1 sysvinit (2.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Do not forget room for last NULL of new environment (was
6 * Handle deleted binaries in pidof (was local bug #34992)
7 * Allow init to delete extra environment variables (was local bug
9 * Avoid that init double environment variables for its childs
10 (was local bug #35855)
11 * Remove man-db tag for encoding for canonical man
12 * Sulogin: try to detect the real device(s) used for the system console
13 /dev/console if but only if /dev/console is used. On Linux this can
14 be more than one device, e.g. a serial line as well as a virtual
15 console as well as a simple printer.
16 * Fix counting message lines in wall. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
17 * Fix bad printf conversion specifier in wall. Patch from Sébastien Luttringer.
18 * Add patches from Openwall project. Thanks goes to Solar Designer.
19 * Add code to detect the system consoles with the help of the
20 new /proc/consoles files of linux kernel 2.6.38+
21 * Try to make utmpdump IPv6 valid, change based on suggestion from
22 Navdeep Bhatia (see local bug #32429)
23 * Fix signal and alarm handling based on the patch from Florent Viard.
24 (was local bug #32304)
25 * Add fix for Redhat bug #573346: last incorrectly displays IPv6
26 addresses (was local bug #29497)
27 * Correct fix for Debian bug #547073: use IUTF8 flag if defined
28 and if already set to make sure the utf-8 flag is not cleared
29 from the tty. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
30 * Include limits.h in killall.c to enforce definition of PATH_MAX
31 * Fix sysvinit bug #29758 Linker invocation should not contain
32 headers. Change based on patch from Elias Pipping.
33 * Add fix for Debian bug #580272: use return value 1 of
34 is_selinux_enabled() to determine if SELinux is enabled,
35 otherwise initialize SELinux and load the policy. Patch from
37 * Make quotes visible in example of the manual page of fstab-decode
38 * Sulogin: enforce reconnection of stdin/stdout/stderr if a device
40 * Sulogin: if zero is read at reading the passwd guess it's done.
41 * Sulogin: respect byte order that is do not mix chars and ints
42 * Shutdown: use PATH_DEFAULT as suggested by Paul Arthur in local bug #36101
43 * Killall5/pidof: handle strange names of executables (local bug #36252)
44 * Sulogin: be aware the crypt(3) may fail (local bug #36313)
46 [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
47 * Next release will be 2.89dsf.
48 * Add #ifdef in bootlogd.c to avoid gcc warnings about unused
49 variable on non-linux platforms.
50 * Only set the VSWTC field for termios in init if it is available,
51 to get the source building on FreeBSD.
52 * Add some code to be able to detect programs even as user with
54 * Improve message printed when signaling processes to stop.
55 Patch from Matias A. Fonzo at the dragora project.
56 * Rename internal functions warn() and shutdown() in the shutdown
57 binary to avoid surprising dynamic library name resolution
58 conflict with NSS modules. Patch from Richard Tollerton.
59 * Try harder to find libcrypt.*, even if there is no static library
60 available. Also look in /usr/lib/*/ for the library, to handle
61 Debian multiarch systems. Based on patch from Andrew Gregory.
62 * Adjust included headers to be compatible with the musl C
63 library. Patch from Matias A. Fonzo and Dragora.
64 * Move dovoid() macro from #ifdef__GLIBC__ to #ifdef __linux__,
65 to match the condutions of the place where it is used. Thanks
66 to Matias A. Fonzo for noticing.
67 * Define _XOPEN_SOURCE when building to get crypt() from <unistd.h>
68 instead of using <crypt.h> in sulogin.c, to get the source building
69 with the musl C library.
70 * Use sysconf(_SC_SYMLOOP_MAX) instead of MAXSYMLINKS. If sysconf
71 returns an error, fall back to MAXSYMLINKS on platforms that
72 define it. Fixes build on Hurd. Patch from Justus Winter and
74 * Adjust makefile to make it easier to link all binaries statically.
75 Patch from Matias A. Fonzo and Dragora.
76 * Rewrite findtty() in bootlogd.c to not chance working directory, to
77 reduce the amount of failure that can happin in that function.
78 * Adapt bootlogd TIOCCONS call to kfreebsd. Patch from Mats Erik
80 * Document length limit for the process field in the inittab. Patch
81 from Johannes Truschnigg and Debian.
82 * Fix typo in fstab-decode(8) font escape. Patch from Bjarni Ingi
84 * Port ifdown.c to FreeBSD. Patch from Guillem Jover and Debian.
85 * Drop dsf part from version number. It no longer make sense to keep.
87 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010
89 sysvinit (2.88dsf) world; urgency=low
91 [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
92 * Mention new home on Savannah in README.
93 * Revert change from Fedora/RedHat where the now obsolete command
94 INIT_CMD_CHANGECONS was introduced. Based on feedback and patch
96 * Adjust makefile to make sure the install directories are created
97 before files are copied into them.
98 * Simplify build rules, based on patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
99 * Fix minor bug in optimizing of argument parsing. Based on
100 report from jakemus on freshmeat.
101 * Add casts to get rid of compiler warning about signed/unsigned issues.
102 * Change tty handling in init to make sure the UTF-8 flag is not cleared
103 on boot. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
104 * Add Makefile in toplevel directory.
105 * Print usage information when shutdown is used by non-root user.
106 Patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
107 * Sync shutdown manual page and usage information. Patch from Mike
108 Frysinger and Gentoo.
109 * Fix race condition in utmp writing. Patch from Gil Kloepfer via
110 Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
111 * Rewrite findtty() in bootlogd to recursively search /dev/ for the
112 correct device, to handle terminal devices for example in /dev/pty/.
114 * Make sure bootlogd findpty() returns an error value when it fails to
115 find a usable pty. Patch from Rob Leslie via Debian.
116 * Make sure bootlogd fflush() every line, even if asked not to flush
117 to disk using fdatasync(). Patch from Scott Gifford via Debian.
118 * Add compatibility code to handle old path "/etc/powerstatus" for a
120 * Incude definition for MNT_DETACH which is missing in older GNU libc
122 * Do not strip binaries before installing them, to make it easier to
123 get binaries with debug information installed.
126 * Add the comment from Andrea Arcangeli about the correct
127 place of setting the default childhandler within spawn().
128 * Make sure that newline is printed out for last(1) even
129 if an utmp record entry is truncated.
130 * Check if utmp not only exists but also is writable and delay
131 writing out of the utmp runlevel record if utmp is not writable.
132 * Be able to find libcrypt also on 64 bit based architectures.
133 * Add option -w to the last command to display the full user and
134 domain names in the output. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
135 * Add a manual page for utmpdump as this tool is sometimes
136 very useful even if not intended for normal use.
137 * Use paths.h macros for wall
138 * Change path "/etc/powerstatus" to "/var/run/powerstatus"
139 * Detected also removable block devices at halt/reboot to be able
140 to flush data and send them the ATA standby command. This should
141 avoid data loss on USB sticks and other removable block devices.
142 * Flush block devices on halt/reboot if not done by the kernel.
143 * Set SHELL to /bin/sh in the environmant of shutdown.
144 * Retry to write out shutdown messages if interrupted.
145 * pidof/killall5 - make omit pid list a dynamic one.
146 * pidof - provide '-n' to skip stat(2) syscall on network based FS.
147 * init - avoid compiler warnings
148 * init - initialize console by using the macros from ttydefaults.h
149 * init - add the possiblity to ignore further interrupts from keyboard
150 * init - add the possiblity to set sane terminal line settings
151 * sulogin - add the possibility to reset the terminal io
152 * Fix some minor problems
153 * init - enable is_selinux_enabled() to detect selinuxfs
154 * Add fix for Debian bug #536574 -- Can be enabled by -DACCTON_OFF
155 * Add helper program fstab-decode to make it easier to handle
156 /etc/mtab content. Patch by Miloslav Trmac and Fedora.
157 * Add fix for Debian bug #335023 - Make sure TERM is set on FreeBSD.
158 * Add fix for Debian bug #374038 - Make it clear that shutdown -c can
159 only cancel a waiting shutdown, not an active one.
160 * Add note to pidof manual page about the use of readlink(2). Patch by
161 Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
162 * Add PAM patch contrib/notify-pam-dead.patch based on Debian bug
163 #68621, which will add PAM support for programs spawned by init on
164 the console like sulogin. Based on patch by Topi Miettinen. This
165 patch is not applied by default yet while we review its
166 usefullness. It is only helpful for session handling, as sulogin
167 do not use and will not use a PAM conv() function. The current
168 sulogin is able to handle DES as well as MD5, SHA, and Blowfish
169 encrypted passwords due using getpwnam(3).
170 * Move utmp/wtmp before the execvp() in spawn() to be sure to
171 use the correct pid even on a controlling tty
172 * Remaining problem is that the pid of the second fork() for
173 getting a controlling tty isn't that reported by spawn()
174 * Re-enable writting utmp/wtmp for boot scripts
175 * Extend sulogin to support additional encryption algorithms
176 * Re-enable maintenance message of sulogin
177 * Enable the sulogin fallback password check to handle MD5, SHA, and
178 Blowfish encrypted passwords in case of getpwnam(3) fails.
179 * sulogin picking the SELinux context was broken. Patch by Daniel Walsh
181 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010
183 sysvinit (2.87dsf) world; urgency=low
185 * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
186 * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
187 * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
188 * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
189 * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
190 Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
191 * Adjust output from "last -x". In reboot lines, print endpoint
192 of uptime too. In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
193 the time between downs. Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
194 Patch by Thomas Hood.
195 * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last. Patch from Fedora.
196 * Document last options in usage information, previously only
197 mentioned in the manual page.
198 * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
199 of the short form provided by default. Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
201 * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
203 * Increase the compiler warning level when building.
204 * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Bill
205 Nottingham and Fedora.
206 * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
207 Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
208 * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
209 the new process. Patch from RedHat.
210 * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
211 re-exec. Patch from RedHat.
212 * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
213 boot. Patch from SuSe.
214 * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6. Patch from Thomas Hood.
215 * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink. Patch from
217 * Improve error message from init if fork() fail. Patch found in Suse.
218 * Add support for SE Linux capability handling. Patch from Manoj
219 Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
220 the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
221 * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
222 process root. Ignore -c when not running as root. Patch from
223 Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
224 * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
225 process name can be one character longer. Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
226 * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
227 the child successfully.
228 * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
229 fdatasync(). Patch from Thomas Hood.
230 * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
231 not exist. Patch from Thomas Hood.
232 * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA. Patch
234 * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
235 value is usable on re-exec. Patch from Thomas Hood.
236 * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
237 to reschedule. Patch from SuSe.
238 * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
239 * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
240 and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option. Patch from
242 * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
243 Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
244 * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly. Patches
245 from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
246 * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
247 string lengths. Patch from SuSe.
248 * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
249 * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake. Patch from SuSe.
250 * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
251 processes to kill. Patch from Debian.
252 * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
253 some pids during shutdown. Based on patch from Colin Watson and
255 * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages. Patch from Debian.
256 * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
257 changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
258 avoiding stat() when the value isn't used. Also, lock process
259 pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
260 Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
262 * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
263 and document this requirement in the manual page.
264 * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
265 Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
266 * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
267 shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.
269 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
271 sysvinit (2.86) cistron; urgency=low
273 * Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal
274 linebuffer to process \r, \t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
275 * Applied trivial OWL patches
276 * Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
277 (James Olin Oden <joden@malachi.lee.k12.nc.us>, redhat bug #97534)
278 * Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
279 * killall5 now skips kernel threads
280 * Inittab entries with both 'S' and other runlevels were broken.
281 Fix by Bryan Kadzban <bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
282 * Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
283 * You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in
284 init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only
285 variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
286 16 variables. There's also a length limit due to the size
287 of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
288 * Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and
289 INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
290 * Add "mountpoint" utility.
291 * Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
292 * Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t,
293 sulogin-message, user-console)
295 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
297 sysvinit (2.85) cistron; urgency=low
299 * Add IPv6 support in last(1)
300 * Sulogin: even if the root password is empty, ask for a password-
301 otherwise there is no way to set a timeout.
302 * Removed support for ioctl.save.
303 * Turned of support for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/run/initrunlvl
304 * Fixed warts in dowall.c ("Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>)
305 * Fix init.c::spawn(). The "f" variable was used both as file descriptor
306 and waitpid(2) return code. In certain circumstances, this leads to
307 TIOCSCTTY with wrong file descriptor (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
308 * Fix fd leak in sulogin (Dmitry V. Levin).
309 * More error checking in all wait() calling code (Dmitry V. Levin).
310 * Fix argv[] initialization in spawn() (Dmitry V. Levin).
311 * Change strncpy to strncat in most places (Dmitry V. Levin).
313 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:37:57 +0200
315 sysvinit (2.84) cistron; urgency=low
317 * Don't use /etc/initlvl interface for telinit; only use /dev/initctl,
318 and give a clear error when that fails.
319 * Add -i/--init command line flag to init - this tells init
320 'behave as system init even if you're not PID#1'. Useful for
321 testing in chroot/jail type environments.
323 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:10:08 +0100
325 sysvinit (2.83) cistron; urgency=low
327 * Fix bug in shutdown where it didn't check correctly for a
328 virtual console when checking /etc/shutdown.allow
329 * Fix race condition in waitpid() [Andrea Arcangeli]
330 * Call closelog() after openlog()/syslog() since recent libc's
331 keep the logging fd open and that is fd#0 aka stdin.
333 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:27:06 +0200
335 sysvinit (2.82) cistron; urgency=low
337 * Print out correct version number at startup.
338 * Fix spelling of initttab in init(8)
340 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:50:44 +0200
342 sysvinit (2.81) cistron; urgency=low
344 * Fix typo/bug in killall5/pidof, -o option failed to work since 2.79.
345 Reformatted source code to prevent this from happening again.
346 * shutdown.8: applied redhat manpage update
347 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sulogin-nologin.patch
348 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-notty.patch
349 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
351 sysvinit (2.80) cistron; urgency=low
353 * Grammar/spelling fixes in shutdown.c (Christian Steinrueck)
354 * Don't set controlling tty for non-(sysinit,boot,single) runlevels
356 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:26:56 +0200
358 sysvinit (2.79) cistron; urgency=low
360 * New upstream version
361 * several fixes to wall by Tim Robbins <fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org>
362 * Several extra boundary checks by Solar Designer
363 * Make /dev/console controlling tty
364 * Stricter checks on ownership of tty by mesg(1)
365 * Documented and restricted -n option to wall(1)
366 * Make it compile with glibc 2.2.2
367 * Document IO redirection in wall manpage (closes: #79491)
368 * Update README (closes: #85650)
369 * Fix init.8 manpage (closes: #75268)
370 * Fix typo in halt(8) manpage (closes: #67875)
371 * Check time argument of shutdown(8) for correctness (closes: #67825)
372 * Check for stale sessions in last(1) (Chris Wolf <cwolf@starclass.com>)
374 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:04:36 +0200
376 sysvinit (2.78-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
378 * Change "booting" to "reloading" message at reload
379 * Add "-z xxx" dummy command line argument (closes: #54717)
381 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:17:54 +0100
383 sysvinit (2.78-1) unstable; urgency=low
385 * 2.78 will be the new upstream version, I'm skipping 2.77
386 * Shutdown now calls sync before switching the runlevel to 0 or 6,
387 or before unmounting filesystems if -n was used (closes: #46461)
388 * Some cosmetic changes to init.c (closes: #32079)
390 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:40:23 +0100
392 sysvinit (2.77-2) unstable; urgency=low
396 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
398 sysvinit (2.77-1) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Write reboot record into utmp file as well to make rms happy
401 * Fork and dump core in / if SIGSEGV is received for debugging purposes
402 * Patch by Craig Sanders <cas@vicnet.net.au> for "last" -i option
404 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:16:23 +0200
406 sysvinit (2.76-4) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Change dowall.c to handle Unix98 ptys correctly
409 * Add comment in rcS about usage of setup.sh and unconfigured.sh
410 * Shutdown now removes nologin file just before calling telinit
411 * SEGV handler now tries to continue after sleep of 30 seconds.
412 On a 386-class processor it also prints out the value of EIP.
413 * Fix for racecondition in check_init_fifo() by Richard Gooch
415 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 8 May 1999 17:22:57 +0200
417 sysvinit (2.76-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
419 * Small bugfix to last.c courtesy of Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.ml.org>
421 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:44 +0100
423 sysvinit (2.76-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
425 * Fix bug in check_pipe() which crashes init on the Alpha.
427 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:09:13 +0100
429 sysvinit (2.75-4) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Change sulogin password buffer to 128 characters.
432 * Don't print control characters in dowall.c
433 * Try to open getenv ("CONSOLE"), /dev/console and /dev/tty0 in order.
434 For backwards compatibility when you try to boot a 2.0.x kernel
435 with a linux > 2.1.70 /dev/console device.
436 * Change src/Makefile for non-debian systems (mainly, RedHat)
437 * Try to create /dev/initctl if not present; check every time to see
438 if the dev/ino of /dev/initctl has changed and re-open it. This should
440 * Send SIGUSR1 to init at bootup to let it re-open /dev/initctl;
441 again in support of devfs.
442 * Moved pidof to /bin (it's only a link to killall5 anyway)
444 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:03:14 +0200
446 sysvinit (2.75-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
449 * Add check to see if /dev/initctl is really a FIFO
450 * In ifdown.c first down all shaper devices then the real devices
452 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200
454 sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
456 * Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
457 thanks to Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> and
458 David Parrish <dparrish@zeta.org.au>
460 #21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
461 #21765: sysvinit: Typo in `killall5.c'
462 #21775: sysvinit: sysvinit does not support MD5 hashed passwords
463 #21990: /usr/bin/last: unnecessary memset and off-by-one bug
464 #22084: sysvinit 2.74-4: SIGPWR missing on sparc
465 #21900: init, powerfail events, and shutdown.allow
466 #21702: init 0 does not work as expected...
467 #21728: sysvinit: Typo in `init.c'
468 #22363: sysvinit: discrepance btw. manpage and /sbin/init
470 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29 +0200
472 sysvinit (2.74-4) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
474 * Add -o option to last to process libc5 utmp files.
475 * Buffer overflow fixed in init.c (not very serious; only exploitable
476 by root). Thanks to Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
478 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:04:33 +0200
480 sysvinit (2.74-1) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Should compile with glibc 1.99 :)
483 * Change behaviour of reboot(1) and halt(1) so that the default when
484 the runlevel can't be determined is to call shutdown.
485 * Added re-exec patch from Al Viro (21 Feb 1998):
486 'U' flag added to telinit. It forces init to re-exec itself
487 (passing its state through exec, certainly).
488 May be useful for smoother (heh) upgrades.
490 did_boot made global and added to state - thanks, Miquel.
491 Yet another file descriptors leak - close state pipe if
494 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:42:46 +0100
496 sysvinit (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Change _NSIG to NSIG for 2.1.x kernel includes.
500 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:01:02 +0100
502 sysvinit (2.73-1) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Use siginterrupt, now that system calls are restarted by default.
505 Main symptom was that the sulogin timeout didn't work but there
506 might have been more hidden problems.
507 * Kill process immidiately if turned off in inittab
508 * Fixed sulogin check on tty arg.
509 * Use strerror() instead of sys_errlist
510 * wall now supports a '-n' option to suppress [most of] the banner.
511 Debian doesn't use sysvinit's wall, but apparently Redhat does.
512 * Add '-F' (forcefsck) option to shutdown
513 * Close and reopen /dev/initctl on SIGUSR1 (mainly for a /dev in ram)
515 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:32:39 +0100
517 sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
521 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:00 +0200
523 sysvinit (2.72) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Applied manual page patches by Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>. Thanks Bill!
526 * Applied patches to the sample Slackware scripts by
527 "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
528 * Fix halt and reboot runlevels 0 & 6 check.
529 * Only say "no more processes left in runlevel x" once
530 * Fix race condition with SIGCHLD in spawn()
531 (thanks to Alon Ziv <alonz@CS.Technion.AC.IL>)
532 * Compress all manpages (missed 2)
534 * Added poweroff patch by Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>
536 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:20:17 +0200
538 sysvinit (2.71-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
540 * Print 2.71 instead of 2.70 on startup :)
542 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 May 1997 12:45:25 +0200
544 sysvinit (2.71-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
546 * Added code for updwtmp() in utmp.c for glibc (2.0.3)
547 * Fixed all programs to use functions from utmp.c and getutent()
548 * Do not try to clean up utmp in init itself (Bug#9022)
549 * Removed sync() from main loop.
550 * Hopefully fixes bug #8657 (shutdown signal handling)
552 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:27 +0200
554 sysvinit (2.70-1) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Removed StUdLy CaPs from source code
558 * Moved files in source archive around
559 * Fixes for glibc (utmp handling, signal handling).
560 * Fixed '-d' option to last (now also works without '-a').
561 * Added extra checking in last.c to prevent showing dead entries
563 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:31:30 +0100
565 sysvinit (2.69-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
567 * Fixed bug that can throw X in a loop (or any other app that reads from
570 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:32:24 +0100
572 sysvinit (2.67-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
574 * Fixes problem with /dev/console being controlling terminal of some
576 * Puts copyright file in the right place
578 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:23:33 +0100
580 sysvinit (2.66-1) unstable; urgency=medium
582 * Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
584 * Also compiles and runs with GNU libc (and on the Alpha)
585 * Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
586 * Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
587 * Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
588 * Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait
589 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
590 * Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
591 /var/log and /etc itself.
593 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:46:54 +0100
596 - Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
598 - Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
599 - Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
600 - Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
601 - Ported to Linux/Alpha and GNU libc.
602 - Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait.
603 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
604 - Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
605 /var/log and /etc itself.
608 - Init checks CONSOLE environment variable on startup (overrides /dev/console)
609 - Init sets CONSOLE variable for all its children.
610 - Wtmp(): when zeroing out old utmp entries, keep ut_id field
611 - Wtmp(): try to re-use ut_id field if possible.
612 - SetTerm(): only read from /etc/ioctl.save if written once.
613 - Included start-stop-daemon, C version (source only).
614 - Fixed wait() for the emergency shell.
615 - killall5: ignore signal before doing kill(-1, pid).
618 - Fixed preinst script for Debian
619 - Fixed init.c to become init daemon if name is init.new
620 - Fixed pidof to not return PIDs of shell scripts
623 - Changed debian /etc/init.d/boot script to create a nologin file
624 at boot and to remove it just before going multiuser.
627 - Decided to release a 2.62 version with a BIG WARNING about upgrading
628 init in it. Will send a patch to Linus for the linux/Documentation/Changes
629 file so that 2.62 or later is mentioned as the version to upgrade to.
630 - Added docs for Slackware
633 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/network for the lo device.
634 - Added "-xdev" to the cd /tmp && find in debian/etc/init.d/boot
635 - Made remove time for files in /tmp configurable.
638 - Changed /etc/init.d/boot script again
639 - Fixed problem in init.c with trailing whitespace after entries in inittab
640 - Fixed killall5 problems
641 - Added manpage for lastb
642 - Added SHELL= environment variable to sulogin
643 - Fixed sulogin & shadow problems
644 - Added timeout option to sulogin
647 - Fixed sulogin (didn't work if root wasn't first entry in shadow file)
648 - Fixed mesg for systems with "tty" group (such as Debian)
649 - Fixed nsyslog() in killall5.c
652 - Fixed race condition in init.c, resulting in hanging shutdowns.
653 Courtesy of Max Neunhoeffer <Max.Neunhoeffer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.
654 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/boot for swapon and mdadd
655 - Added architecture to debian.control
656 - Added manpages for rc.boot and rc.local
657 - Updated inittab manpage for 4-character runlevel field
658 - Added debian replaces for bsdutils < version_without_mesg
659 - Fixed init.c so that it also works with kernels 1.3.81 and up
662 - Init logs less to syslog (suspected to hang in syslog() or openlog() )
663 - removed closelog() from init.c
664 - removed time check of runlevel record in halt.
665 - Added options to last to get hostname from ut_addr field
666 - Added last and mesg to installation targets
667 - rewrote /etc/init.d/boot a bit.
670 - Changed etc/init.d/rc to do a stty onlcr
671 - Added /var/log/initrunlvl symlink
674 - Added the latest debian files.
675 - Added support for 4-character id fields (if you have libc5).
676 - Fixed pidof (in killall5) parsing of /proc/.../stat
677 - Save restore GMT setting in /etc/init.d/boot
681 - Added "-b" flag to init, gives a shell before
682 anything else (in case the startup scripts are screwed)
683 - Moved fastboot to /fastboot
684 - Folded in Debian patches.
685 - Removed old scripts
686 - Added debian /etc/directory.
689 - Changed over to init_request (with initreq.h)
690 - Processes no longer killed when "process" field
691 changes, change takes effect after next respawn.
694 - Bugfix release for Debian and Slackware 3.0
697 - Fixed race condition init init.c wrt got_chld
698 - Fixed one-off for malloc in killall5.c
700 - Console code: no relink to /dev/systty on CTRL-ALT-DEL)
703 - Changed a few things here and there, didn't
704 really document it :)
707 - Added option to shutdown to run standalone.
710 - Added GNU copyrigh to all *.[ch] files.
711 - added /etc/initscript
712 - reboot and halt now call shutdown in runlevels 1-5
713 - Can run from read-only root (CDROM)
716 - Renamed pidof to killall5, updated all scripts to
717 use killall5 instead of kill -1 ....
718 - Rewrote scripts to use this, and some general changes.
719 - Added SysV command line compatibility to shutdown.
722 - Added `powerfailnow' keyword, for when UPS battery is low.
724 - Fixed utmp handling (wrt. CLEAN_UTMP)
726 * Make last compatible with GNU/BSD (long options?)
728 * remote SIGPWR broadcast? in powerd? (with priv. port)
732 - Ignores unknown command line arguments.
733 - Modelled more after the "real" sysVinit
734 - Lots of changes all over the place.
735 (like showing runlevel in "ps" listing, logging
736 runlevel into utmp file etc)
737 - now using "reliable" signals instead of V7 style.
738 - Updated all scripts. Examples are in two directories:
739 etc (normal) and etc-sysv (sysv style scripts).
740 - runlevel 0 = halt, 1 = single user, 6 = reboot.
741 - added support for serial console.
742 - updated Propaganda, manpages.
743 - added shutdown access control.
746 - Send out the official version into the world as
750 - Changed init to really catch SIGPWR 'cause we
751 hooked up an UPS to the Linux machine. The
752 keyword for catching the TreeFingerSalute is
753 now "ctrlaltdel" instead of "power{wait,fail}".
756 - Fixed last to reckognize BSD style wtmp logging.
757 - Changed init to write wtmp records that are
758 SysV compliant but are also reckognized by the
759 BSD last. Added a '+' option to the 'process'
760 field of inittab, for getties that want to do
761 their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping (kludge!).
762 - Now accepts a runlevel on the command line,
763 and reckognizes the 'auto' argument. (Sets the
764 environment variable AUTOBOOT to YES)
767 - Ripped out the 'leave' action. To difficult, and
769 - Going single user now kills _all_ processes.
770 - Added '-t secs' option to all commands.
771 - This version is stable enough to post.
774 - Made wait()'s asynchronous
775 - Changed whole thing to one big state machine
776 - Now using 'pseudo levels' # & * for SYSINIT & BOOT
777 - Added a new type of 'action', called leave. This
778 process will be executed when the system goes from a
779 runlevel specified in it's runlevel field to a
780 level that's not. Nice to bring down NFS and the like.
783 - Fixed a bug with 'boot' and 'once'.
784 - Check 'initdefault' for validity.
785 - Reckognizes "single" as command line argument.
786 - Retries execvp with 'sh -c exec ..' if command
787 is a shell script. (shouldn't execvp do this?)
788 - Added patches to use syslog if defined.
791 - Rewrote the code totally, so started with a new
793 - Dropped Minix support, this code now is Linux - specific.
794 - With TEST switch on, this init & telinit can
795 run standalone for test purposes.
798 - Got a 386, so installed Linux. Added 'soft' reboot
799 to be default under linux. Fixed some typos.
802 - Bugreport from Michael Haardt ; removed deadlock
803 and added 'waitpid' instead of 'wait' for SYSV.
806 - Read manual wrong: there is no 'action' field called
807 process, but all entries are of type process. Every
808 'process' get exec'ed by /bin/sh -c 'exec command'.
809 - Rapidly respawning processes are caught in the act.
810 - _SYSV support is really Linux support,
811 done by poe@daimi.aau.dk on 25-Mar-92.
814 - Initial version, very primitive for the Minix
815 operating system. Required some mods. to the