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.
30 * Add compatibility code to handle old path "/etc/powerstatus" for a
32 * Incude definition for MNT_DETACH which is missing in older GNU libc
34 * Do not strip binaries before installing them, to make it easier to
35 get binaries with debug information installed.
38 * Add the comment from Andrea Arcangeli about the correct
39 place of setting the default childhandler within spawn().
40 * Make sure that newline is printed out for last(1) even
41 if an utmp record entry is truncated.
42 * Check if utmp not only exists but also is writable and delay
43 writing out of the utmp runlevel record if utmp is not writable.
44 * Be able to find libcrypt also on 64 bit based architectures.
45 * Add option -w to the last command to display the full user and
46 domain names in the output. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
47 * Add a manual page for utmpdump as this tool is sometimes
48 very useful even if not intended for normal use.
49 * Use paths.h macros for wall
50 * Change path "/etc/powerstatus" to "/var/run/powerstatus"
51 * Detected also removable block devices at halt/reboot to be able
52 to flush data and send them the ATA standby command. This should
53 avoid data loss on USB sticks and other removable block devices.
54 * Flush block devices on halt/reboot if not done by the kernel.
55 * Set SHELL to /bin/sh in the environmant of shutdown.
56 * Retry to write out shutdown messages if interrupted.
57 * pidof/killall5 - make omit pid list a dynamic one.
58 * pidof - provide '-n' to skip stat(2) syscall on network based FS.
59 * init - avoid compiler warnings
60 * init - initialize console by using the macros from ttydefaults.h
61 * init - add the possiblity to ignore further interrupts from keyboard
62 * init - add the possiblity to set sane terminal line settings
63 * sulogin - add the possibility to reset the terminal io
64 * Fix some minor problems
65 * init - enable is_selinux_enabled() to detect selinuxfs
66 * Add fix for Debian bug #536574 -- Can be enabled by -DACCTON_OFF
67 * Add helper program fstab-decode to make it easier to handle
68 /etc/mtab content. Patch by Miloslav Trmac and Fedora.
69 * Add fix for Debian bug #335023 - Make sure TERM is set on FreeBSD.
70 * Add fix for Debian bug #374038 - Make it clear that shutdown -c can
71 only cancel a waiting shutdown, not an active one.
72 * Add note to pidof manual page about the use of readlink(2). Patch by
73 Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
74 * Add PAM patch contrib/notify-pam-dead.patch based on Debian bug
75 #68621, which will add PAM support for programs spawned by init on
76 the console like sulogin. Based on patch by Topi Miettinen. This
77 patch is not applied by default yet while we review its
78 usefullness. It is only helpful for session handling, as sulogin
79 do not use and will not use a PAM conv() function. The current
80 sulogin is able to handle DES as well as MD5, SHA, and Blowfish
81 encrypted passwords due using getpwnam(3).
82 * Move utmp/wtmp before the execvp() in spawn() to be sure to
83 use the correct pid even on a controlling tty
84 * Remaining problem is that the pid of the second fork() for
85 getting a controlling tty isn't that reported by spawn()
86 * Re-enable writting utmp/wtmp for boot scripts
87 * Extend sulogin to support additional encryption algorithms
88 * Re-enable maintenance message of sulogin
89 * Enable the sulogin fallback password check to handle MD5, SHA, and
90 Blowfish encrypted passwords in case of getpwnam(3) fails.
91 * sulogin picking the SELinux context was broken. Patch by Daniel Walsh
93 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
95 sysvinit (2.87dsf) world; urgency=low
97 * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
98 * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
99 * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
100 * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
101 * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
102 Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
103 * Adjust output from "last -x". In reboot lines, print endpoint
104 of uptime too. In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
105 the time between downs. Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
106 Patch by Thomas Hood.
107 * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last. Patch from Fedora.
108 * Document last options in usage information, previously only
109 mentioned in the manual page.
110 * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
111 of the short form provided by default. Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
113 * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
115 * Increase the compiler warning level when building.
116 * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Bill
117 Nottingham and Fedora.
118 * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
119 Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
120 * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
121 the new process. Patch from RedHat.
122 * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
123 re-exec. Patch from RedHat.
124 * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
125 boot. Patch from SuSe.
126 * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6. Patch from Thomas Hood.
127 * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink. Patch from
129 * Improve error message from init if fork() fail. Patch found in Suse.
130 * Add support for SE Linux capability handling. Patch from Manoj
131 Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
132 the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
133 * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
134 process root. Ignore -c when not running as root. Patch from
135 Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
136 * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
137 process name can be one character longer. Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
138 * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
139 the child successfully.
140 * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
141 fdatasync(). Patch from Thomas Hood.
142 * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
143 not exist. Patch from Thomas Hood.
144 * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA. Patch
146 * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
147 value is usable on re-exec. Patch from Thomas Hood.
148 * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
149 to reschedule. Patch from SuSe.
150 * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
151 * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
152 and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option. Patch from
154 * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
155 Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
156 * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly. Patches
157 from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
158 * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
159 string lengths. Patch from SuSe.
160 * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
161 * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake. Patch from SuSe.
162 * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
163 processes to kill. Patch from Debian.
164 * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
165 some pids during shutdown. Based on patch from Colin Watson and
167 * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages. Patch from Debian.
168 * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
169 changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
170 avoiding stat() when the value isn't used. Also, lock process
171 pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
172 Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
174 * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
175 and document this requirement in the manual page.
176 * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
177 Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
178 * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
179 shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.
181 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
183 sysvinit (2.86) cistron; urgency=low
185 * Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal
186 linebuffer to process \r, \t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
187 * Applied trivial OWL patches
188 * Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
189 (James Olin Oden <joden@malachi.lee.k12.nc.us>, redhat bug #97534)
190 * Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
191 * killall5 now skips kernel threads
192 * Inittab entries with both 'S' and other runlevels were broken.
193 Fix by Bryan Kadzban <bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
194 * Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
195 * You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in
196 init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only
197 variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
198 16 variables. There's also a length limit due to the size
199 of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
200 * Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and
201 INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
202 * Add "mountpoint" utility.
203 * Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
204 * Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t,
205 sulogin-message, user-console)
207 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
209 sysvinit (2.85) cistron; urgency=low
211 * Add IPv6 support in last(1)
212 * Sulogin: even if the root password is empty, ask for a password-
213 otherwise there is no way to set a timeout.
214 * Removed support for ioctl.save.
215 * Turned of support for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/run/initrunlvl
216 * Fixed warts in dowall.c ("Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>)
217 * Fix init.c::spawn(). The "f" variable was used both as file descriptor
218 and waitpid(2) return code. In certain circumstances, this leads to
219 TIOCSCTTY with wrong file descriptor (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
220 * Fix fd leak in sulogin (Dmitry V. Levin).
221 * More error checking in all wait() calling code (Dmitry V. Levin).
222 * Fix argv[] initialization in spawn() (Dmitry V. Levin).
223 * Change strncpy to strncat in most places (Dmitry V. Levin).
225 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:37:57 +0200
227 sysvinit (2.84) cistron; urgency=low
229 * Don't use /etc/initlvl interface for telinit; only use /dev/initctl,
230 and give a clear error when that fails.
231 * Add -i/--init command line flag to init - this tells init
232 'behave as system init even if you're not PID#1'. Useful for
233 testing in chroot/jail type environments.
235 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:10:08 +0100
237 sysvinit (2.83) cistron; urgency=low
239 * Fix bug in shutdown where it didn't check correctly for a
240 virtual console when checking /etc/shutdown.allow
241 * Fix race condition in waitpid() [Andrea Arcangeli]
242 * Call closelog() after openlog()/syslog() since recent libc's
243 keep the logging fd open and that is fd#0 aka stdin.
245 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:27:06 +0200
247 sysvinit (2.82) cistron; urgency=low
249 * Print out correct version number at startup.
250 * Fix spelling of initttab in init(8)
252 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:50:44 +0200
254 sysvinit (2.81) cistron; urgency=low
256 * Fix typo/bug in killall5/pidof, -o option failed to work since 2.79.
257 Reformatted source code to prevent this from happening again.
258 * shutdown.8: applied redhat manpage update
259 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sulogin-nologin.patch
260 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-notty.patch
261 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
263 sysvinit (2.80) cistron; urgency=low
265 * Grammar/spelling fixes in shutdown.c (Christian Steinrueck)
266 * Don't set controlling tty for non-(sysinit,boot,single) runlevels
268 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:26:56 +0200
270 sysvinit (2.79) cistron; urgency=low
272 * New upstream version
273 * several fixes to wall by Tim Robbins <fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org>
274 * Several extra boundary checks by Solar Designer
275 * Make /dev/console controlling tty
276 * Stricter checks on ownership of tty by mesg(1)
277 * Documented and restricted -n option to wall(1)
278 * Make it compile with glibc 2.2.2
279 * Document IO redirection in wall manpage (closes: #79491)
280 * Update README (closes: #85650)
281 * Fix init.8 manpage (closes: #75268)
282 * Fix typo in halt(8) manpage (closes: #67875)
283 * Check time argument of shutdown(8) for correctness (closes: #67825)
284 * Check for stale sessions in last(1) (Chris Wolf <cwolf@starclass.com>)
286 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:04:36 +0200
288 sysvinit (2.78-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
290 * Change "booting" to "reloading" message at reload
291 * Add "-z xxx" dummy command line argument (closes: #54717)
293 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:17:54 +0100
295 sysvinit (2.78-1) unstable; urgency=low
297 * 2.78 will be the new upstream version, I'm skipping 2.77
298 * Shutdown now calls sync before switching the runlevel to 0 or 6,
299 or before unmounting filesystems if -n was used (closes: #46461)
300 * Some cosmetic changes to init.c (closes: #32079)
302 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:40:23 +0100
304 sysvinit (2.77-2) unstable; urgency=low
308 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
310 sysvinit (2.77-1) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Write reboot record into utmp file as well to make rms happy
313 * Fork and dump core in / if SIGSEGV is received for debugging purposes
314 * Patch by Craig Sanders <cas@vicnet.net.au> for "last" -i option
316 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:16:23 +0200
318 sysvinit (2.76-4) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Change dowall.c to handle Unix98 ptys correctly
321 * Add comment in rcS about usage of setup.sh and unconfigured.sh
322 * Shutdown now removes nologin file just before calling telinit
323 * SEGV handler now tries to continue after sleep of 30 seconds.
324 On a 386-class processor it also prints out the value of EIP.
325 * Fix for racecondition in check_init_fifo() by Richard Gooch
327 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 8 May 1999 17:22:57 +0200
329 sysvinit (2.76-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
331 * Small bugfix to last.c courtesy of Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.ml.org>
333 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:44 +0100
335 sysvinit (2.76-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
337 * Fix bug in check_pipe() which crashes init on the Alpha.
339 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:09:13 +0100
341 sysvinit (2.75-4) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Change sulogin password buffer to 128 characters.
344 * Don't print control characters in dowall.c
345 * Try to open getenv ("CONSOLE"), /dev/console and /dev/tty0 in order.
346 For backwards compatibility when you try to boot a 2.0.x kernel
347 with a linux > 2.1.70 /dev/console device.
348 * Change src/Makefile for non-debian systems (mainly, RedHat)
349 * Try to create /dev/initctl if not present; check every time to see
350 if the dev/ino of /dev/initctl has changed and re-open it. This should
352 * Send SIGUSR1 to init at bootup to let it re-open /dev/initctl;
353 again in support of devfs.
354 * Moved pidof to /bin (it's only a link to killall5 anyway)
356 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:03:14 +0200
358 sysvinit (2.75-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
361 * Add check to see if /dev/initctl is really a FIFO
362 * In ifdown.c first down all shaper devices then the real devices
364 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200
366 sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
368 * Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
369 thanks to Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> and
370 David Parrish <dparrish@zeta.org.au>
372 #21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
373 #21765: sysvinit: Typo in `killall5.c'
374 #21775: sysvinit: sysvinit does not support MD5 hashed passwords
375 #21990: /usr/bin/last: unnecessary memset and off-by-one bug
376 #22084: sysvinit 2.74-4: SIGPWR missing on sparc
377 #21900: init, powerfail events, and shutdown.allow
378 #21702: init 0 does not work as expected...
379 #21728: sysvinit: Typo in `init.c'
380 #22363: sysvinit: discrepance btw. manpage and /sbin/init
382 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29 +0200
384 sysvinit (2.74-4) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
386 * Add -o option to last to process libc5 utmp files.
387 * Buffer overflow fixed in init.c (not very serious; only exploitable
388 by root). Thanks to Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
390 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:04:33 +0200
392 sysvinit (2.74-1) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Should compile with glibc 1.99 :)
395 * Change behaviour of reboot(1) and halt(1) so that the default when
396 the runlevel can't be determined is to call shutdown.
397 * Added re-exec patch from Al Viro (21 Feb 1998):
398 'U' flag added to telinit. It forces init to re-exec itself
399 (passing its state through exec, certainly).
400 May be useful for smoother (heh) upgrades.
402 did_boot made global and added to state - thanks, Miquel.
403 Yet another file descriptors leak - close state pipe if
406 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:42:46 +0100
408 sysvinit (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Change _NSIG to NSIG for 2.1.x kernel includes.
412 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:01:02 +0100
414 sysvinit (2.73-1) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Use siginterrupt, now that system calls are restarted by default.
417 Main symptom was that the sulogin timeout didn't work but there
418 might have been more hidden problems.
419 * Kill process immidiately if turned off in inittab
420 * Fixed sulogin check on tty arg.
421 * Use strerror() instead of sys_errlist
422 * wall now supports a '-n' option to suppress [most of] the banner.
423 Debian doesn't use sysvinit's wall, but apparently Redhat does.
424 * Add '-F' (forcefsck) option to shutdown
425 * Close and reopen /dev/initctl on SIGUSR1 (mainly for a /dev in ram)
427 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:32:39 +0100
429 sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
433 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:00 +0200
435 sysvinit (2.72) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Applied manual page patches by Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>. Thanks Bill!
438 * Applied patches to the sample Slackware scripts by
439 "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
440 * Fix halt and reboot runlevels 0 & 6 check.
441 * Only say "no more processes left in runlevel x" once
442 * Fix race condition with SIGCHLD in spawn()
443 (thanks to Alon Ziv <alonz@CS.Technion.AC.IL>)
444 * Compress all manpages (missed 2)
446 * Added poweroff patch by Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>
448 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:20:17 +0200
450 sysvinit (2.71-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
452 * Print 2.71 instead of 2.70 on startup :)
454 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 May 1997 12:45:25 +0200
456 sysvinit (2.71-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
458 * Added code for updwtmp() in utmp.c for glibc (2.0.3)
459 * Fixed all programs to use functions from utmp.c and getutent()
460 * Do not try to clean up utmp in init itself (Bug#9022)
461 * Removed sync() from main loop.
462 * Hopefully fixes bug #8657 (shutdown signal handling)
464 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:27 +0200
466 sysvinit (2.70-1) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Removed StUdLy CaPs from source code
470 * Moved files in source archive around
471 * Fixes for glibc (utmp handling, signal handling).
472 * Fixed '-d' option to last (now also works without '-a').
473 * Added extra checking in last.c to prevent showing dead entries
475 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:31:30 +0100
477 sysvinit (2.69-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
479 * Fixed bug that can throw X in a loop (or any other app that reads from
482 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:32:24 +0100
484 sysvinit (2.67-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
486 * Fixes problem with /dev/console being controlling terminal of some
488 * Puts copyright file in the right place
490 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:23:33 +0100
492 sysvinit (2.66-1) unstable; urgency=medium
494 * Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
496 * Also compiles and runs with GNU libc (and on the Alpha)
497 * Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
498 * Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
499 * Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
500 * Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait
501 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
502 * Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
503 /var/log and /etc itself.
505 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:46:54 +0100
508 - Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
510 - Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
511 - Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
512 - Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
513 - Ported to Linux/Alpha and GNU libc.
514 - Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait.
515 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
516 - Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
517 /var/log and /etc itself.
520 - Init checks CONSOLE environment variable on startup (overrides /dev/console)
521 - Init sets CONSOLE variable for all its children.
522 - Wtmp(): when zeroing out old utmp entries, keep ut_id field
523 - Wtmp(): try to re-use ut_id field if possible.
524 - SetTerm(): only read from /etc/ioctl.save if written once.
525 - Included start-stop-daemon, C version (source only).
526 - Fixed wait() for the emergency shell.
527 - killall5: ignore signal before doing kill(-1, pid).
530 - Fixed preinst script for Debian
531 - Fixed init.c to become init daemon if name is init.new
532 - Fixed pidof to not return PIDs of shell scripts
535 - Changed debian /etc/init.d/boot script to create a nologin file
536 at boot and to remove it just before going multiuser.
539 - Decided to release a 2.62 version with a BIG WARNING about upgrading
540 init in it. Will send a patch to Linus for the linux/Documentation/Changes
541 file so that 2.62 or later is mentioned as the version to upgrade to.
542 - Added docs for Slackware
545 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/network for the lo device.
546 - Added "-xdev" to the cd /tmp && find in debian/etc/init.d/boot
547 - Made remove time for files in /tmp configurable.
550 - Changed /etc/init.d/boot script again
551 - Fixed problem in init.c with trailing whitespace after entries in inittab
552 - Fixed killall5 problems
553 - Added manpage for lastb
554 - Added SHELL= environment variable to sulogin
555 - Fixed sulogin & shadow problems
556 - Added timeout option to sulogin
559 - Fixed sulogin (didn't work if root wasn't first entry in shadow file)
560 - Fixed mesg for systems with "tty" group (such as Debian)
561 - Fixed nsyslog() in killall5.c
564 - Fixed race condition in init.c, resulting in hanging shutdowns.
565 Courtesy of Max Neunhoeffer <Max.Neunhoeffer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.
566 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/boot for swapon and mdadd
567 - Added architecture to debian.control
568 - Added manpages for rc.boot and rc.local
569 - Updated inittab manpage for 4-character runlevel field
570 - Added debian replaces for bsdutils < version_without_mesg
571 - Fixed init.c so that it also works with kernels 1.3.81 and up
574 - Init logs less to syslog (suspected to hang in syslog() or openlog() )
575 - removed closelog() from init.c
576 - removed time check of runlevel record in halt.
577 - Added options to last to get hostname from ut_addr field
578 - Added last and mesg to installation targets
579 - rewrote /etc/init.d/boot a bit.
582 - Changed etc/init.d/rc to do a stty onlcr
583 - Added /var/log/initrunlvl symlink
586 - Added the latest debian files.
587 - Added support for 4-character id fields (if you have libc5).
588 - Fixed pidof (in killall5) parsing of /proc/.../stat
589 - Save restore GMT setting in /etc/init.d/boot
593 - Added "-b" flag to init, gives a shell before
594 anything else (in case the startup scripts are screwed)
595 - Moved fastboot to /fastboot
596 - Folded in Debian patches.
597 - Removed old scripts
598 - Added debian /etc/directory.
601 - Changed over to init_request (with initreq.h)
602 - Processes no longer killed when "process" field
603 changes, change takes effect after next respawn.
606 - Bugfix release for Debian and Slackware 3.0
609 - Fixed race condition init init.c wrt got_chld
610 - Fixed one-off for malloc in killall5.c
612 - Console code: no relink to /dev/systty on CTRL-ALT-DEL)
615 - Changed a few things here and there, didn't
616 really document it :)
619 - Added option to shutdown to run standalone.
622 - Added GNU copyrigh to all *.[ch] files.
623 - added /etc/initscript
624 - reboot and halt now call shutdown in runlevels 1-5
625 - Can run from read-only root (CDROM)
628 - Renamed pidof to killall5, updated all scripts to
629 use killall5 instead of kill -1 ....
630 - Rewrote scripts to use this, and some general changes.
631 - Added SysV command line compatibility to shutdown.
634 - Added `powerfailnow' keyword, for when UPS battery is low.
636 - Fixed utmp handling (wrt. CLEAN_UTMP)
638 * Make last compatible with GNU/BSD (long options?)
640 * remote SIGPWR broadcast? in powerd? (with priv. port)
644 - Ignores unknown command line arguments.
645 - Modelled more after the "real" sysVinit
646 - Lots of changes all over the place.
647 (like showing runlevel in "ps" listing, logging
648 runlevel into utmp file etc)
649 - now using "reliable" signals instead of V7 style.
650 - Updated all scripts. Examples are in two directories:
651 etc (normal) and etc-sysv (sysv style scripts).
652 - runlevel 0 = halt, 1 = single user, 6 = reboot.
653 - added support for serial console.
654 - updated Propaganda, manpages.
655 - added shutdown access control.
658 - Send out the official version into the world as
662 - Changed init to really catch SIGPWR 'cause we
663 hooked up an UPS to the Linux machine. The
664 keyword for catching the TreeFingerSalute is
665 now "ctrlaltdel" instead of "power{wait,fail}".
668 - Fixed last to reckognize BSD style wtmp logging.
669 - Changed init to write wtmp records that are
670 SysV compliant but are also reckognized by the
671 BSD last. Added a '+' option to the 'process'
672 field of inittab, for getties that want to do
673 their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping (kludge!).
674 - Now accepts a runlevel on the command line,
675 and reckognizes the 'auto' argument. (Sets the
676 environment variable AUTOBOOT to YES)
679 - Ripped out the 'leave' action. To difficult, and
681 - Going single user now kills _all_ processes.
682 - Added '-t secs' option to all commands.
683 - This version is stable enough to post.
686 - Made wait()'s asynchronous
687 - Changed whole thing to one big state machine
688 - Now using 'pseudo levels' # & * for SYSINIT & BOOT
689 - Added a new type of 'action', called leave. This
690 process will be executed when the system goes from a
691 runlevel specified in it's runlevel field to a
692 level that's not. Nice to bring down NFS and the like.
695 - Fixed a bug with 'boot' and 'once'.
696 - Check 'initdefault' for validity.
697 - Reckognizes "single" as command line argument.
698 - Retries execvp with 'sh -c exec ..' if command
699 is a shell script. (shouldn't execvp do this?)
700 - Added patches to use syslog if defined.
703 - Rewrote the code totally, so started with a new
705 - Dropped Minix support, this code now is Linux - specific.
706 - With TEST switch on, this init & telinit can
707 run standalone for test purposes.
710 - Got a 386, so installed Linux. Added 'soft' reboot
711 to be default under linux. Fixed some typos.
714 - Bugreport from Michael Haardt ; removed deadlock
715 and added 'waitpid' instead of 'wait' for SYSV.
718 - Read manual wrong: there is no 'action' field called
719 process, but all entries are of type process. Every
720 'process' get exec'ed by /bin/sh -c 'exec command'.
721 - Rapidly respawning processes are caught in the act.
722 - _SYSV support is really Linux support,
723 done by poe@daimi.aau.dk on 25-Mar-92.
726 - Initial version, very primitive for the Minix
727 operating system. Required some mods. to the