.
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50 * Only set the VSWTC field for termios in init if it is available,
51 to get the source building on FreeBSD.
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52 * Add some code to be able to detect programs even as user with
53 kernel 3.0 and above
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54 * Improve message printed when signaling processes to stop.
55 Patch from Matias A. Fonzo at the dragora project.
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56 * Rename internal functions warn() and shutdown() in the shutdown
57 binary to avoid surprising dynamic library name resolution
58 conflict with NSS modules. Patch from Richard Tollerton.
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59 * Try harder to find libcrypt.*, even if there is no static library
60 available. Also look in /usr/lib/*/ for the library, to handle
61 Debian multiarch systems. Based on patch from Andrew Gregory.
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63 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010
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65sysvinit (2.88dsf) world; urgency=low
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6a169c50 67 [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
5b37aca8 68 * Mention new home on Savannah in README.
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69 * Revert change from Fedora/RedHat where the now obsolete command
70 INIT_CMD_CHANGECONS was introduced. Based on feedback and patch
71 from Bill Nottingham.
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72 * Adjust makefile to make sure the install directories are created
73 before files are copied into them.
bcbe7f89 74 * Simplify build rules, based on patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
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75 * Fix minor bug in optimizing of argument parsing. Based on
76 report from jakemus on freshmeat.
192c4567 77 * Add casts to get rid of compiler warning about signed/unsigned issues.
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78 * Change tty handling in init to make sure the UTF-8 flag is not cleared
79 on boot. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
545897fa 80 * Add Makefile in toplevel directory.
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81 * Print usage information when shutdown is used by non-root user.
82 Patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
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83 * Sync shutdown manual page and usage information. Patch from Mike
84 Frysinger and Gentoo.
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85 * Fix race condition in utmp writing. Patch from Gil Kloepfer via
86 Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
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87 * Rewrite findtty() in bootlogd to recursively search /dev/ for the
88 correct device, to handle terminal devices for example in /dev/pty/.
89 Patch from Debian.
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90 * Make sure bootlogd findpty() returns an error value when it fails to
91 find a usable pty. Patch from Rob Leslie via Debian.
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92 * Make sure bootlogd fflush() every line, even if asked not to flush
93 to disk using fdatasync(). Patch from Scott Gifford via Debian.
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94 * Add compatibility code to handle old path "/etc/powerstatus" for a
95 while.
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96 * Incude definition for MNT_DETACH which is missing in older GNU libc
97 headers.
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98 * Do not strip binaries before installing them, to make it easier to
99 get binaries with debug information installed.
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101 [ Werner Fink ]
102 * Add the comment from Andrea Arcangeli about the correct
103 place of setting the default childhandler within spawn().
104 * Make sure that newline is printed out for last(1) even
105 if an utmp record entry is truncated.
106 * Check if utmp not only exists but also is writable and delay
107 writing out of the utmp runlevel record if utmp is not writable.
108 * Be able to find libcrypt also on 64 bit based architectures.
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109 * Add option -w to the last command to display the full user and
110 domain names in the output. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
111 * Add a manual page for utmpdump as this tool is sometimes
112 very useful even if not intended for normal use.
113 * Use paths.h macros for wall
114 * Change path "/etc/powerstatus" to "/var/run/powerstatus"
115 * Detected also removable block devices at halt/reboot to be able
116 to flush data and send them the ATA standby command. This should
117 avoid data loss on USB sticks and other removable block devices.
118 * Flush block devices on halt/reboot if not done by the kernel.
119 * Set SHELL to /bin/sh in the environmant of shutdown.
120 * Retry to write out shutdown messages if interrupted.
121 * pidof/killall5 - make omit pid list a dynamic one.
122 * pidof - provide '-n' to skip stat(2) syscall on network based FS.
123 * init - avoid compiler warnings
124 * init - initialize console by using the macros from ttydefaults.h
125 * init - add the possiblity to ignore further interrupts from keyboard
126 * init - add the possiblity to set sane terminal line settings
127 * sulogin - add the possibility to reset the terminal io
128 * Fix some minor problems
129 * init - enable is_selinux_enabled() to detect selinuxfs
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130 * Add fix for Debian bug #536574 -- Can be enabled by -DACCTON_OFF
131 * Add helper program fstab-decode to make it easier to handle
132 /etc/mtab content. Patch by Miloslav Trmac and Fedora.
133 * Add fix for Debian bug #335023 - Make sure TERM is set on FreeBSD.
134 * Add fix for Debian bug #374038 - Make it clear that shutdown -c can
135 only cancel a waiting shutdown, not an active one.
516b0c8f 136 * Add note to pidof manual page about the use of readlink(2). Patch by
55f242bf 137 Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
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138 * Add PAM patch contrib/notify-pam-dead.patch based on Debian bug
139 #68621, which will add PAM support for programs spawned by init on
140 the console like sulogin. Based on patch by Topi Miettinen. This
141 patch is not applied by default yet while we review its
142 usefullness. It is only helpful for session handling, as sulogin
143 do not use and will not use a PAM conv() function. The current
144 sulogin is able to handle DES as well as MD5, SHA, and Blowfish
145 encrypted passwords due using getpwnam(3).
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146 * Move utmp/wtmp before the execvp() in spawn() to be sure to
147 use the correct pid even on a controlling tty
148 * Remaining problem is that the pid of the second fork() for
149 getting a controlling tty isn't that reported by spawn()
150 * Re-enable writting utmp/wtmp for boot scripts
22786b24 151 * Extend sulogin to support additional encryption algorithms
47d64e61 152 * Re-enable maintenance message of sulogin
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153 * Enable the sulogin fallback password check to handle MD5, SHA, and
154 Blowfish encrypted passwords in case of getpwnam(3) fails.
872353ef 155 * sulogin picking the SELinux context was broken. Patch by Daniel Walsh
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161 * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
162 * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
163 * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
164 * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
165 * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
166 Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
167 * Adjust output from "last -x". In reboot lines, print endpoint
168 of uptime too. In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
169 the time between downs. Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
170 Patch by Thomas Hood.
171 * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last. Patch from Fedora.
172 * Document last options in usage information, previously only
173 mentioned in the manual page.
174 * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
175 of the short form provided by default. Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
176 and SuSe.
177 * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
178 are stripped.
179 * Increase the compiler warning level when building.
180 * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Bill
181 Nottingham and Fedora.
182 * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
183 Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
184 * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
185 the new process. Patch from RedHat.
186 * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
187 re-exec. Patch from RedHat.
188 * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
189 boot. Patch from SuSe.
190 * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6. Patch from Thomas Hood.
191 * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink. Patch from
192 Thomas Hood.
193 * Improve error message from init if fork() fail. Patch found in Suse.
194 * Add support for SE Linux capability handling. Patch from Manoj
195 Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
196 the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
197 * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
198 process root. Ignore -c when not running as root. Patch from
199 Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
200 * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
201 process name can be one character longer. Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
202 * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
203 the child successfully.
204 * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
205 fdatasync(). Patch from Thomas Hood.
206 * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
207 not exist. Patch from Thomas Hood.
208 * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA. Patch
209 from Thomas Hood.
210 * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
211 value is usable on re-exec. Patch from Thomas Hood.
212 * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
213 to reschedule. Patch from SuSe.
214 * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
215 * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
216 and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option. Patch from
217 Samuel Thibault.
218 * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
219 Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
220 * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly. Patches
221 from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
222 * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
223 string lengths. Patch from SuSe.
224 * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
225 * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake. Patch from SuSe.
226 * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
227 processes to kill. Patch from Debian.
228 * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
229 some pids during shutdown. Based on patch from Colin Watson and
230 Ubuntu.
231 * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages. Patch from Debian.
232 * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
233 changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
234 avoiding stat() when the value isn't used. Also, lock process
235 pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
236 Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
237 Modderman.
238 * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
239 and document this requirement in the manual page.
240 * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
241 Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
242 * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
243 shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.
244
245 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
246
247sysvinit (2.86) cistron; urgency=low
248
249 * Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal
250 linebuffer to process \r, \t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
251 * Applied trivial OWL patches
252 * Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
253 (James Olin Oden <joden@malachi.lee.k12.nc.us>, redhat bug #97534)
254 * Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
255 * killall5 now skips kernel threads
256 * Inittab entries with both 'S' and other runlevels were broken.
257 Fix by Bryan Kadzban <bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
258 * Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
259 * You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in
260 init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only
261 variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
262 16 variables. There's also a length limit due to the size
263 of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
264 * Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and
265 INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
266 * Add "mountpoint" utility.
267 * Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
268 * Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t,
269 sulogin-message, user-console)
270
271 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
272
273sysvinit (2.85) cistron; urgency=low
274
275 * Add IPv6 support in last(1)
276 * Sulogin: even if the root password is empty, ask for a password-
277 otherwise there is no way to set a timeout.
278 * Removed support for ioctl.save.
279 * Turned of support for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/run/initrunlvl
280 * Fixed warts in dowall.c ("Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>)
281 * Fix init.c::spawn(). The "f" variable was used both as file descriptor
282 and waitpid(2) return code. In certain circumstances, this leads to
283 TIOCSCTTY with wrong file descriptor (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
284 * Fix fd leak in sulogin (Dmitry V. Levin).
285 * More error checking in all wait() calling code (Dmitry V. Levin).
286 * Fix argv[] initialization in spawn() (Dmitry V. Levin).
287 * Change strncpy to strncat in most places (Dmitry V. Levin).
288
289 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:37:57 +0200
290
291sysvinit (2.84) cistron; urgency=low
292
293 * Don't use /etc/initlvl interface for telinit; only use /dev/initctl,
294 and give a clear error when that fails.
295 * Add -i/--init command line flag to init - this tells init
296 'behave as system init even if you're not PID#1'. Useful for
297 testing in chroot/jail type environments.
298
299 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:10:08 +0100
300
301sysvinit (2.83) cistron; urgency=low
302
303 * Fix bug in shutdown where it didn't check correctly for a
304 virtual console when checking /etc/shutdown.allow
305 * Fix race condition in waitpid() [Andrea Arcangeli]
306 * Call closelog() after openlog()/syslog() since recent libc's
307 keep the logging fd open and that is fd#0 aka stdin.
308
309 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:27:06 +0200
310
311sysvinit (2.82) cistron; urgency=low
312
313 * Print out correct version number at startup.
314 * Fix spelling of initttab in init(8)
315
316 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:50:44 +0200
317
318sysvinit (2.81) cistron; urgency=low
319
320 * Fix typo/bug in killall5/pidof, -o option failed to work since 2.79.
321 Reformatted source code to prevent this from happening again.
322 * shutdown.8: applied redhat manpage update
323 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sulogin-nologin.patch
324 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-notty.patch
325 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
326
327sysvinit (2.80) cistron; urgency=low
328
329 * Grammar/spelling fixes in shutdown.c (Christian Steinrueck)
330 * Don't set controlling tty for non-(sysinit,boot,single) runlevels
331
332 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:26:56 +0200
333
334sysvinit (2.79) cistron; urgency=low
335
336 * New upstream version
337 * several fixes to wall by Tim Robbins <fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org>
338 * Several extra boundary checks by Solar Designer
339 * Make /dev/console controlling tty
340 * Stricter checks on ownership of tty by mesg(1)
341 * Documented and restricted -n option to wall(1)
342 * Make it compile with glibc 2.2.2
343 * Document IO redirection in wall manpage (closes: #79491)
344 * Update README (closes: #85650)
345 * Fix init.8 manpage (closes: #75268)
346 * Fix typo in halt(8) manpage (closes: #67875)
347 * Check time argument of shutdown(8) for correctness (closes: #67825)
348 * Check for stale sessions in last(1) (Chris Wolf <cwolf@starclass.com>)
349
350 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:04:36 +0200
351
352sysvinit (2.78-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
353
354 * Change "booting" to "reloading" message at reload
355 * Add "-z xxx" dummy command line argument (closes: #54717)
356
357 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:17:54 +0100
358
359sysvinit (2.78-1) unstable; urgency=low
360
361 * 2.78 will be the new upstream version, I'm skipping 2.77
362 * Shutdown now calls sync before switching the runlevel to 0 or 6,
363 or before unmounting filesystems if -n was used (closes: #46461)
364 * Some cosmetic changes to init.c (closes: #32079)
365
366 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:40:23 +0100
367
368sysvinit (2.77-2) unstable; urgency=low
369
370 * Fix last -i option
371
372 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
373
374sysvinit (2.77-1) unstable; urgency=low
375
376 * Write reboot record into utmp file as well to make rms happy
377 * Fork and dump core in / if SIGSEGV is received for debugging purposes
378 * Patch by Craig Sanders <cas@vicnet.net.au> for "last" -i option
379
380 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:16:23 +0200
381
382sysvinit (2.76-4) unstable; urgency=low
383
384 * Change dowall.c to handle Unix98 ptys correctly
385 * Add comment in rcS about usage of setup.sh and unconfigured.sh
386 * Shutdown now removes nologin file just before calling telinit
387 * SEGV handler now tries to continue after sleep of 30 seconds.
388 On a 386-class processor it also prints out the value of EIP.
389 * Fix for racecondition in check_init_fifo() by Richard Gooch
390
391 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 8 May 1999 17:22:57 +0200
392
393sysvinit (2.76-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
394
395 * Small bugfix to last.c courtesy of Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.ml.org>
396
397 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:44 +0100
398
399sysvinit (2.76-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
400
401 * Fix bug in check_pipe() which crashes init on the Alpha.
402
403 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:09:13 +0100
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405sysvinit (2.75-4) unstable; urgency=low
406
407 * Change sulogin password buffer to 128 characters.
408 * Don't print control characters in dowall.c
409 * Try to open getenv ("CONSOLE"), /dev/console and /dev/tty0 in order.
410 For backwards compatibility when you try to boot a 2.0.x kernel
411 with a linux > 2.1.70 /dev/console device.
412 * Change src/Makefile for non-debian systems (mainly, RedHat)
413 * Try to create /dev/initctl if not present; check every time to see
414 if the dev/ino of /dev/initctl has changed and re-open it. This should
415 help devfs a bit.
416 * Send SIGUSR1 to init at bootup to let it re-open /dev/initctl;
417 again in support of devfs.
418 * Moved pidof to /bin (it's only a link to killall5 anyway)
419
420 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:03:14 +0200
421
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423
424 * Fix last.c again.
425 * Add check to see if /dev/initctl is really a FIFO
426 * In ifdown.c first down all shaper devices then the real devices
427
428 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200
429
430sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
431
432 * Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
433 thanks to Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> and
434 David Parrish <dparrish@zeta.org.au>
435 * Fixes bugs:
436 #21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
437 #21765: sysvinit: Typo in `killall5.c'
438 #21775: sysvinit: sysvinit does not support MD5 hashed passwords
439 #21990: /usr/bin/last: unnecessary memset and off-by-one bug
440 #22084: sysvinit 2.74-4: SIGPWR missing on sparc
441 #21900: init, powerfail events, and shutdown.allow
442 #21702: init 0 does not work as expected...
443 #21728: sysvinit: Typo in `init.c'
444 #22363: sysvinit: discrepance btw. manpage and /sbin/init
445
446 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29 +0200
447
448sysvinit (2.74-4) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
449
450 * Add -o option to last to process libc5 utmp files.
451 * Buffer overflow fixed in init.c (not very serious; only exploitable
452 by root). Thanks to Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
453
454 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:04:33 +0200
455
456sysvinit (2.74-1) unstable; urgency=low
457
458 * Should compile with glibc 1.99 :)
459 * Change behaviour of reboot(1) and halt(1) so that the default when
460 the runlevel can't be determined is to call shutdown.
461 * Added re-exec patch from Al Viro (21 Feb 1998):
462 'U' flag added to telinit. It forces init to re-exec itself
463 (passing its state through exec, certainly).
464 May be useful for smoother (heh) upgrades.
465 24 Feb 1998, AV:
466 did_boot made global and added to state - thanks, Miquel.
467 Yet another file descriptors leak - close state pipe if
468 re_exec fails.
469
470 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:42:46 +0100
471
472sysvinit (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low
473
474 * Change _NSIG to NSIG for 2.1.x kernel includes.
475
476 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:01:02 +0100
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478sysvinit (2.73-1) unstable; urgency=low
479
480 * Use siginterrupt, now that system calls are restarted by default.
481 Main symptom was that the sulogin timeout didn't work but there
482 might have been more hidden problems.
483 * Kill process immidiately if turned off in inittab
484 * Fixed sulogin check on tty arg.
485 * Use strerror() instead of sys_errlist
486 * wall now supports a '-n' option to suppress [most of] the banner.
487 Debian doesn't use sysvinit's wall, but apparently Redhat does.
488 * Add '-F' (forcefsck) option to shutdown
489 * Close and reopen /dev/initctl on SIGUSR1 (mainly for a /dev in ram)
490
491 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:32:39 +0100
492
493sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
494
495 * Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
496
497 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:00 +0200
498
499sysvinit (2.72) unstable; urgency=low
500
501 * Applied manual page patches by Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>. Thanks Bill!
502 * Applied patches to the sample Slackware scripts by
503 "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
504 * Fix halt and reboot runlevels 0 & 6 check.
505 * Only say "no more processes left in runlevel x" once
506 * Fix race condition with SIGCHLD in spawn()
507 (thanks to Alon Ziv <alonz@CS.Technion.AC.IL>)
508 * Compress all manpages (missed 2)
509 * Compiled for libc6
510 * Added poweroff patch by Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>
511
512 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:20:17 +0200
513
514sysvinit (2.71-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
515
516 * Print 2.71 instead of 2.70 on startup :)
517
518 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 May 1997 12:45:25 +0200
519
520sysvinit (2.71-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
521
522 * Added code for updwtmp() in utmp.c for glibc (2.0.3)
523 * Fixed all programs to use functions from utmp.c and getutent()
524 * Do not try to clean up utmp in init itself (Bug#9022)
525 * Removed sync() from main loop.
526 * Hopefully fixes bug #8657 (shutdown signal handling)
527
528 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:27 +0200
529
530sysvinit (2.70-1) unstable; urgency=low
531
532 * Respawn fix
533 * Removed StUdLy CaPs from source code
534 * Moved files in source archive around
535 * Fixes for glibc (utmp handling, signal handling).
536 * Fixed '-d' option to last (now also works without '-a').
537 * Added extra checking in last.c to prevent showing dead entries
538
539 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:31:30 +0100
540
541sysvinit (2.69-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
542
543 * Fixed bug that can throw X in a loop (or any other app that reads from
544 /dev/tty0)
545
546 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:32:24 +0100
547
548sysvinit (2.67-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
549
550 * Fixes problem with /dev/console being controlling terminal of some
551 daemons
552 * Puts copyright file in the right place
553
554 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:23:33 +0100
555
556sysvinit (2.66-1) unstable; urgency=medium
557
558 * Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
559 being used..
560 * Also compiles and runs with GNU libc (and on the Alpha)
561 * Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
562 * Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
563 * Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
564 * Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait
565 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
566 * Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
567 /var/log and /etc itself.
568
569 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:46:54 +0100
570
5712.66 29-Oct-1996
572- Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
573 being used..
574- Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
575- Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
576- Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
577- Ported to Linux/Alpha and GNU libc.
578- Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait.
579 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
580- Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
581 /var/log and /etc itself.
582
5832.64 28-Jun-1996
584- Init checks CONSOLE environment variable on startup (overrides /dev/console)
585- Init sets CONSOLE variable for all its children.
586- Wtmp(): when zeroing out old utmp entries, keep ut_id field
587- Wtmp(): try to re-use ut_id field if possible.
588- SetTerm(): only read from /etc/ioctl.save if written once.
589- Included start-stop-daemon, C version (source only).
590- Fixed wait() for the emergency shell.
591- killall5: ignore signal before doing kill(-1, pid).
592
5932.63 14-Jun-1996
594- Fixed preinst script for Debian
595- Fixed init.c to become init daemon if name is init.new
596- Fixed pidof to not return PIDs of shell scripts
597
5982.62-2 09-Jun-1996
599- Changed debian /etc/init.d/boot script to create a nologin file
600 at boot and to remove it just before going multiuser.
601
6022.62 31-May-1996
603- Decided to release a 2.62 version with a BIG WARNING about upgrading
604 init in it. Will send a patch to Linus for the linux/Documentation/Changes
605 file so that 2.62 or later is mentioned as the version to upgrade to.
606- Added docs for Slackware
607
6082.61-3 29-May-1996
609- Fixed debian/etc/init.d/network for the lo device.
610- Added "-xdev" to the cd /tmp && find in debian/etc/init.d/boot
611- Made remove time for files in /tmp configurable.
612
6132.61 29-Apr-1996
614- Changed /etc/init.d/boot script again
615- Fixed problem in init.c with trailing whitespace after entries in inittab
616- Fixed killall5 problems
617- Added manpage for lastb
618- Added SHELL= environment variable to sulogin
619- Fixed sulogin & shadow problems
620- Added timeout option to sulogin
621
6222.60-2 16-Apr-1996
623- Fixed sulogin (didn't work if root wasn't first entry in shadow file)
624- Fixed mesg for systems with "tty" group (such as Debian)
625- Fixed nsyslog() in killall5.c
626
6272.60 01-Apr-1996
628- Fixed race condition in init.c, resulting in hanging shutdowns.
629 Courtesy of Max Neunhoeffer <Max.Neunhoeffer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.
630- Fixed debian/etc/init.d/boot for swapon and mdadd
631- Added architecture to debian.control
632- Added manpages for rc.boot and rc.local
633- Updated inittab manpage for 4-character runlevel field
634- Added debian replaces for bsdutils < version_without_mesg
635- Fixed init.c so that it also works with kernels 1.3.81 and up
636
6372.59 10-Mar-1996
638- Init logs less to syslog (suspected to hang in syslog() or openlog() )
639- removed closelog() from init.c
640- removed time check of runlevel record in halt.
641- Added options to last to get hostname from ut_addr field
642- Added last and mesg to installation targets
643- rewrote /etc/init.d/boot a bit.
644
6452.58-2 04-Jan-1996
646- Changed etc/init.d/rc to do a stty onlcr
647- Added /var/log/initrunlvl symlink
648
6492.58-1 31-Dec-1995
650- Added the latest debian files.
651- Added support for 4-character id fields (if you have libc5).
652- Fixed pidof (in killall5) parsing of /proc/.../stat
653- Save restore GMT setting in /etc/init.d/boot
654
6552.57d 03-Dec-1995
656- Added sulogin
657- Added "-b" flag to init, gives a shell before
658 anything else (in case the startup scripts are screwed)
659- Moved fastboot to /fastboot
660- Folded in Debian patches.
661- Removed old scripts
662- Added debian /etc/directory.
663
6642.57c 08-Oct-1995
665- Changed over to init_request (with initreq.h)
666- Processes no longer killed when "process" field
667 changes, change takes effect after next respawn.
668
6692.57b xx-Aug-1995
670- Bugfix release for Debian and Slackware 3.0
671
6722.57a 10-Jul-1995
673- Fixed race condition init init.c wrt got_chld
674- Fixed one-off for malloc in killall5.c
675- Changed dowall.c
676- Console code: no relink to /dev/systty on CTRL-ALT-DEL)
677
6782.57 22-May-1995
679- Changed a few things here and there, didn't
680 really document it :)
681
6822.55 17-Jan-1995
683- Added option to shutdown to run standalone.
684
6852.54 12-Jan-1995
686- Added GNU copyrigh to all *.[ch] files.
687- added /etc/initscript
688- reboot and halt now call shutdown in runlevels 1-5
689- Can run from read-only root (CDROM)
690
6912.53 10-Oct-1994
692- Renamed pidof to killall5, updated all scripts to
693 use killall5 instead of kill -1 ....
694- Rewrote scripts to use this, and some general changes.
695- Added SysV command line compatibility to shutdown.
696
6972.52 30-Aug-1994
698- Added `powerfailnow' keyword, for when UPS battery is low.
699- Updated `last'.
700- Fixed utmp handling (wrt. CLEAN_UTMP)
701TODO:
702* Make last compatible with GNU/BSD (long options?)
703* update powerd
704* remote SIGPWR broadcast? in powerd? (with priv. port)
705* remote shutdown
706
7072.50 14-Feb-1994
708- Ignores unknown command line arguments.
709- Modelled more after the "real" sysVinit
710- Lots of changes all over the place.
711 (like showing runlevel in "ps" listing, logging
712 runlevel into utmp file etc)
713- now using "reliable" signals instead of V7 style.
714- Updated all scripts. Examples are in two directories:
715 etc (normal) and etc-sysv (sysv style scripts).
716- runlevel 0 = halt, 1 = single user, 6 = reboot.
717- added support for serial console.
718- updated Propaganda, manpages.
719- added shutdown access control.
720
7212.4 24-May-93
722- Send out the official version into the world as
723 SysVinit-2.4.tar.z.
724
7252.4g 15-May-93
726- Changed init to really catch SIGPWR 'cause we
727 hooked up an UPS to the Linux machine. The
728 keyword for catching the TreeFingerSalute is
729 now "ctrlaltdel" instead of "power{wait,fail}".
730
7312.4a 22-Apr-93
732- Fixed last to reckognize BSD style wtmp logging.
733- Changed init to write wtmp records that are
734 SysV compliant but are also reckognized by the
735 BSD last. Added a '+' option to the 'process'
736 field of inittab, for getties that want to do
737 their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping (kludge!).
738- Now accepts a runlevel on the command line,
739 and reckognizes the 'auto' argument. (Sets the
740 environment variable AUTOBOOT to YES)
741
7422.2.3 24-Mar-93
743- Ripped out the 'leave' action. To difficult, and
744 unneeded.
745- Going single user now kills _all_ processes.
746- Added '-t secs' option to all commands.
747- This version is stable enough to post.
748
7492.2 02-Mar-93
750- Made wait()'s asynchronous
751- Changed whole thing to one big state machine
752- Now using 'pseudo levels' # & * for SYSINIT & BOOT
753- Added a new type of 'action', called leave. This
754 process will be executed when the system goes from a
755 runlevel specified in it's runlevel field to a
756 level that's not. Nice to bring down NFS and the like.
757
7582.1 28-Jan-93
759- Fixed a bug with 'boot' and 'once'.
760- Check 'initdefault' for validity.
761- Reckognizes "single" as command line argument.
762- Retries execvp with 'sh -c exec ..' if command
763 is a shell script. (shouldn't execvp do this?)
764- Added patches to use syslog if defined.
765
7662.0 08-Dec-92
767- Rewrote the code totally, so started with a new
768 version number.
769- Dropped Minix support, this code now is Linux - specific.
770- With TEST switch on, this init & telinit can
771 run standalone for test purposes.
772
7731.3, 05-Jul-92
774- Got a 386, so installed Linux. Added 'soft' reboot
775 to be default under linux. Fixed some typos.
776
7771.2, 16-Jun-92
778- Bugreport from Michael Haardt ; removed deadlock
779 and added 'waitpid' instead of 'wait' for SYSV.
780
7811.1, 30-Apr-92
782- Read manual wrong: there is no 'action' field called
783 process, but all entries are of type process. Every
784 'process' get exec'ed by /bin/sh -c 'exec command'.
785- Rapidly respawning processes are caught in the act.
786- _SYSV support is really Linux support,
787 done by poe@daimi.aau.dk on 25-Mar-92.
788
789 1.0, 01-Feb-92
790- Initial version, very primitive for the Minix
791 operating system. Required some mods. to the
792 kernel.
793