1 sysvinit (2.88dsf) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
4 * Mention new home on Savannah in README.
5 * Revert change from Fedora/RedHat where the now obsolete command
6 INIT_CMD_CHANGECONS was introduced. Based on feedback and patch
8 * Adjust makefile to make sure the install directories are created
9 before files are copied into them.
10 * Simplify build rules, based on patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
11 * Fix minor bug in optimizing of argument parsing. Based on
12 report from jakemus on freshmeat.
13 * Add casts to get rid of compiler warning about signed/unsigned issues.
14 * Change tty handling in init to make sure the UTF-8 flag is not cleared
15 on boot. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
16 * Add Makefile in toplevel directory.
17 * Print usage information when shutdown is used by non-root user.
18 Patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
19 * Sync shutdown manual page and usage information. Patch from Mike
21 * Fix race condition in utmp writing. Patch from Gil Kloepfer via
22 Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
23 * Rewrite findtty() in bootlogd to recursively search /dev/ for the
24 correct device, to handle terminal devices for example in /dev/pty/.
26 * Make sure bootlogd findpty() returns an error value when it fails to
27 find a usable pty. Patch from Rob Leslie via Debian.
28 * Make sure bootlogd fflush() every line, even if asked not to flush
29 to disk using fdatasync(). Patch from Scott Gifford via Debian.
32 * Add the comment from Andrea Arcangeli about the correct
33 place of setting the default childhandler within spawn().
34 * Make sure that newline is printed out for last(1) even
35 if an utmp record entry is truncated.
36 * Check if utmp not only exists but also is writable and delay
37 writing out of the utmp runlevel record if utmp is not writable.
38 * Be able to find libcrypt also on 64 bit based architectures.
39 * Add option -w to the last command to display the full user and
40 domain names in the output. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
41 * Add a manual page for utmpdump as this tool is sometimes
42 very useful even if not intended for normal use.
43 * Use paths.h macros for wall
44 * Change path "/etc/powerstatus" to "/var/run/powerstatus"
45 * Detected also removable block devices at halt/reboot to be able
46 to flush data and send them the ATA standby command. This should
47 avoid data loss on USB sticks and other removable block devices.
48 * Flush block devices on halt/reboot if not done by the kernel.
49 * Set SHELL to /bin/sh in the environmant of shutdown.
50 * Retry to write out shutdown messages if interrupted.
51 * pidof/killall5 - make omit pid list a dynamic one.
52 * pidof - provide '-n' to skip stat(2) syscall on network based FS.
53 * init - avoid compiler warnings
54 * init - initialize console by using the macros from ttydefaults.h
55 * init - add the possiblity to ignore further interrupts from keyboard
56 * init - add the possiblity to set sane terminal line settings
57 * sulogin - add the possibility to reset the terminal io
58 * Fix some minor problems
59 * init - enable is_selinux_enabled() to detect selinuxfs
60 * Add fix for Debian bug #536574 -- Can be enabled by -DACCTON_OFF
61 * Add helper program fstab-decode to make it easier to handle
62 /etc/mtab content. Patch by Miloslav Trmac and Fedora.
63 * Add fix for Debian bug #335023 - Make sure TERM is set on FreeBSD.
64 * Add fix for Debian bug #374038 - Make it clear that shutdown -c can
65 only cancel a waiting shutdown, not an active one.
66 * Add note to pidof manual page about the use of readlink(2). Patch by
67 Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
68 * Add changes for Debian bug #68621 - Add PAM support for programs spawned
69 by init on the console like sulogin. Based on patch by Topi Miettinen.
70 * Test out PAM support, extend PAM support by providing environment
71 is specified by /etc/pam.d/init
72 * Move utmp/wtmp before the execvp() in spawn() to be sure to
73 use the correct pid even on a controlling tty
74 * Remaining problem is that the pid of the second fork() for
75 getting a controlling tty isn't that reported by spawn()
76 * Re-enable writting utmp/wtmp for boot scripts
77 * Provide a simply /etc/pam.d/init as without it will not work (sigh!)
78 * Extend sulogin to support additional encryption algorithms
79 * Re-enable maintenance message of sulogin
80 * Remove PAM session start part from init as sulogin do not use
81 and will not use a PAM conv() function. The current sulogin
82 is able to handle DES as well as MD5, SHA, and Blowfish encrypted
83 passwords due using getpwnam(3).
84 * Enable the sulogin fallback password check to handle MD5, SHA, and
85 Blowfish encrypted passwords in case of getpwnam(3) fails.
87 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
89 sysvinit (2.87dsf) world; urgency=low
91 * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
92 * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
93 * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
94 * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
95 * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
96 Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
97 * Adjust output from "last -x". In reboot lines, print endpoint
98 of uptime too. In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
99 the time between downs. Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
100 Patch by Thomas Hood.
101 * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last. Patch from Fedora.
102 * Document last options in usage information, previously only
103 mentioned in the manual page.
104 * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
105 of the short form provided by default. Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
107 * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
109 * Increase the compiler warning level when building.
110 * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Bill
111 Nottingham and Fedora.
112 * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
113 Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
114 * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
115 the new process. Patch from RedHat.
116 * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
117 re-exec. Patch from RedHat.
118 * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
119 boot. Patch from SuSe.
120 * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6. Patch from Thomas Hood.
121 * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink. Patch from
123 * Improve error message from init if fork() fail. Patch found in Suse.
124 * Add support for SE Linux capability handling. Patch from Manoj
125 Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
126 the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
127 * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
128 process root. Ignore -c when not running as root. Patch from
129 Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
130 * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
131 process name can be one character longer. Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
132 * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
133 the child successfully.
134 * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
135 fdatasync(). Patch from Thomas Hood.
136 * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
137 not exist. Patch from Thomas Hood.
138 * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA. Patch
140 * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
141 value is usable on re-exec. Patch from Thomas Hood.
142 * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
143 to reschedule. Patch from SuSe.
144 * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
145 * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
146 and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option. Patch from
148 * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
149 Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
150 * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly. Patches
151 from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
152 * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
153 string lengths. Patch from SuSe.
154 * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
155 * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake. Patch from SuSe.
156 * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
157 processes to kill. Patch from Debian.
158 * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
159 some pids during shutdown. Based on patch from Colin Watson and
161 * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages. Patch from Debian.
162 * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
163 changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
164 avoiding stat() when the value isn't used. Also, lock process
165 pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
166 Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
168 * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
169 and document this requirement in the manual page.
170 * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
171 Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
172 * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
173 shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.
175 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
177 sysvinit (2.86) cistron; urgency=low
179 * Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal
180 linebuffer to process \r, \t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
181 * Applied trivial OWL patches
182 * Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
183 (James Olin Oden <joden@malachi.lee.k12.nc.us>, redhat bug #97534)
184 * Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
185 * killall5 now skips kernel threads
186 * Inittab entries with both 'S' and other runlevels were broken.
187 Fix by Bryan Kadzban <bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
188 * Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
189 * You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in
190 init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only
191 variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
192 16 variables. There's also a length limit due to the size
193 of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
194 * Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and
195 INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
196 * Add "mountpoint" utility.
197 * Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
198 * Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t,
199 sulogin-message, user-console)
201 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
203 sysvinit (2.85) cistron; urgency=low
205 * Add IPv6 support in last(1)
206 * Sulogin: even if the root password is empty, ask for a password-
207 otherwise there is no way to set a timeout.
208 * Removed support for ioctl.save.
209 * Turned of support for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/run/initrunlvl
210 * Fixed warts in dowall.c ("Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>)
211 * Fix init.c::spawn(). The "f" variable was used both as file descriptor
212 and waitpid(2) return code. In certain circumstances, this leads to
213 TIOCSCTTY with wrong file descriptor (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
214 * Fix fd leak in sulogin (Dmitry V. Levin).
215 * More error checking in all wait() calling code (Dmitry V. Levin).
216 * Fix argv[] initialization in spawn() (Dmitry V. Levin).
217 * Change strncpy to strncat in most places (Dmitry V. Levin).
219 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:37:57 +0200
221 sysvinit (2.84) cistron; urgency=low
223 * Don't use /etc/initlvl interface for telinit; only use /dev/initctl,
224 and give a clear error when that fails.
225 * Add -i/--init command line flag to init - this tells init
226 'behave as system init even if you're not PID#1'. Useful for
227 testing in chroot/jail type environments.
229 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:10:08 +0100
231 sysvinit (2.83) cistron; urgency=low
233 * Fix bug in shutdown where it didn't check correctly for a
234 virtual console when checking /etc/shutdown.allow
235 * Fix race condition in waitpid() [Andrea Arcangeli]
236 * Call closelog() after openlog()/syslog() since recent libc's
237 keep the logging fd open and that is fd#0 aka stdin.
239 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:27:06 +0200
241 sysvinit (2.82) cistron; urgency=low
243 * Print out correct version number at startup.
244 * Fix spelling of initttab in init(8)
246 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:50:44 +0200
248 sysvinit (2.81) cistron; urgency=low
250 * Fix typo/bug in killall5/pidof, -o option failed to work since 2.79.
251 Reformatted source code to prevent this from happening again.
252 * shutdown.8: applied redhat manpage update
253 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sulogin-nologin.patch
254 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-notty.patch
255 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
257 sysvinit (2.80) cistron; urgency=low
259 * Grammar/spelling fixes in shutdown.c (Christian Steinrueck)
260 * Don't set controlling tty for non-(sysinit,boot,single) runlevels
262 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:26:56 +0200
264 sysvinit (2.79) cistron; urgency=low
266 * New upstream version
267 * several fixes to wall by Tim Robbins <fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org>
268 * Several extra boundary checks by Solar Designer
269 * Make /dev/console controlling tty
270 * Stricter checks on ownership of tty by mesg(1)
271 * Documented and restricted -n option to wall(1)
272 * Make it compile with glibc 2.2.2
273 * Document IO redirection in wall manpage (closes: #79491)
274 * Update README (closes: #85650)
275 * Fix init.8 manpage (closes: #75268)
276 * Fix typo in halt(8) manpage (closes: #67875)
277 * Check time argument of shutdown(8) for correctness (closes: #67825)
278 * Check for stale sessions in last(1) (Chris Wolf <cwolf@starclass.com>)
280 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:04:36 +0200
282 sysvinit (2.78-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
284 * Change "booting" to "reloading" message at reload
285 * Add "-z xxx" dummy command line argument (closes: #54717)
287 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:17:54 +0100
289 sysvinit (2.78-1) unstable; urgency=low
291 * 2.78 will be the new upstream version, I'm skipping 2.77
292 * Shutdown now calls sync before switching the runlevel to 0 or 6,
293 or before unmounting filesystems if -n was used (closes: #46461)
294 * Some cosmetic changes to init.c (closes: #32079)
296 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:40:23 +0100
298 sysvinit (2.77-2) unstable; urgency=low
302 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
304 sysvinit (2.77-1) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Write reboot record into utmp file as well to make rms happy
307 * Fork and dump core in / if SIGSEGV is received for debugging purposes
308 * Patch by Craig Sanders <cas@vicnet.net.au> for "last" -i option
310 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:16:23 +0200
312 sysvinit (2.76-4) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Change dowall.c to handle Unix98 ptys correctly
315 * Add comment in rcS about usage of setup.sh and unconfigured.sh
316 * Shutdown now removes nologin file just before calling telinit
317 * SEGV handler now tries to continue after sleep of 30 seconds.
318 On a 386-class processor it also prints out the value of EIP.
319 * Fix for racecondition in check_init_fifo() by Richard Gooch
321 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 8 May 1999 17:22:57 +0200
323 sysvinit (2.76-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
325 * Small bugfix to last.c courtesy of Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.ml.org>
327 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:44 +0100
329 sysvinit (2.76-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
331 * Fix bug in check_pipe() which crashes init on the Alpha.
333 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:09:13 +0100
335 sysvinit (2.75-4) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Change sulogin password buffer to 128 characters.
338 * Don't print control characters in dowall.c
339 * Try to open getenv ("CONSOLE"), /dev/console and /dev/tty0 in order.
340 For backwards compatibility when you try to boot a 2.0.x kernel
341 with a linux > 2.1.70 /dev/console device.
342 * Change src/Makefile for non-debian systems (mainly, RedHat)
343 * Try to create /dev/initctl if not present; check every time to see
344 if the dev/ino of /dev/initctl has changed and re-open it. This should
346 * Send SIGUSR1 to init at bootup to let it re-open /dev/initctl;
347 again in support of devfs.
348 * Moved pidof to /bin (it's only a link to killall5 anyway)
350 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:03:14 +0200
352 sysvinit (2.75-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
355 * Add check to see if /dev/initctl is really a FIFO
356 * In ifdown.c first down all shaper devices then the real devices
358 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200
360 sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
362 * Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
363 thanks to Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> and
364 David Parrish <dparrish@zeta.org.au>
366 #21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
367 #21765: sysvinit: Typo in `killall5.c'
368 #21775: sysvinit: sysvinit does not support MD5 hashed passwords
369 #21990: /usr/bin/last: unnecessary memset and off-by-one bug
370 #22084: sysvinit 2.74-4: SIGPWR missing on sparc
371 #21900: init, powerfail events, and shutdown.allow
372 #21702: init 0 does not work as expected...
373 #21728: sysvinit: Typo in `init.c'
374 #22363: sysvinit: discrepance btw. manpage and /sbin/init
376 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29 +0200
378 sysvinit (2.74-4) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
380 * Add -o option to last to process libc5 utmp files.
381 * Buffer overflow fixed in init.c (not very serious; only exploitable
382 by root). Thanks to Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
384 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:04:33 +0200
386 sysvinit (2.74-1) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Should compile with glibc 1.99 :)
389 * Change behaviour of reboot(1) and halt(1) so that the default when
390 the runlevel can't be determined is to call shutdown.
391 * Added re-exec patch from Al Viro (21 Feb 1998):
392 'U' flag added to telinit. It forces init to re-exec itself
393 (passing its state through exec, certainly).
394 May be useful for smoother (heh) upgrades.
396 did_boot made global and added to state - thanks, Miquel.
397 Yet another file descriptors leak - close state pipe if
400 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:42:46 +0100
402 sysvinit (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Change _NSIG to NSIG for 2.1.x kernel includes.
406 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:01:02 +0100
408 sysvinit (2.73-1) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Use siginterrupt, now that system calls are restarted by default.
411 Main symptom was that the sulogin timeout didn't work but there
412 might have been more hidden problems.
413 * Kill process immidiately if turned off in inittab
414 * Fixed sulogin check on tty arg.
415 * Use strerror() instead of sys_errlist
416 * wall now supports a '-n' option to suppress [most of] the banner.
417 Debian doesn't use sysvinit's wall, but apparently Redhat does.
418 * Add '-F' (forcefsck) option to shutdown
419 * Close and reopen /dev/initctl on SIGUSR1 (mainly for a /dev in ram)
421 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:32:39 +0100
423 sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
427 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:00 +0200
429 sysvinit (2.72) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Applied manual page patches by Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>. Thanks Bill!
432 * Applied patches to the sample Slackware scripts by
433 "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
434 * Fix halt and reboot runlevels 0 & 6 check.
435 * Only say "no more processes left in runlevel x" once
436 * Fix race condition with SIGCHLD in spawn()
437 (thanks to Alon Ziv <alonz@CS.Technion.AC.IL>)
438 * Compress all manpages (missed 2)
440 * Added poweroff patch by Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>
442 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:20:17 +0200
444 sysvinit (2.71-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
446 * Print 2.71 instead of 2.70 on startup :)
448 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 May 1997 12:45:25 +0200
450 sysvinit (2.71-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
452 * Added code for updwtmp() in utmp.c for glibc (2.0.3)
453 * Fixed all programs to use functions from utmp.c and getutent()
454 * Do not try to clean up utmp in init itself (Bug#9022)
455 * Removed sync() from main loop.
456 * Hopefully fixes bug #8657 (shutdown signal handling)
458 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:27 +0200
460 sysvinit (2.70-1) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Removed StUdLy CaPs from source code
464 * Moved files in source archive around
465 * Fixes for glibc (utmp handling, signal handling).
466 * Fixed '-d' option to last (now also works without '-a').
467 * Added extra checking in last.c to prevent showing dead entries
469 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:31:30 +0100
471 sysvinit (2.69-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
473 * Fixed bug that can throw X in a loop (or any other app that reads from
476 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:32:24 +0100
478 sysvinit (2.67-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
480 * Fixes problem with /dev/console being controlling terminal of some
482 * Puts copyright file in the right place
484 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:23:33 +0100
486 sysvinit (2.66-1) unstable; urgency=medium
488 * Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
490 * Also compiles and runs with GNU libc (and on the Alpha)
491 * Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
492 * Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
493 * Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
494 * Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait
495 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
496 * Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
497 /var/log and /etc itself.
499 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:46:54 +0100
502 - Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
504 - Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
505 - Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
506 - Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
507 - Ported to Linux/Alpha and GNU libc.
508 - Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait.
509 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
510 - Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
511 /var/log and /etc itself.
514 - Init checks CONSOLE environment variable on startup (overrides /dev/console)
515 - Init sets CONSOLE variable for all its children.
516 - Wtmp(): when zeroing out old utmp entries, keep ut_id field
517 - Wtmp(): try to re-use ut_id field if possible.
518 - SetTerm(): only read from /etc/ioctl.save if written once.
519 - Included start-stop-daemon, C version (source only).
520 - Fixed wait() for the emergency shell.
521 - killall5: ignore signal before doing kill(-1, pid).
524 - Fixed preinst script for Debian
525 - Fixed init.c to become init daemon if name is init.new
526 - Fixed pidof to not return PIDs of shell scripts
529 - Changed debian /etc/init.d/boot script to create a nologin file
530 at boot and to remove it just before going multiuser.
533 - Decided to release a 2.62 version with a BIG WARNING about upgrading
534 init in it. Will send a patch to Linus for the linux/Documentation/Changes
535 file so that 2.62 or later is mentioned as the version to upgrade to.
536 - Added docs for Slackware
539 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/network for the lo device.
540 - Added "-xdev" to the cd /tmp && find in debian/etc/init.d/boot
541 - Made remove time for files in /tmp configurable.
544 - Changed /etc/init.d/boot script again
545 - Fixed problem in init.c with trailing whitespace after entries in inittab
546 - Fixed killall5 problems
547 - Added manpage for lastb
548 - Added SHELL= environment variable to sulogin
549 - Fixed sulogin & shadow problems
550 - Added timeout option to sulogin
553 - Fixed sulogin (didn't work if root wasn't first entry in shadow file)
554 - Fixed mesg for systems with "tty" group (such as Debian)
555 - Fixed nsyslog() in killall5.c
558 - Fixed race condition in init.c, resulting in hanging shutdowns.
559 Courtesy of Max Neunhoeffer <Max.Neunhoeffer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.
560 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/boot for swapon and mdadd
561 - Added architecture to debian.control
562 - Added manpages for rc.boot and rc.local
563 - Updated inittab manpage for 4-character runlevel field
564 - Added debian replaces for bsdutils < version_without_mesg
565 - Fixed init.c so that it also works with kernels 1.3.81 and up
568 - Init logs less to syslog (suspected to hang in syslog() or openlog() )
569 - removed closelog() from init.c
570 - removed time check of runlevel record in halt.
571 - Added options to last to get hostname from ut_addr field
572 - Added last and mesg to installation targets
573 - rewrote /etc/init.d/boot a bit.
576 - Changed etc/init.d/rc to do a stty onlcr
577 - Added /var/log/initrunlvl symlink
580 - Added the latest debian files.
581 - Added support for 4-character id fields (if you have libc5).
582 - Fixed pidof (in killall5) parsing of /proc/.../stat
583 - Save restore GMT setting in /etc/init.d/boot
587 - Added "-b" flag to init, gives a shell before
588 anything else (in case the startup scripts are screwed)
589 - Moved fastboot to /fastboot
590 - Folded in Debian patches.
591 - Removed old scripts
592 - Added debian /etc/directory.
595 - Changed over to init_request (with initreq.h)
596 - Processes no longer killed when "process" field
597 changes, change takes effect after next respawn.
600 - Bugfix release for Debian and Slackware 3.0
603 - Fixed race condition init init.c wrt got_chld
604 - Fixed one-off for malloc in killall5.c
606 - Console code: no relink to /dev/systty on CTRL-ALT-DEL)
609 - Changed a few things here and there, didn't
610 really document it :)
613 - Added option to shutdown to run standalone.
616 - Added GNU copyrigh to all *.[ch] files.
617 - added /etc/initscript
618 - reboot and halt now call shutdown in runlevels 1-5
619 - Can run from read-only root (CDROM)
622 - Renamed pidof to killall5, updated all scripts to
623 use killall5 instead of kill -1 ....
624 - Rewrote scripts to use this, and some general changes.
625 - Added SysV command line compatibility to shutdown.
628 - Added `powerfailnow' keyword, for when UPS battery is low.
630 - Fixed utmp handling (wrt. CLEAN_UTMP)
632 * Make last compatible with GNU/BSD (long options?)
634 * remote SIGPWR broadcast? in powerd? (with priv. port)
638 - Ignores unknown command line arguments.
639 - Modelled more after the "real" sysVinit
640 - Lots of changes all over the place.
641 (like showing runlevel in "ps" listing, logging
642 runlevel into utmp file etc)
643 - now using "reliable" signals instead of V7 style.
644 - Updated all scripts. Examples are in two directories:
645 etc (normal) and etc-sysv (sysv style scripts).
646 - runlevel 0 = halt, 1 = single user, 6 = reboot.
647 - added support for serial console.
648 - updated Propaganda, manpages.
649 - added shutdown access control.
652 - Send out the official version into the world as
656 - Changed init to really catch SIGPWR 'cause we
657 hooked up an UPS to the Linux machine. The
658 keyword for catching the TreeFingerSalute is
659 now "ctrlaltdel" instead of "power{wait,fail}".
662 - Fixed last to reckognize BSD style wtmp logging.
663 - Changed init to write wtmp records that are
664 SysV compliant but are also reckognized by the
665 BSD last. Added a '+' option to the 'process'
666 field of inittab, for getties that want to do
667 their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping (kludge!).
668 - Now accepts a runlevel on the command line,
669 and reckognizes the 'auto' argument. (Sets the
670 environment variable AUTOBOOT to YES)
673 - Ripped out the 'leave' action. To difficult, and
675 - Going single user now kills _all_ processes.
676 - Added '-t secs' option to all commands.
677 - This version is stable enough to post.
680 - Made wait()'s asynchronous
681 - Changed whole thing to one big state machine
682 - Now using 'pseudo levels' # & * for SYSINIT & BOOT
683 - Added a new type of 'action', called leave. This
684 process will be executed when the system goes from a
685 runlevel specified in it's runlevel field to a
686 level that's not. Nice to bring down NFS and the like.
689 - Fixed a bug with 'boot' and 'once'.
690 - Check 'initdefault' for validity.
691 - Reckognizes "single" as command line argument.
692 - Retries execvp with 'sh -c exec ..' if command
693 is a shell script. (shouldn't execvp do this?)
694 - Added patches to use syslog if defined.
697 - Rewrote the code totally, so started with a new
699 - Dropped Minix support, this code now is Linux - specific.
700 - With TEST switch on, this init & telinit can
701 run standalone for test purposes.
704 - Got a 386, so installed Linux. Added 'soft' reboot
705 to be default under linux. Fixed some typos.
708 - Bugreport from Michael Haardt ; removed deadlock
709 and added 'waitpid' instead of 'wait' for SYSV.
712 - Read manual wrong: there is no 'action' field called
713 process, but all entries are of type process. Every
714 'process' get exec'ed by /bin/sh -c 'exec command'.
715 - Rapidly respawning processes are caught in the act.
716 - _SYSV support is really Linux support,
717 done by poe@daimi.aau.dk on 25-Mar-92.
720 - Initial version, very primitive for the Minix
721 operating system. Required some mods. to the