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
36 * Add the comment from Andrea Arcangeli about the correct
37 place of setting the default childhandler within spawn().
38 * Make sure that newline is printed out for last(1) even
39 if an utmp record entry is truncated.
40 * Check if utmp not only exists but also is writable and delay
41 writing out of the utmp runlevel record if utmp is not writable.
42 * Be able to find libcrypt also on 64 bit based architectures.
43 * Add option -w to the last command to display the full user and
44 domain names in the output. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
45 * Add a manual page for utmpdump as this tool is sometimes
46 very useful even if not intended for normal use.
47 * Use paths.h macros for wall
48 * Change path "/etc/powerstatus" to "/var/run/powerstatus"
49 * Detected also removable block devices at halt/reboot to be able
50 to flush data and send them the ATA standby command. This should
51 avoid data loss on USB sticks and other removable block devices.
52 * Flush block devices on halt/reboot if not done by the kernel.
53 * Set SHELL to /bin/sh in the environmant of shutdown.
54 * Retry to write out shutdown messages if interrupted.
55 * pidof/killall5 - make omit pid list a dynamic one.
56 * pidof - provide '-n' to skip stat(2) syscall on network based FS.
57 * init - avoid compiler warnings
58 * init - initialize console by using the macros from ttydefaults.h
59 * init - add the possiblity to ignore further interrupts from keyboard
60 * init - add the possiblity to set sane terminal line settings
61 * sulogin - add the possibility to reset the terminal io
62 * Fix some minor problems
63 * init - enable is_selinux_enabled() to detect selinuxfs
64 * Add fix for Debian bug #536574 -- Can be enabled by -DACCTON_OFF
65 * Add helper program fstab-decode to make it easier to handle
66 /etc/mtab content. Patch by Miloslav Trmac and Fedora.
67 * Add fix for Debian bug #335023 - Make sure TERM is set on FreeBSD.
68 * Add fix for Debian bug #374038 - Make it clear that shutdown -c can
69 only cancel a waiting shutdown, not an active one.
70 * Add note to pidof manual page about the use of readlink(2). Patch by
71 Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
72 * Add changes for Debian bug #68621 - Add PAM support for programs spawned
73 by init on the console like sulogin. Based on patch by Topi Miettinen.
74 * Test out PAM support, extend PAM support by providing environment
75 is specified by /etc/pam.d/init
76 * Move utmp/wtmp before the execvp() in spawn() to be sure to
77 use the correct pid even on a controlling tty
78 * Remaining problem is that the pid of the second fork() for
79 getting a controlling tty isn't that reported by spawn()
80 * Re-enable writting utmp/wtmp for boot scripts
81 * Provide a simply /etc/pam.d/init as without it will not work (sigh!)
82 * Extend sulogin to support additional encryption algorithms
83 * Re-enable maintenance message of sulogin
84 * Remove PAM session start part from init as sulogin do not use
85 and will not use a PAM conv() function. The current sulogin
86 is able to handle DES as well as MD5, SHA, and Blowfish encrypted
87 passwords due using getpwnam(3).
88 * Enable the sulogin fallback password check to handle MD5, SHA, and
89 Blowfish encrypted passwords in case of getpwnam(3) fails.
90 * sulogin picking the SELinux context was broken. Patch by Daniel Walsh
92 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
94 sysvinit (2.87dsf) world; urgency=low
96 * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
97 * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
98 * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
99 * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
100 * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
101 Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
102 * Adjust output from "last -x". In reboot lines, print endpoint
103 of uptime too. In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
104 the time between downs. Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
105 Patch by Thomas Hood.
106 * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last. Patch from Fedora.
107 * Document last options in usage information, previously only
108 mentioned in the manual page.
109 * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
110 of the short form provided by default. Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
112 * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
114 * Increase the compiler warning level when building.
115 * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Bill
116 Nottingham and Fedora.
117 * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
118 Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
119 * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
120 the new process. Patch from RedHat.
121 * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
122 re-exec. Patch from RedHat.
123 * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
124 boot. Patch from SuSe.
125 * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6. Patch from Thomas Hood.
126 * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink. Patch from
128 * Improve error message from init if fork() fail. Patch found in Suse.
129 * Add support for SE Linux capability handling. Patch from Manoj
130 Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
131 the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
132 * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
133 process root. Ignore -c when not running as root. Patch from
134 Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
135 * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
136 process name can be one character longer. Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
137 * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
138 the child successfully.
139 * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
140 fdatasync(). Patch from Thomas Hood.
141 * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
142 not exist. Patch from Thomas Hood.
143 * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA. Patch
145 * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
146 value is usable on re-exec. Patch from Thomas Hood.
147 * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
148 to reschedule. Patch from SuSe.
149 * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
150 * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
151 and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option. Patch from
153 * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
154 Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
155 * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly. Patches
156 from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
157 * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
158 string lengths. Patch from SuSe.
159 * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
160 * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake. Patch from SuSe.
161 * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
162 processes to kill. Patch from Debian.
163 * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
164 some pids during shutdown. Based on patch from Colin Watson and
166 * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages. Patch from Debian.
167 * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
168 changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
169 avoiding stat() when the value isn't used. Also, lock process
170 pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
171 Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
173 * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
174 and document this requirement in the manual page.
175 * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
176 Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
177 * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
178 shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.
180 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
182 sysvinit (2.86) cistron; urgency=low
184 * Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal
185 linebuffer to process \r, \t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
186 * Applied trivial OWL patches
187 * Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
188 (James Olin Oden <joden@malachi.lee.k12.nc.us>, redhat bug #97534)
189 * Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
190 * killall5 now skips kernel threads
191 * Inittab entries with both 'S' and other runlevels were broken.
192 Fix by Bryan Kadzban <bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
193 * Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
194 * You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in
195 init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only
196 variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
197 16 variables. There's also a length limit due to the size
198 of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
199 * Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and
200 INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
201 * Add "mountpoint" utility.
202 * Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
203 * Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t,
204 sulogin-message, user-console)
206 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
208 sysvinit (2.85) cistron; urgency=low
210 * Add IPv6 support in last(1)
211 * Sulogin: even if the root password is empty, ask for a password-
212 otherwise there is no way to set a timeout.
213 * Removed support for ioctl.save.
214 * Turned of support for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/run/initrunlvl
215 * Fixed warts in dowall.c ("Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>)
216 * Fix init.c::spawn(). The "f" variable was used both as file descriptor
217 and waitpid(2) return code. In certain circumstances, this leads to
218 TIOCSCTTY with wrong file descriptor (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
219 * Fix fd leak in sulogin (Dmitry V. Levin).
220 * More error checking in all wait() calling code (Dmitry V. Levin).
221 * Fix argv[] initialization in spawn() (Dmitry V. Levin).
222 * Change strncpy to strncat in most places (Dmitry V. Levin).
224 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:37:57 +0200
226 sysvinit (2.84) cistron; urgency=low
228 * Don't use /etc/initlvl interface for telinit; only use /dev/initctl,
229 and give a clear error when that fails.
230 * Add -i/--init command line flag to init - this tells init
231 'behave as system init even if you're not PID#1'. Useful for
232 testing in chroot/jail type environments.
234 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:10:08 +0100
236 sysvinit (2.83) cistron; urgency=low
238 * Fix bug in shutdown where it didn't check correctly for a
239 virtual console when checking /etc/shutdown.allow
240 * Fix race condition in waitpid() [Andrea Arcangeli]
241 * Call closelog() after openlog()/syslog() since recent libc's
242 keep the logging fd open and that is fd#0 aka stdin.
244 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:27:06 +0200
246 sysvinit (2.82) cistron; urgency=low
248 * Print out correct version number at startup.
249 * Fix spelling of initttab in init(8)
251 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:50:44 +0200
253 sysvinit (2.81) cistron; urgency=low
255 * Fix typo/bug in killall5/pidof, -o option failed to work since 2.79.
256 Reformatted source code to prevent this from happening again.
257 * shutdown.8: applied redhat manpage update
258 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sulogin-nologin.patch
259 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-notty.patch
260 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
262 sysvinit (2.80) cistron; urgency=low
264 * Grammar/spelling fixes in shutdown.c (Christian Steinrueck)
265 * Don't set controlling tty for non-(sysinit,boot,single) runlevels
267 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:26:56 +0200
269 sysvinit (2.79) cistron; urgency=low
271 * New upstream version
272 * several fixes to wall by Tim Robbins <fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org>
273 * Several extra boundary checks by Solar Designer
274 * Make /dev/console controlling tty
275 * Stricter checks on ownership of tty by mesg(1)
276 * Documented and restricted -n option to wall(1)
277 * Make it compile with glibc 2.2.2
278 * Document IO redirection in wall manpage (closes: #79491)
279 * Update README (closes: #85650)
280 * Fix init.8 manpage (closes: #75268)
281 * Fix typo in halt(8) manpage (closes: #67875)
282 * Check time argument of shutdown(8) for correctness (closes: #67825)
283 * Check for stale sessions in last(1) (Chris Wolf <cwolf@starclass.com>)
285 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:04:36 +0200
287 sysvinit (2.78-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
289 * Change "booting" to "reloading" message at reload
290 * Add "-z xxx" dummy command line argument (closes: #54717)
292 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:17:54 +0100
294 sysvinit (2.78-1) unstable; urgency=low
296 * 2.78 will be the new upstream version, I'm skipping 2.77
297 * Shutdown now calls sync before switching the runlevel to 0 or 6,
298 or before unmounting filesystems if -n was used (closes: #46461)
299 * Some cosmetic changes to init.c (closes: #32079)
301 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:40:23 +0100
303 sysvinit (2.77-2) unstable; urgency=low
307 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
309 sysvinit (2.77-1) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Write reboot record into utmp file as well to make rms happy
312 * Fork and dump core in / if SIGSEGV is received for debugging purposes
313 * Patch by Craig Sanders <cas@vicnet.net.au> for "last" -i option
315 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:16:23 +0200
317 sysvinit (2.76-4) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Change dowall.c to handle Unix98 ptys correctly
320 * Add comment in rcS about usage of setup.sh and unconfigured.sh
321 * Shutdown now removes nologin file just before calling telinit
322 * SEGV handler now tries to continue after sleep of 30 seconds.
323 On a 386-class processor it also prints out the value of EIP.
324 * Fix for racecondition in check_init_fifo() by Richard Gooch
326 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 8 May 1999 17:22:57 +0200
328 sysvinit (2.76-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
330 * Small bugfix to last.c courtesy of Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.ml.org>
332 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:44 +0100
334 sysvinit (2.76-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
336 * Fix bug in check_pipe() which crashes init on the Alpha.
338 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:09:13 +0100
340 sysvinit (2.75-4) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Change sulogin password buffer to 128 characters.
343 * Don't print control characters in dowall.c
344 * Try to open getenv ("CONSOLE"), /dev/console and /dev/tty0 in order.
345 For backwards compatibility when you try to boot a 2.0.x kernel
346 with a linux > 2.1.70 /dev/console device.
347 * Change src/Makefile for non-debian systems (mainly, RedHat)
348 * Try to create /dev/initctl if not present; check every time to see
349 if the dev/ino of /dev/initctl has changed and re-open it. This should
351 * Send SIGUSR1 to init at bootup to let it re-open /dev/initctl;
352 again in support of devfs.
353 * Moved pidof to /bin (it's only a link to killall5 anyway)
355 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:03:14 +0200
357 sysvinit (2.75-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
360 * Add check to see if /dev/initctl is really a FIFO
361 * In ifdown.c first down all shaper devices then the real devices
363 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200
365 sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
367 * Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
368 thanks to Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> and
369 David Parrish <dparrish@zeta.org.au>
371 #21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
372 #21765: sysvinit: Typo in `killall5.c'
373 #21775: sysvinit: sysvinit does not support MD5 hashed passwords
374 #21990: /usr/bin/last: unnecessary memset and off-by-one bug
375 #22084: sysvinit 2.74-4: SIGPWR missing on sparc
376 #21900: init, powerfail events, and shutdown.allow
377 #21702: init 0 does not work as expected...
378 #21728: sysvinit: Typo in `init.c'
379 #22363: sysvinit: discrepance btw. manpage and /sbin/init
381 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29 +0200
383 sysvinit (2.74-4) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
385 * Add -o option to last to process libc5 utmp files.
386 * Buffer overflow fixed in init.c (not very serious; only exploitable
387 by root). Thanks to Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
389 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:04:33 +0200
391 sysvinit (2.74-1) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Should compile with glibc 1.99 :)
394 * Change behaviour of reboot(1) and halt(1) so that the default when
395 the runlevel can't be determined is to call shutdown.
396 * Added re-exec patch from Al Viro (21 Feb 1998):
397 'U' flag added to telinit. It forces init to re-exec itself
398 (passing its state through exec, certainly).
399 May be useful for smoother (heh) upgrades.
401 did_boot made global and added to state - thanks, Miquel.
402 Yet another file descriptors leak - close state pipe if
405 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:42:46 +0100
407 sysvinit (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Change _NSIG to NSIG for 2.1.x kernel includes.
411 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:01:02 +0100
413 sysvinit (2.73-1) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Use siginterrupt, now that system calls are restarted by default.
416 Main symptom was that the sulogin timeout didn't work but there
417 might have been more hidden problems.
418 * Kill process immidiately if turned off in inittab
419 * Fixed sulogin check on tty arg.
420 * Use strerror() instead of sys_errlist
421 * wall now supports a '-n' option to suppress [most of] the banner.
422 Debian doesn't use sysvinit's wall, but apparently Redhat does.
423 * Add '-F' (forcefsck) option to shutdown
424 * Close and reopen /dev/initctl on SIGUSR1 (mainly for a /dev in ram)
426 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:32:39 +0100
428 sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
432 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:00 +0200
434 sysvinit (2.72) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Applied manual page patches by Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>. Thanks Bill!
437 * Applied patches to the sample Slackware scripts by
438 "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
439 * Fix halt and reboot runlevels 0 & 6 check.
440 * Only say "no more processes left in runlevel x" once
441 * Fix race condition with SIGCHLD in spawn()
442 (thanks to Alon Ziv <alonz@CS.Technion.AC.IL>)
443 * Compress all manpages (missed 2)
445 * Added poweroff patch by Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>
447 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:20:17 +0200
449 sysvinit (2.71-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
451 * Print 2.71 instead of 2.70 on startup :)
453 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 May 1997 12:45:25 +0200
455 sysvinit (2.71-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
457 * Added code for updwtmp() in utmp.c for glibc (2.0.3)
458 * Fixed all programs to use functions from utmp.c and getutent()
459 * Do not try to clean up utmp in init itself (Bug#9022)
460 * Removed sync() from main loop.
461 * Hopefully fixes bug #8657 (shutdown signal handling)
463 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:27 +0200
465 sysvinit (2.70-1) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Removed StUdLy CaPs from source code
469 * Moved files in source archive around
470 * Fixes for glibc (utmp handling, signal handling).
471 * Fixed '-d' option to last (now also works without '-a').
472 * Added extra checking in last.c to prevent showing dead entries
474 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:31:30 +0100
476 sysvinit (2.69-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
478 * Fixed bug that can throw X in a loop (or any other app that reads from
481 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:32:24 +0100
483 sysvinit (2.67-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
485 * Fixes problem with /dev/console being controlling terminal of some
487 * Puts copyright file in the right place
489 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:23:33 +0100
491 sysvinit (2.66-1) unstable; urgency=medium
493 * Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
495 * Also compiles and runs with GNU libc (and on the Alpha)
496 * Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
497 * Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
498 * Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
499 * Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait
500 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
501 * Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
502 /var/log and /etc itself.
504 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:46:54 +0100
507 - Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
509 - Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
510 - Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
511 - Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
512 - Ported to Linux/Alpha and GNU libc.
513 - Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait.
514 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
515 - Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
516 /var/log and /etc itself.
519 - Init checks CONSOLE environment variable on startup (overrides /dev/console)
520 - Init sets CONSOLE variable for all its children.
521 - Wtmp(): when zeroing out old utmp entries, keep ut_id field
522 - Wtmp(): try to re-use ut_id field if possible.
523 - SetTerm(): only read from /etc/ioctl.save if written once.
524 - Included start-stop-daemon, C version (source only).
525 - Fixed wait() for the emergency shell.
526 - killall5: ignore signal before doing kill(-1, pid).
529 - Fixed preinst script for Debian
530 - Fixed init.c to become init daemon if name is init.new
531 - Fixed pidof to not return PIDs of shell scripts
534 - Changed debian /etc/init.d/boot script to create a nologin file
535 at boot and to remove it just before going multiuser.
538 - Decided to release a 2.62 version with a BIG WARNING about upgrading
539 init in it. Will send a patch to Linus for the linux/Documentation/Changes
540 file so that 2.62 or later is mentioned as the version to upgrade to.
541 - Added docs for Slackware
544 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/network for the lo device.
545 - Added "-xdev" to the cd /tmp && find in debian/etc/init.d/boot
546 - Made remove time for files in /tmp configurable.
549 - Changed /etc/init.d/boot script again
550 - Fixed problem in init.c with trailing whitespace after entries in inittab
551 - Fixed killall5 problems
552 - Added manpage for lastb
553 - Added SHELL= environment variable to sulogin
554 - Fixed sulogin & shadow problems
555 - Added timeout option to sulogin
558 - Fixed sulogin (didn't work if root wasn't first entry in shadow file)
559 - Fixed mesg for systems with "tty" group (such as Debian)
560 - Fixed nsyslog() in killall5.c
563 - Fixed race condition in init.c, resulting in hanging shutdowns.
564 Courtesy of Max Neunhoeffer <Max.Neunhoeffer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.
565 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/boot for swapon and mdadd
566 - Added architecture to debian.control
567 - Added manpages for rc.boot and rc.local
568 - Updated inittab manpage for 4-character runlevel field
569 - Added debian replaces for bsdutils < version_without_mesg
570 - Fixed init.c so that it also works with kernels 1.3.81 and up
573 - Init logs less to syslog (suspected to hang in syslog() or openlog() )
574 - removed closelog() from init.c
575 - removed time check of runlevel record in halt.
576 - Added options to last to get hostname from ut_addr field
577 - Added last and mesg to installation targets
578 - rewrote /etc/init.d/boot a bit.
581 - Changed etc/init.d/rc to do a stty onlcr
582 - Added /var/log/initrunlvl symlink
585 - Added the latest debian files.
586 - Added support for 4-character id fields (if you have libc5).
587 - Fixed pidof (in killall5) parsing of /proc/.../stat
588 - Save restore GMT setting in /etc/init.d/boot
592 - Added "-b" flag to init, gives a shell before
593 anything else (in case the startup scripts are screwed)
594 - Moved fastboot to /fastboot
595 - Folded in Debian patches.
596 - Removed old scripts
597 - Added debian /etc/directory.
600 - Changed over to init_request (with initreq.h)
601 - Processes no longer killed when "process" field
602 changes, change takes effect after next respawn.
605 - Bugfix release for Debian and Slackware 3.0
608 - Fixed race condition init init.c wrt got_chld
609 - Fixed one-off for malloc in killall5.c
611 - Console code: no relink to /dev/systty on CTRL-ALT-DEL)
614 - Changed a few things here and there, didn't
615 really document it :)
618 - Added option to shutdown to run standalone.
621 - Added GNU copyrigh to all *.[ch] files.
622 - added /etc/initscript
623 - reboot and halt now call shutdown in runlevels 1-5
624 - Can run from read-only root (CDROM)
627 - Renamed pidof to killall5, updated all scripts to
628 use killall5 instead of kill -1 ....
629 - Rewrote scripts to use this, and some general changes.
630 - Added SysV command line compatibility to shutdown.
633 - Added `powerfailnow' keyword, for when UPS battery is low.
635 - Fixed utmp handling (wrt. CLEAN_UTMP)
637 * Make last compatible with GNU/BSD (long options?)
639 * remote SIGPWR broadcast? in powerd? (with priv. port)
643 - Ignores unknown command line arguments.
644 - Modelled more after the "real" sysVinit
645 - Lots of changes all over the place.
646 (like showing runlevel in "ps" listing, logging
647 runlevel into utmp file etc)
648 - now using "reliable" signals instead of V7 style.
649 - Updated all scripts. Examples are in two directories:
650 etc (normal) and etc-sysv (sysv style scripts).
651 - runlevel 0 = halt, 1 = single user, 6 = reboot.
652 - added support for serial console.
653 - updated Propaganda, manpages.
654 - added shutdown access control.
657 - Send out the official version into the world as
661 - Changed init to really catch SIGPWR 'cause we
662 hooked up an UPS to the Linux machine. The
663 keyword for catching the TreeFingerSalute is
664 now "ctrlaltdel" instead of "power{wait,fail}".
667 - Fixed last to reckognize BSD style wtmp logging.
668 - Changed init to write wtmp records that are
669 SysV compliant but are also reckognized by the
670 BSD last. Added a '+' option to the 'process'
671 field of inittab, for getties that want to do
672 their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping (kludge!).
673 - Now accepts a runlevel on the command line,
674 and reckognizes the 'auto' argument. (Sets the
675 environment variable AUTOBOOT to YES)
678 - Ripped out the 'leave' action. To difficult, and
680 - Going single user now kills _all_ processes.
681 - Added '-t secs' option to all commands.
682 - This version is stable enough to post.
685 - Made wait()'s asynchronous
686 - Changed whole thing to one big state machine
687 - Now using 'pseudo levels' # & * for SYSINIT & BOOT
688 - Added a new type of 'action', called leave. This
689 process will be executed when the system goes from a
690 runlevel specified in it's runlevel field to a
691 level that's not. Nice to bring down NFS and the like.
694 - Fixed a bug with 'boot' and 'once'.
695 - Check 'initdefault' for validity.
696 - Reckognizes "single" as command line argument.
697 - Retries execvp with 'sh -c exec ..' if command
698 is a shell script. (shouldn't execvp do this?)
699 - Added patches to use syslog if defined.
702 - Rewrote the code totally, so started with a new
704 - Dropped Minix support, this code now is Linux - specific.
705 - With TEST switch on, this init & telinit can
706 run standalone for test purposes.
709 - Got a 386, so installed Linux. Added 'soft' reboot
710 to be default under linux. Fixed some typos.
713 - Bugreport from Michael Haardt ; removed deadlock
714 and added 'waitpid' instead of 'wait' for SYSV.
717 - Read manual wrong: there is no 'action' field called
718 process, but all entries are of type process. Every
719 'process' get exec'ed by /bin/sh -c 'exec command'.
720 - Rapidly respawning processes are caught in the act.
721 - _SYSV support is really Linux support,
722 done by poe@daimi.aau.dk on 25-Mar-92.
725 - Initial version, very primitive for the Minix
726 operating system. Required some mods. to the