1 sysvinit (2.89dsf) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Correct fix for Debian bug #547073: use IUTF8 flag if defined
5 and if already set to make sure the utf-8 flag is not cleared
6 from the tty. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
7 * Include limits.h in killall.c to enforce definition of PATH_MAX
8 * Fix sysvinit bug #29758 Linker invocation should not contain
9 headers. Change based on patch from Elias Pipping.
10 * Add fix for Debian bug #580272: use return value 1 of
11 is_selinux_enabled() to determine if SELinux is enabled,
12 otherwise initialize SELinux and load the policy. Patch from
15 [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
16 * Next release will be 2.89dsf.
17 * Add #ifdef in bootlogd.c to avoid gcc warnings about unused
18 variable on non-linux platforms.
19 * Only set the VSWTC field for termios in init if it is available,
20 to get the source building on FreeBSD.
22 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010
24 sysvinit (2.88dsf) world; urgency=low
26 [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
27 * Mention new home on Savannah in README.
28 * Revert change from Fedora/RedHat where the now obsolete command
29 INIT_CMD_CHANGECONS was introduced. Based on feedback and patch
31 * Adjust makefile to make sure the install directories are created
32 before files are copied into them.
33 * Simplify build rules, based on patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
34 * Fix minor bug in optimizing of argument parsing. Based on
35 report from jakemus on freshmeat.
36 * Add casts to get rid of compiler warning about signed/unsigned issues.
37 * Change tty handling in init to make sure the UTF-8 flag is not cleared
38 on boot. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
39 * Add Makefile in toplevel directory.
40 * Print usage information when shutdown is used by non-root user.
41 Patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
42 * Sync shutdown manual page and usage information. Patch from Mike
44 * Fix race condition in utmp writing. Patch from Gil Kloepfer via
45 Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
46 * Rewrite findtty() in bootlogd to recursively search /dev/ for the
47 correct device, to handle terminal devices for example in /dev/pty/.
49 * Make sure bootlogd findpty() returns an error value when it fails to
50 find a usable pty. Patch from Rob Leslie via Debian.
51 * Make sure bootlogd fflush() every line, even if asked not to flush
52 to disk using fdatasync(). Patch from Scott Gifford via Debian.
53 * Add compatibility code to handle old path "/etc/powerstatus" for a
55 * Incude definition for MNT_DETACH which is missing in older GNU libc
57 * Do not strip binaries before installing them, to make it easier to
58 get binaries with debug information installed.
61 * Add the comment from Andrea Arcangeli about the correct
62 place of setting the default childhandler within spawn().
63 * Make sure that newline is printed out for last(1) even
64 if an utmp record entry is truncated.
65 * Check if utmp not only exists but also is writable and delay
66 writing out of the utmp runlevel record if utmp is not writable.
67 * Be able to find libcrypt also on 64 bit based architectures.
68 * Add option -w to the last command to display the full user and
69 domain names in the output. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
70 * Add a manual page for utmpdump as this tool is sometimes
71 very useful even if not intended for normal use.
72 * Use paths.h macros for wall
73 * Change path "/etc/powerstatus" to "/var/run/powerstatus"
74 * Detected also removable block devices at halt/reboot to be able
75 to flush data and send them the ATA standby command. This should
76 avoid data loss on USB sticks and other removable block devices.
77 * Flush block devices on halt/reboot if not done by the kernel.
78 * Set SHELL to /bin/sh in the environmant of shutdown.
79 * Retry to write out shutdown messages if interrupted.
80 * pidof/killall5 - make omit pid list a dynamic one.
81 * pidof - provide '-n' to skip stat(2) syscall on network based FS.
82 * init - avoid compiler warnings
83 * init - initialize console by using the macros from ttydefaults.h
84 * init - add the possiblity to ignore further interrupts from keyboard
85 * init - add the possiblity to set sane terminal line settings
86 * sulogin - add the possibility to reset the terminal io
87 * Fix some minor problems
88 * init - enable is_selinux_enabled() to detect selinuxfs
89 * Add fix for Debian bug #536574 -- Can be enabled by -DACCTON_OFF
90 * Add helper program fstab-decode to make it easier to handle
91 /etc/mtab content. Patch by Miloslav Trmac and Fedora.
92 * Add fix for Debian bug #335023 - Make sure TERM is set on FreeBSD.
93 * Add fix for Debian bug #374038 - Make it clear that shutdown -c can
94 only cancel a waiting shutdown, not an active one.
95 * Add note to pidof manual page about the use of readlink(2). Patch by
96 Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
97 * Add PAM patch contrib/notify-pam-dead.patch based on Debian bug
98 #68621, which will add PAM support for programs spawned by init on
99 the console like sulogin. Based on patch by Topi Miettinen. This
100 patch is not applied by default yet while we review its
101 usefullness. It is only helpful for session handling, as sulogin
102 do not use and will not use a PAM conv() function. The current
103 sulogin is able to handle DES as well as MD5, SHA, and Blowfish
104 encrypted passwords due using getpwnam(3).
105 * Move utmp/wtmp before the execvp() in spawn() to be sure to
106 use the correct pid even on a controlling tty
107 * Remaining problem is that the pid of the second fork() for
108 getting a controlling tty isn't that reported by spawn()
109 * Re-enable writting utmp/wtmp for boot scripts
110 * Extend sulogin to support additional encryption algorithms
111 * Re-enable maintenance message of sulogin
112 * Enable the sulogin fallback password check to handle MD5, SHA, and
113 Blowfish encrypted passwords in case of getpwnam(3) fails.
114 * sulogin picking the SELinux context was broken. Patch by Daniel Walsh
116 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010
118 sysvinit (2.87dsf) world; urgency=low
120 * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
121 * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
122 * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
123 * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
124 * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
125 Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
126 * Adjust output from "last -x". In reboot lines, print endpoint
127 of uptime too. In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
128 the time between downs. Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
129 Patch by Thomas Hood.
130 * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last. Patch from Fedora.
131 * Document last options in usage information, previously only
132 mentioned in the manual page.
133 * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
134 of the short form provided by default. Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
136 * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
138 * Increase the compiler warning level when building.
139 * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Bill
140 Nottingham and Fedora.
141 * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
142 Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
143 * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
144 the new process. Patch from RedHat.
145 * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
146 re-exec. Patch from RedHat.
147 * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
148 boot. Patch from SuSe.
149 * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6. Patch from Thomas Hood.
150 * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink. Patch from
152 * Improve error message from init if fork() fail. Patch found in Suse.
153 * Add support for SE Linux capability handling. Patch from Manoj
154 Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
155 the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
156 * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
157 process root. Ignore -c when not running as root. Patch from
158 Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
159 * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
160 process name can be one character longer. Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
161 * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
162 the child successfully.
163 * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
164 fdatasync(). Patch from Thomas Hood.
165 * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
166 not exist. Patch from Thomas Hood.
167 * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA. Patch
169 * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
170 value is usable on re-exec. Patch from Thomas Hood.
171 * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
172 to reschedule. Patch from SuSe.
173 * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
174 * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
175 and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option. Patch from
177 * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
178 Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
179 * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly. Patches
180 from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
181 * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
182 string lengths. Patch from SuSe.
183 * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
184 * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake. Patch from SuSe.
185 * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
186 processes to kill. Patch from Debian.
187 * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
188 some pids during shutdown. Based on patch from Colin Watson and
190 * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages. Patch from Debian.
191 * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
192 changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
193 avoiding stat() when the value isn't used. Also, lock process
194 pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
195 Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
197 * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
198 and document this requirement in the manual page.
199 * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
200 Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
201 * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
202 shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.
204 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
206 sysvinit (2.86) cistron; urgency=low
208 * Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal
209 linebuffer to process \r, \t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
210 * Applied trivial OWL patches
211 * Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
212 (James Olin Oden <joden@malachi.lee.k12.nc.us>, redhat bug #97534)
213 * Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
214 * killall5 now skips kernel threads
215 * Inittab entries with both 'S' and other runlevels were broken.
216 Fix by Bryan Kadzban <bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
217 * Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
218 * You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in
219 init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only
220 variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
221 16 variables. There's also a length limit due to the size
222 of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
223 * Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and
224 INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
225 * Add "mountpoint" utility.
226 * Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
227 * Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t,
228 sulogin-message, user-console)
230 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
232 sysvinit (2.85) cistron; urgency=low
234 * Add IPv6 support in last(1)
235 * Sulogin: even if the root password is empty, ask for a password-
236 otherwise there is no way to set a timeout.
237 * Removed support for ioctl.save.
238 * Turned of support for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/run/initrunlvl
239 * Fixed warts in dowall.c ("Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>)
240 * Fix init.c::spawn(). The "f" variable was used both as file descriptor
241 and waitpid(2) return code. In certain circumstances, this leads to
242 TIOCSCTTY with wrong file descriptor (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
243 * Fix fd leak in sulogin (Dmitry V. Levin).
244 * More error checking in all wait() calling code (Dmitry V. Levin).
245 * Fix argv[] initialization in spawn() (Dmitry V. Levin).
246 * Change strncpy to strncat in most places (Dmitry V. Levin).
248 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:37:57 +0200
250 sysvinit (2.84) cistron; urgency=low
252 * Don't use /etc/initlvl interface for telinit; only use /dev/initctl,
253 and give a clear error when that fails.
254 * Add -i/--init command line flag to init - this tells init
255 'behave as system init even if you're not PID#1'. Useful for
256 testing in chroot/jail type environments.
258 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:10:08 +0100
260 sysvinit (2.83) cistron; urgency=low
262 * Fix bug in shutdown where it didn't check correctly for a
263 virtual console when checking /etc/shutdown.allow
264 * Fix race condition in waitpid() [Andrea Arcangeli]
265 * Call closelog() after openlog()/syslog() since recent libc's
266 keep the logging fd open and that is fd#0 aka stdin.
268 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:27:06 +0200
270 sysvinit (2.82) cistron; urgency=low
272 * Print out correct version number at startup.
273 * Fix spelling of initttab in init(8)
275 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:50:44 +0200
277 sysvinit (2.81) cistron; urgency=low
279 * Fix typo/bug in killall5/pidof, -o option failed to work since 2.79.
280 Reformatted source code to prevent this from happening again.
281 * shutdown.8: applied redhat manpage update
282 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sulogin-nologin.patch
283 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-notty.patch
284 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
286 sysvinit (2.80) cistron; urgency=low
288 * Grammar/spelling fixes in shutdown.c (Christian Steinrueck)
289 * Don't set controlling tty for non-(sysinit,boot,single) runlevels
291 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:26:56 +0200
293 sysvinit (2.79) cistron; urgency=low
295 * New upstream version
296 * several fixes to wall by Tim Robbins <fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org>
297 * Several extra boundary checks by Solar Designer
298 * Make /dev/console controlling tty
299 * Stricter checks on ownership of tty by mesg(1)
300 * Documented and restricted -n option to wall(1)
301 * Make it compile with glibc 2.2.2
302 * Document IO redirection in wall manpage (closes: #79491)
303 * Update README (closes: #85650)
304 * Fix init.8 manpage (closes: #75268)
305 * Fix typo in halt(8) manpage (closes: #67875)
306 * Check time argument of shutdown(8) for correctness (closes: #67825)
307 * Check for stale sessions in last(1) (Chris Wolf <cwolf@starclass.com>)
309 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:04:36 +0200
311 sysvinit (2.78-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
313 * Change "booting" to "reloading" message at reload
314 * Add "-z xxx" dummy command line argument (closes: #54717)
316 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:17:54 +0100
318 sysvinit (2.78-1) unstable; urgency=low
320 * 2.78 will be the new upstream version, I'm skipping 2.77
321 * Shutdown now calls sync before switching the runlevel to 0 or 6,
322 or before unmounting filesystems if -n was used (closes: #46461)
323 * Some cosmetic changes to init.c (closes: #32079)
325 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:40:23 +0100
327 sysvinit (2.77-2) unstable; urgency=low
331 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
333 sysvinit (2.77-1) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Write reboot record into utmp file as well to make rms happy
336 * Fork and dump core in / if SIGSEGV is received for debugging purposes
337 * Patch by Craig Sanders <cas@vicnet.net.au> for "last" -i option
339 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:16:23 +0200
341 sysvinit (2.76-4) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Change dowall.c to handle Unix98 ptys correctly
344 * Add comment in rcS about usage of setup.sh and unconfigured.sh
345 * Shutdown now removes nologin file just before calling telinit
346 * SEGV handler now tries to continue after sleep of 30 seconds.
347 On a 386-class processor it also prints out the value of EIP.
348 * Fix for racecondition in check_init_fifo() by Richard Gooch
350 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 8 May 1999 17:22:57 +0200
352 sysvinit (2.76-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
354 * Small bugfix to last.c courtesy of Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.ml.org>
356 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:44 +0100
358 sysvinit (2.76-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
360 * Fix bug in check_pipe() which crashes init on the Alpha.
362 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:09:13 +0100
364 sysvinit (2.75-4) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Change sulogin password buffer to 128 characters.
367 * Don't print control characters in dowall.c
368 * Try to open getenv ("CONSOLE"), /dev/console and /dev/tty0 in order.
369 For backwards compatibility when you try to boot a 2.0.x kernel
370 with a linux > 2.1.70 /dev/console device.
371 * Change src/Makefile for non-debian systems (mainly, RedHat)
372 * Try to create /dev/initctl if not present; check every time to see
373 if the dev/ino of /dev/initctl has changed and re-open it. This should
375 * Send SIGUSR1 to init at bootup to let it re-open /dev/initctl;
376 again in support of devfs.
377 * Moved pidof to /bin (it's only a link to killall5 anyway)
379 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:03:14 +0200
381 sysvinit (2.75-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
384 * Add check to see if /dev/initctl is really a FIFO
385 * In ifdown.c first down all shaper devices then the real devices
387 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200
389 sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
391 * Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
392 thanks to Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> and
393 David Parrish <dparrish@zeta.org.au>
395 #21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
396 #21765: sysvinit: Typo in `killall5.c'
397 #21775: sysvinit: sysvinit does not support MD5 hashed passwords
398 #21990: /usr/bin/last: unnecessary memset and off-by-one bug
399 #22084: sysvinit 2.74-4: SIGPWR missing on sparc
400 #21900: init, powerfail events, and shutdown.allow
401 #21702: init 0 does not work as expected...
402 #21728: sysvinit: Typo in `init.c'
403 #22363: sysvinit: discrepance btw. manpage and /sbin/init
405 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29 +0200
407 sysvinit (2.74-4) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
409 * Add -o option to last to process libc5 utmp files.
410 * Buffer overflow fixed in init.c (not very serious; only exploitable
411 by root). Thanks to Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
413 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:04:33 +0200
415 sysvinit (2.74-1) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Should compile with glibc 1.99 :)
418 * Change behaviour of reboot(1) and halt(1) so that the default when
419 the runlevel can't be determined is to call shutdown.
420 * Added re-exec patch from Al Viro (21 Feb 1998):
421 'U' flag added to telinit. It forces init to re-exec itself
422 (passing its state through exec, certainly).
423 May be useful for smoother (heh) upgrades.
425 did_boot made global and added to state - thanks, Miquel.
426 Yet another file descriptors leak - close state pipe if
429 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:42:46 +0100
431 sysvinit (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Change _NSIG to NSIG for 2.1.x kernel includes.
435 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:01:02 +0100
437 sysvinit (2.73-1) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Use siginterrupt, now that system calls are restarted by default.
440 Main symptom was that the sulogin timeout didn't work but there
441 might have been more hidden problems.
442 * Kill process immidiately if turned off in inittab
443 * Fixed sulogin check on tty arg.
444 * Use strerror() instead of sys_errlist
445 * wall now supports a '-n' option to suppress [most of] the banner.
446 Debian doesn't use sysvinit's wall, but apparently Redhat does.
447 * Add '-F' (forcefsck) option to shutdown
448 * Close and reopen /dev/initctl on SIGUSR1 (mainly for a /dev in ram)
450 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:32:39 +0100
452 sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
456 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:00 +0200
458 sysvinit (2.72) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Applied manual page patches by Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>. Thanks Bill!
461 * Applied patches to the sample Slackware scripts by
462 "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
463 * Fix halt and reboot runlevels 0 & 6 check.
464 * Only say "no more processes left in runlevel x" once
465 * Fix race condition with SIGCHLD in spawn()
466 (thanks to Alon Ziv <alonz@CS.Technion.AC.IL>)
467 * Compress all manpages (missed 2)
469 * Added poweroff patch by Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>
471 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:20:17 +0200
473 sysvinit (2.71-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
475 * Print 2.71 instead of 2.70 on startup :)
477 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 May 1997 12:45:25 +0200
479 sysvinit (2.71-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
481 * Added code for updwtmp() in utmp.c for glibc (2.0.3)
482 * Fixed all programs to use functions from utmp.c and getutent()
483 * Do not try to clean up utmp in init itself (Bug#9022)
484 * Removed sync() from main loop.
485 * Hopefully fixes bug #8657 (shutdown signal handling)
487 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:27 +0200
489 sysvinit (2.70-1) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Removed StUdLy CaPs from source code
493 * Moved files in source archive around
494 * Fixes for glibc (utmp handling, signal handling).
495 * Fixed '-d' option to last (now also works without '-a').
496 * Added extra checking in last.c to prevent showing dead entries
498 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:31:30 +0100
500 sysvinit (2.69-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
502 * Fixed bug that can throw X in a loop (or any other app that reads from
505 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:32:24 +0100
507 sysvinit (2.67-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
509 * Fixes problem with /dev/console being controlling terminal of some
511 * Puts copyright file in the right place
513 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:23:33 +0100
515 sysvinit (2.66-1) unstable; urgency=medium
517 * Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
519 * Also compiles and runs with GNU libc (and on the Alpha)
520 * Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
521 * Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
522 * Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
523 * Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait
524 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
525 * Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
526 /var/log and /etc itself.
528 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:46:54 +0100
531 - Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
533 - Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
534 - Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
535 - Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
536 - Ported to Linux/Alpha and GNU libc.
537 - Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait.
538 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
539 - Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
540 /var/log and /etc itself.
543 - Init checks CONSOLE environment variable on startup (overrides /dev/console)
544 - Init sets CONSOLE variable for all its children.
545 - Wtmp(): when zeroing out old utmp entries, keep ut_id field
546 - Wtmp(): try to re-use ut_id field if possible.
547 - SetTerm(): only read from /etc/ioctl.save if written once.
548 - Included start-stop-daemon, C version (source only).
549 - Fixed wait() for the emergency shell.
550 - killall5: ignore signal before doing kill(-1, pid).
553 - Fixed preinst script for Debian
554 - Fixed init.c to become init daemon if name is init.new
555 - Fixed pidof to not return PIDs of shell scripts
558 - Changed debian /etc/init.d/boot script to create a nologin file
559 at boot and to remove it just before going multiuser.
562 - Decided to release a 2.62 version with a BIG WARNING about upgrading
563 init in it. Will send a patch to Linus for the linux/Documentation/Changes
564 file so that 2.62 or later is mentioned as the version to upgrade to.
565 - Added docs for Slackware
568 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/network for the lo device.
569 - Added "-xdev" to the cd /tmp && find in debian/etc/init.d/boot
570 - Made remove time for files in /tmp configurable.
573 - Changed /etc/init.d/boot script again
574 - Fixed problem in init.c with trailing whitespace after entries in inittab
575 - Fixed killall5 problems
576 - Added manpage for lastb
577 - Added SHELL= environment variable to sulogin
578 - Fixed sulogin & shadow problems
579 - Added timeout option to sulogin
582 - Fixed sulogin (didn't work if root wasn't first entry in shadow file)
583 - Fixed mesg for systems with "tty" group (such as Debian)
584 - Fixed nsyslog() in killall5.c
587 - Fixed race condition in init.c, resulting in hanging shutdowns.
588 Courtesy of Max Neunhoeffer <Max.Neunhoeffer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.
589 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/boot for swapon and mdadd
590 - Added architecture to debian.control
591 - Added manpages for rc.boot and rc.local
592 - Updated inittab manpage for 4-character runlevel field
593 - Added debian replaces for bsdutils < version_without_mesg
594 - Fixed init.c so that it also works with kernels 1.3.81 and up
597 - Init logs less to syslog (suspected to hang in syslog() or openlog() )
598 - removed closelog() from init.c
599 - removed time check of runlevel record in halt.
600 - Added options to last to get hostname from ut_addr field
601 - Added last and mesg to installation targets
602 - rewrote /etc/init.d/boot a bit.
605 - Changed etc/init.d/rc to do a stty onlcr
606 - Added /var/log/initrunlvl symlink
609 - Added the latest debian files.
610 - Added support for 4-character id fields (if you have libc5).
611 - Fixed pidof (in killall5) parsing of /proc/.../stat
612 - Save restore GMT setting in /etc/init.d/boot
616 - Added "-b" flag to init, gives a shell before
617 anything else (in case the startup scripts are screwed)
618 - Moved fastboot to /fastboot
619 - Folded in Debian patches.
620 - Removed old scripts
621 - Added debian /etc/directory.
624 - Changed over to init_request (with initreq.h)
625 - Processes no longer killed when "process" field
626 changes, change takes effect after next respawn.
629 - Bugfix release for Debian and Slackware 3.0
632 - Fixed race condition init init.c wrt got_chld
633 - Fixed one-off for malloc in killall5.c
635 - Console code: no relink to /dev/systty on CTRL-ALT-DEL)
638 - Changed a few things here and there, didn't
639 really document it :)
642 - Added option to shutdown to run standalone.
645 - Added GNU copyrigh to all *.[ch] files.
646 - added /etc/initscript
647 - reboot and halt now call shutdown in runlevels 1-5
648 - Can run from read-only root (CDROM)
651 - Renamed pidof to killall5, updated all scripts to
652 use killall5 instead of kill -1 ....
653 - Rewrote scripts to use this, and some general changes.
654 - Added SysV command line compatibility to shutdown.
657 - Added `powerfailnow' keyword, for when UPS battery is low.
659 - Fixed utmp handling (wrt. CLEAN_UTMP)
661 * Make last compatible with GNU/BSD (long options?)
663 * remote SIGPWR broadcast? in powerd? (with priv. port)
667 - Ignores unknown command line arguments.
668 - Modelled more after the "real" sysVinit
669 - Lots of changes all over the place.
670 (like showing runlevel in "ps" listing, logging
671 runlevel into utmp file etc)
672 - now using "reliable" signals instead of V7 style.
673 - Updated all scripts. Examples are in two directories:
674 etc (normal) and etc-sysv (sysv style scripts).
675 - runlevel 0 = halt, 1 = single user, 6 = reboot.
676 - added support for serial console.
677 - updated Propaganda, manpages.
678 - added shutdown access control.
681 - Send out the official version into the world as
685 - Changed init to really catch SIGPWR 'cause we
686 hooked up an UPS to the Linux machine. The
687 keyword for catching the TreeFingerSalute is
688 now "ctrlaltdel" instead of "power{wait,fail}".
691 - Fixed last to reckognize BSD style wtmp logging.
692 - Changed init to write wtmp records that are
693 SysV compliant but are also reckognized by the
694 BSD last. Added a '+' option to the 'process'
695 field of inittab, for getties that want to do
696 their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping (kludge!).
697 - Now accepts a runlevel on the command line,
698 and reckognizes the 'auto' argument. (Sets the
699 environment variable AUTOBOOT to YES)
702 - Ripped out the 'leave' action. To difficult, and
704 - Going single user now kills _all_ processes.
705 - Added '-t secs' option to all commands.
706 - This version is stable enough to post.
709 - Made wait()'s asynchronous
710 - Changed whole thing to one big state machine
711 - Now using 'pseudo levels' # & * for SYSINIT & BOOT
712 - Added a new type of 'action', called leave. This
713 process will be executed when the system goes from a
714 runlevel specified in it's runlevel field to a
715 level that's not. Nice to bring down NFS and the like.
718 - Fixed a bug with 'boot' and 'once'.
719 - Check 'initdefault' for validity.
720 - Reckognizes "single" as command line argument.
721 - Retries execvp with 'sh -c exec ..' if command
722 is a shell script. (shouldn't execvp do this?)
723 - Added patches to use syslog if defined.
726 - Rewrote the code totally, so started with a new
728 - Dropped Minix support, this code now is Linux - specific.
729 - With TEST switch on, this init & telinit can
730 run standalone for test purposes.
733 - Got a 386, so installed Linux. Added 'soft' reboot
734 to be default under linux. Fixed some typos.
737 - Bugreport from Michael Haardt ; removed deadlock
738 and added 'waitpid' instead of 'wait' for SYSV.
741 - Read manual wrong: there is no 'action' field called
742 process, but all entries are of type process. Every
743 'process' get exec'ed by /bin/sh -c 'exec command'.
744 - Rapidly respawning processes are caught in the act.
745 - _SYSV support is really Linux support,
746 done by poe@daimi.aau.dk on 25-Mar-92.
749 - Initial version, very primitive for the Minix
750 operating system. Required some mods. to the