1 sysvinit (2.89dsf) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Remove man-db tag for encoding for canonical man
5 * Sulogin: try to detect the real device(s) used for the system console
6 /dev/console if but only if /dev/console is used. On Linux this can
7 be more than one device, e.g. a serial line as well as a virtual
8 console as well as a simple printer.
9 * Fix counting message lines in wall. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
10 * Fix bad printf conversion specifier in wall. Patch from Sébastien Luttringer.
11 * Add patches from Openwall project. Thanks goes to Solar Designer.
12 * Add code to detect the system consoles with the help of the
13 new /proc/consoles files of linux kernel 2.6.38+
14 * Try to make utmpdump IPv6 valid, change based on suggestion from
15 Navdeep Bhatia (see local bug #32429)
16 * Fix signal and alarm handling based on the patch from Florent Viard.
17 (was local bug #32304)
18 * Add fix for Redhat bug #573346: last incorrectly displays IPv6
19 addresses (was local bug #29497)
20 * Correct fix for Debian bug #547073: use IUTF8 flag if defined
21 and if already set to make sure the utf-8 flag is not cleared
22 from the tty. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
23 * Include limits.h in killall.c to enforce definition of PATH_MAX
24 * Fix sysvinit bug #29758 Linker invocation should not contain
25 headers. Change based on patch from Elias Pipping.
26 * Add fix for Debian bug #580272: use return value 1 of
27 is_selinux_enabled() to determine if SELinux is enabled,
28 otherwise initialize SELinux and load the policy. Patch from
30 * Make quotes visible in example of the manual page of fstab-decode
31 * Sulogin: enforce reconnection of stdin/stdout/stderr if a device
34 [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
35 * Next release will be 2.89dsf.
36 * Add #ifdef in bootlogd.c to avoid gcc warnings about unused
37 variable on non-linux platforms.
38 * Only set the VSWTC field for termios in init if it is available,
39 to get the source building on FreeBSD.
41 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010
43 sysvinit (2.88dsf) world; urgency=low
45 [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
46 * Mention new home on Savannah in README.
47 * Revert change from Fedora/RedHat where the now obsolete command
48 INIT_CMD_CHANGECONS was introduced. Based on feedback and patch
50 * Adjust makefile to make sure the install directories are created
51 before files are copied into them.
52 * Simplify build rules, based on patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
53 * Fix minor bug in optimizing of argument parsing. Based on
54 report from jakemus on freshmeat.
55 * Add casts to get rid of compiler warning about signed/unsigned issues.
56 * Change tty handling in init to make sure the UTF-8 flag is not cleared
57 on boot. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
58 * Add Makefile in toplevel directory.
59 * Print usage information when shutdown is used by non-root user.
60 Patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
61 * Sync shutdown manual page and usage information. Patch from Mike
63 * Fix race condition in utmp writing. Patch from Gil Kloepfer via
64 Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
65 * Rewrite findtty() in bootlogd to recursively search /dev/ for the
66 correct device, to handle terminal devices for example in /dev/pty/.
68 * Make sure bootlogd findpty() returns an error value when it fails to
69 find a usable pty. Patch from Rob Leslie via Debian.
70 * Make sure bootlogd fflush() every line, even if asked not to flush
71 to disk using fdatasync(). Patch from Scott Gifford via Debian.
72 * Add compatibility code to handle old path "/etc/powerstatus" for a
74 * Incude definition for MNT_DETACH which is missing in older GNU libc
76 * Do not strip binaries before installing them, to make it easier to
77 get binaries with debug information installed.
80 * Add the comment from Andrea Arcangeli about the correct
81 place of setting the default childhandler within spawn().
82 * Make sure that newline is printed out for last(1) even
83 if an utmp record entry is truncated.
84 * Check if utmp not only exists but also is writable and delay
85 writing out of the utmp runlevel record if utmp is not writable.
86 * Be able to find libcrypt also on 64 bit based architectures.
87 * Add option -w to the last command to display the full user and
88 domain names in the output. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
89 * Add a manual page for utmpdump as this tool is sometimes
90 very useful even if not intended for normal use.
91 * Use paths.h macros for wall
92 * Change path "/etc/powerstatus" to "/var/run/powerstatus"
93 * Detected also removable block devices at halt/reboot to be able
94 to flush data and send them the ATA standby command. This should
95 avoid data loss on USB sticks and other removable block devices.
96 * Flush block devices on halt/reboot if not done by the kernel.
97 * Set SHELL to /bin/sh in the environmant of shutdown.
98 * Retry to write out shutdown messages if interrupted.
99 * pidof/killall5 - make omit pid list a dynamic one.
100 * pidof - provide '-n' to skip stat(2) syscall on network based FS.
101 * init - avoid compiler warnings
102 * init - initialize console by using the macros from ttydefaults.h
103 * init - add the possiblity to ignore further interrupts from keyboard
104 * init - add the possiblity to set sane terminal line settings
105 * sulogin - add the possibility to reset the terminal io
106 * Fix some minor problems
107 * init - enable is_selinux_enabled() to detect selinuxfs
108 * Add fix for Debian bug #536574 -- Can be enabled by -DACCTON_OFF
109 * Add helper program fstab-decode to make it easier to handle
110 /etc/mtab content. Patch by Miloslav Trmac and Fedora.
111 * Add fix for Debian bug #335023 - Make sure TERM is set on FreeBSD.
112 * Add fix for Debian bug #374038 - Make it clear that shutdown -c can
113 only cancel a waiting shutdown, not an active one.
114 * Add note to pidof manual page about the use of readlink(2). Patch by
115 Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
116 * Add PAM patch contrib/notify-pam-dead.patch based on Debian bug
117 #68621, which will add PAM support for programs spawned by init on
118 the console like sulogin. Based on patch by Topi Miettinen. This
119 patch is not applied by default yet while we review its
120 usefullness. It is only helpful for session handling, as sulogin
121 do not use and will not use a PAM conv() function. The current
122 sulogin is able to handle DES as well as MD5, SHA, and Blowfish
123 encrypted passwords due using getpwnam(3).
124 * Move utmp/wtmp before the execvp() in spawn() to be sure to
125 use the correct pid even on a controlling tty
126 * Remaining problem is that the pid of the second fork() for
127 getting a controlling tty isn't that reported by spawn()
128 * Re-enable writting utmp/wtmp for boot scripts
129 * Extend sulogin to support additional encryption algorithms
130 * Re-enable maintenance message of sulogin
131 * Enable the sulogin fallback password check to handle MD5, SHA, and
132 Blowfish encrypted passwords in case of getpwnam(3) fails.
133 * sulogin picking the SELinux context was broken. Patch by Daniel Walsh
135 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010
137 sysvinit (2.87dsf) world; urgency=low
139 * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
140 * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
141 * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
142 * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
143 * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
144 Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
145 * Adjust output from "last -x". In reboot lines, print endpoint
146 of uptime too. In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
147 the time between downs. Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
148 Patch by Thomas Hood.
149 * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last. Patch from Fedora.
150 * Document last options in usage information, previously only
151 mentioned in the manual page.
152 * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
153 of the short form provided by default. Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
155 * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
157 * Increase the compiler warning level when building.
158 * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Bill
159 Nottingham and Fedora.
160 * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
161 Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
162 * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
163 the new process. Patch from RedHat.
164 * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
165 re-exec. Patch from RedHat.
166 * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
167 boot. Patch from SuSe.
168 * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6. Patch from Thomas Hood.
169 * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink. Patch from
171 * Improve error message from init if fork() fail. Patch found in Suse.
172 * Add support for SE Linux capability handling. Patch from Manoj
173 Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
174 the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
175 * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
176 process root. Ignore -c when not running as root. Patch from
177 Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
178 * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
179 process name can be one character longer. Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
180 * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
181 the child successfully.
182 * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
183 fdatasync(). Patch from Thomas Hood.
184 * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
185 not exist. Patch from Thomas Hood.
186 * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA. Patch
188 * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
189 value is usable on re-exec. Patch from Thomas Hood.
190 * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
191 to reschedule. Patch from SuSe.
192 * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
193 * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
194 and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option. Patch from
196 * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
197 Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
198 * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly. Patches
199 from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
200 * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
201 string lengths. Patch from SuSe.
202 * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
203 * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake. Patch from SuSe.
204 * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
205 processes to kill. Patch from Debian.
206 * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
207 some pids during shutdown. Based on patch from Colin Watson and
209 * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages. Patch from Debian.
210 * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
211 changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
212 avoiding stat() when the value isn't used. Also, lock process
213 pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
214 Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
216 * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
217 and document this requirement in the manual page.
218 * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
219 Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
220 * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
221 shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.
223 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
225 sysvinit (2.86) cistron; urgency=low
227 * Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal
228 linebuffer to process \r, \t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
229 * Applied trivial OWL patches
230 * Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
231 (James Olin Oden <joden@malachi.lee.k12.nc.us>, redhat bug #97534)
232 * Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
233 * killall5 now skips kernel threads
234 * Inittab entries with both 'S' and other runlevels were broken.
235 Fix by Bryan Kadzban <bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
236 * Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
237 * You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in
238 init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only
239 variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
240 16 variables. There's also a length limit due to the size
241 of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
242 * Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and
243 INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
244 * Add "mountpoint" utility.
245 * Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
246 * Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t,
247 sulogin-message, user-console)
249 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
251 sysvinit (2.85) cistron; urgency=low
253 * Add IPv6 support in last(1)
254 * Sulogin: even if the root password is empty, ask for a password-
255 otherwise there is no way to set a timeout.
256 * Removed support for ioctl.save.
257 * Turned of support for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/run/initrunlvl
258 * Fixed warts in dowall.c ("Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>)
259 * Fix init.c::spawn(). The "f" variable was used both as file descriptor
260 and waitpid(2) return code. In certain circumstances, this leads to
261 TIOCSCTTY with wrong file descriptor (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
262 * Fix fd leak in sulogin (Dmitry V. Levin).
263 * More error checking in all wait() calling code (Dmitry V. Levin).
264 * Fix argv[] initialization in spawn() (Dmitry V. Levin).
265 * Change strncpy to strncat in most places (Dmitry V. Levin).
267 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:37:57 +0200
269 sysvinit (2.84) cistron; urgency=low
271 * Don't use /etc/initlvl interface for telinit; only use /dev/initctl,
272 and give a clear error when that fails.
273 * Add -i/--init command line flag to init - this tells init
274 'behave as system init even if you're not PID#1'. Useful for
275 testing in chroot/jail type environments.
277 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:10:08 +0100
279 sysvinit (2.83) cistron; urgency=low
281 * Fix bug in shutdown where it didn't check correctly for a
282 virtual console when checking /etc/shutdown.allow
283 * Fix race condition in waitpid() [Andrea Arcangeli]
284 * Call closelog() after openlog()/syslog() since recent libc's
285 keep the logging fd open and that is fd#0 aka stdin.
287 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:27:06 +0200
289 sysvinit (2.82) cistron; urgency=low
291 * Print out correct version number at startup.
292 * Fix spelling of initttab in init(8)
294 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:50:44 +0200
296 sysvinit (2.81) cistron; urgency=low
298 * Fix typo/bug in killall5/pidof, -o option failed to work since 2.79.
299 Reformatted source code to prevent this from happening again.
300 * shutdown.8: applied redhat manpage update
301 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sulogin-nologin.patch
302 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-notty.patch
303 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
305 sysvinit (2.80) cistron; urgency=low
307 * Grammar/spelling fixes in shutdown.c (Christian Steinrueck)
308 * Don't set controlling tty for non-(sysinit,boot,single) runlevels
310 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:26:56 +0200
312 sysvinit (2.79) cistron; urgency=low
314 * New upstream version
315 * several fixes to wall by Tim Robbins <fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org>
316 * Several extra boundary checks by Solar Designer
317 * Make /dev/console controlling tty
318 * Stricter checks on ownership of tty by mesg(1)
319 * Documented and restricted -n option to wall(1)
320 * Make it compile with glibc 2.2.2
321 * Document IO redirection in wall manpage (closes: #79491)
322 * Update README (closes: #85650)
323 * Fix init.8 manpage (closes: #75268)
324 * Fix typo in halt(8) manpage (closes: #67875)
325 * Check time argument of shutdown(8) for correctness (closes: #67825)
326 * Check for stale sessions in last(1) (Chris Wolf <cwolf@starclass.com>)
328 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:04:36 +0200
330 sysvinit (2.78-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
332 * Change "booting" to "reloading" message at reload
333 * Add "-z xxx" dummy command line argument (closes: #54717)
335 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:17:54 +0100
337 sysvinit (2.78-1) unstable; urgency=low
339 * 2.78 will be the new upstream version, I'm skipping 2.77
340 * Shutdown now calls sync before switching the runlevel to 0 or 6,
341 or before unmounting filesystems if -n was used (closes: #46461)
342 * Some cosmetic changes to init.c (closes: #32079)
344 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:40:23 +0100
346 sysvinit (2.77-2) unstable; urgency=low
350 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
352 sysvinit (2.77-1) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Write reboot record into utmp file as well to make rms happy
355 * Fork and dump core in / if SIGSEGV is received for debugging purposes
356 * Patch by Craig Sanders <cas@vicnet.net.au> for "last" -i option
358 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:16:23 +0200
360 sysvinit (2.76-4) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Change dowall.c to handle Unix98 ptys correctly
363 * Add comment in rcS about usage of setup.sh and unconfigured.sh
364 * Shutdown now removes nologin file just before calling telinit
365 * SEGV handler now tries to continue after sleep of 30 seconds.
366 On a 386-class processor it also prints out the value of EIP.
367 * Fix for racecondition in check_init_fifo() by Richard Gooch
369 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 8 May 1999 17:22:57 +0200
371 sysvinit (2.76-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
373 * Small bugfix to last.c courtesy of Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.ml.org>
375 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:44 +0100
377 sysvinit (2.76-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
379 * Fix bug in check_pipe() which crashes init on the Alpha.
381 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:09:13 +0100
383 sysvinit (2.75-4) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Change sulogin password buffer to 128 characters.
386 * Don't print control characters in dowall.c
387 * Try to open getenv ("CONSOLE"), /dev/console and /dev/tty0 in order.
388 For backwards compatibility when you try to boot a 2.0.x kernel
389 with a linux > 2.1.70 /dev/console device.
390 * Change src/Makefile for non-debian systems (mainly, RedHat)
391 * Try to create /dev/initctl if not present; check every time to see
392 if the dev/ino of /dev/initctl has changed and re-open it. This should
394 * Send SIGUSR1 to init at bootup to let it re-open /dev/initctl;
395 again in support of devfs.
396 * Moved pidof to /bin (it's only a link to killall5 anyway)
398 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:03:14 +0200
400 sysvinit (2.75-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
403 * Add check to see if /dev/initctl is really a FIFO
404 * In ifdown.c first down all shaper devices then the real devices
406 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200
408 sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
410 * Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
411 thanks to Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> and
412 David Parrish <dparrish@zeta.org.au>
414 #21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
415 #21765: sysvinit: Typo in `killall5.c'
416 #21775: sysvinit: sysvinit does not support MD5 hashed passwords
417 #21990: /usr/bin/last: unnecessary memset and off-by-one bug
418 #22084: sysvinit 2.74-4: SIGPWR missing on sparc
419 #21900: init, powerfail events, and shutdown.allow
420 #21702: init 0 does not work as expected...
421 #21728: sysvinit: Typo in `init.c'
422 #22363: sysvinit: discrepance btw. manpage and /sbin/init
424 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29 +0200
426 sysvinit (2.74-4) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
428 * Add -o option to last to process libc5 utmp files.
429 * Buffer overflow fixed in init.c (not very serious; only exploitable
430 by root). Thanks to Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
432 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:04:33 +0200
434 sysvinit (2.74-1) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Should compile with glibc 1.99 :)
437 * Change behaviour of reboot(1) and halt(1) so that the default when
438 the runlevel can't be determined is to call shutdown.
439 * Added re-exec patch from Al Viro (21 Feb 1998):
440 'U' flag added to telinit. It forces init to re-exec itself
441 (passing its state through exec, certainly).
442 May be useful for smoother (heh) upgrades.
444 did_boot made global and added to state - thanks, Miquel.
445 Yet another file descriptors leak - close state pipe if
448 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:42:46 +0100
450 sysvinit (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Change _NSIG to NSIG for 2.1.x kernel includes.
454 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:01:02 +0100
456 sysvinit (2.73-1) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Use siginterrupt, now that system calls are restarted by default.
459 Main symptom was that the sulogin timeout didn't work but there
460 might have been more hidden problems.
461 * Kill process immidiately if turned off in inittab
462 * Fixed sulogin check on tty arg.
463 * Use strerror() instead of sys_errlist
464 * wall now supports a '-n' option to suppress [most of] the banner.
465 Debian doesn't use sysvinit's wall, but apparently Redhat does.
466 * Add '-F' (forcefsck) option to shutdown
467 * Close and reopen /dev/initctl on SIGUSR1 (mainly for a /dev in ram)
469 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:32:39 +0100
471 sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
475 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:00 +0200
477 sysvinit (2.72) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Applied manual page patches by Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>. Thanks Bill!
480 * Applied patches to the sample Slackware scripts by
481 "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
482 * Fix halt and reboot runlevels 0 & 6 check.
483 * Only say "no more processes left in runlevel x" once
484 * Fix race condition with SIGCHLD in spawn()
485 (thanks to Alon Ziv <alonz@CS.Technion.AC.IL>)
486 * Compress all manpages (missed 2)
488 * Added poweroff patch by Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>
490 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:20:17 +0200
492 sysvinit (2.71-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
494 * Print 2.71 instead of 2.70 on startup :)
496 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 May 1997 12:45:25 +0200
498 sysvinit (2.71-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
500 * Added code for updwtmp() in utmp.c for glibc (2.0.3)
501 * Fixed all programs to use functions from utmp.c and getutent()
502 * Do not try to clean up utmp in init itself (Bug#9022)
503 * Removed sync() from main loop.
504 * Hopefully fixes bug #8657 (shutdown signal handling)
506 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:27 +0200
508 sysvinit (2.70-1) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Removed StUdLy CaPs from source code
512 * Moved files in source archive around
513 * Fixes for glibc (utmp handling, signal handling).
514 * Fixed '-d' option to last (now also works without '-a').
515 * Added extra checking in last.c to prevent showing dead entries
517 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:31:30 +0100
519 sysvinit (2.69-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
521 * Fixed bug that can throw X in a loop (or any other app that reads from
524 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:32:24 +0100
526 sysvinit (2.67-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
528 * Fixes problem with /dev/console being controlling terminal of some
530 * Puts copyright file in the right place
532 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:23:33 +0100
534 sysvinit (2.66-1) unstable; urgency=medium
536 * Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
538 * Also compiles and runs with GNU libc (and on the Alpha)
539 * Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
540 * Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
541 * Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
542 * Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait
543 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
544 * Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
545 /var/log and /etc itself.
547 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:46:54 +0100
550 - Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
552 - Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
553 - Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
554 - Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
555 - Ported to Linux/Alpha and GNU libc.
556 - Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait.
557 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
558 - Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
559 /var/log and /etc itself.
562 - Init checks CONSOLE environment variable on startup (overrides /dev/console)
563 - Init sets CONSOLE variable for all its children.
564 - Wtmp(): when zeroing out old utmp entries, keep ut_id field
565 - Wtmp(): try to re-use ut_id field if possible.
566 - SetTerm(): only read from /etc/ioctl.save if written once.
567 - Included start-stop-daemon, C version (source only).
568 - Fixed wait() for the emergency shell.
569 - killall5: ignore signal before doing kill(-1, pid).
572 - Fixed preinst script for Debian
573 - Fixed init.c to become init daemon if name is init.new
574 - Fixed pidof to not return PIDs of shell scripts
577 - Changed debian /etc/init.d/boot script to create a nologin file
578 at boot and to remove it just before going multiuser.
581 - Decided to release a 2.62 version with a BIG WARNING about upgrading
582 init in it. Will send a patch to Linus for the linux/Documentation/Changes
583 file so that 2.62 or later is mentioned as the version to upgrade to.
584 - Added docs for Slackware
587 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/network for the lo device.
588 - Added "-xdev" to the cd /tmp && find in debian/etc/init.d/boot
589 - Made remove time for files in /tmp configurable.
592 - Changed /etc/init.d/boot script again
593 - Fixed problem in init.c with trailing whitespace after entries in inittab
594 - Fixed killall5 problems
595 - Added manpage for lastb
596 - Added SHELL= environment variable to sulogin
597 - Fixed sulogin & shadow problems
598 - Added timeout option to sulogin
601 - Fixed sulogin (didn't work if root wasn't first entry in shadow file)
602 - Fixed mesg for systems with "tty" group (such as Debian)
603 - Fixed nsyslog() in killall5.c
606 - Fixed race condition in init.c, resulting in hanging shutdowns.
607 Courtesy of Max Neunhoeffer <Max.Neunhoeffer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.
608 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/boot for swapon and mdadd
609 - Added architecture to debian.control
610 - Added manpages for rc.boot and rc.local
611 - Updated inittab manpage for 4-character runlevel field
612 - Added debian replaces for bsdutils < version_without_mesg
613 - Fixed init.c so that it also works with kernels 1.3.81 and up
616 - Init logs less to syslog (suspected to hang in syslog() or openlog() )
617 - removed closelog() from init.c
618 - removed time check of runlevel record in halt.
619 - Added options to last to get hostname from ut_addr field
620 - Added last and mesg to installation targets
621 - rewrote /etc/init.d/boot a bit.
624 - Changed etc/init.d/rc to do a stty onlcr
625 - Added /var/log/initrunlvl symlink
628 - Added the latest debian files.
629 - Added support for 4-character id fields (if you have libc5).
630 - Fixed pidof (in killall5) parsing of /proc/.../stat
631 - Save restore GMT setting in /etc/init.d/boot
635 - Added "-b" flag to init, gives a shell before
636 anything else (in case the startup scripts are screwed)
637 - Moved fastboot to /fastboot
638 - Folded in Debian patches.
639 - Removed old scripts
640 - Added debian /etc/directory.
643 - Changed over to init_request (with initreq.h)
644 - Processes no longer killed when "process" field
645 changes, change takes effect after next respawn.
648 - Bugfix release for Debian and Slackware 3.0
651 - Fixed race condition init init.c wrt got_chld
652 - Fixed one-off for malloc in killall5.c
654 - Console code: no relink to /dev/systty on CTRL-ALT-DEL)
657 - Changed a few things here and there, didn't
658 really document it :)
661 - Added option to shutdown to run standalone.
664 - Added GNU copyrigh to all *.[ch] files.
665 - added /etc/initscript
666 - reboot and halt now call shutdown in runlevels 1-5
667 - Can run from read-only root (CDROM)
670 - Renamed pidof to killall5, updated all scripts to
671 use killall5 instead of kill -1 ....
672 - Rewrote scripts to use this, and some general changes.
673 - Added SysV command line compatibility to shutdown.
676 - Added `powerfailnow' keyword, for when UPS battery is low.
678 - Fixed utmp handling (wrt. CLEAN_UTMP)
680 * Make last compatible with GNU/BSD (long options?)
682 * remote SIGPWR broadcast? in powerd? (with priv. port)
686 - Ignores unknown command line arguments.
687 - Modelled more after the "real" sysVinit
688 - Lots of changes all over the place.
689 (like showing runlevel in "ps" listing, logging
690 runlevel into utmp file etc)
691 - now using "reliable" signals instead of V7 style.
692 - Updated all scripts. Examples are in two directories:
693 etc (normal) and etc-sysv (sysv style scripts).
694 - runlevel 0 = halt, 1 = single user, 6 = reboot.
695 - added support for serial console.
696 - updated Propaganda, manpages.
697 - added shutdown access control.
700 - Send out the official version into the world as
704 - Changed init to really catch SIGPWR 'cause we
705 hooked up an UPS to the Linux machine. The
706 keyword for catching the TreeFingerSalute is
707 now "ctrlaltdel" instead of "power{wait,fail}".
710 - Fixed last to reckognize BSD style wtmp logging.
711 - Changed init to write wtmp records that are
712 SysV compliant but are also reckognized by the
713 BSD last. Added a '+' option to the 'process'
714 field of inittab, for getties that want to do
715 their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping (kludge!).
716 - Now accepts a runlevel on the command line,
717 and reckognizes the 'auto' argument. (Sets the
718 environment variable AUTOBOOT to YES)
721 - Ripped out the 'leave' action. To difficult, and
723 - Going single user now kills _all_ processes.
724 - Added '-t secs' option to all commands.
725 - This version is stable enough to post.
728 - Made wait()'s asynchronous
729 - Changed whole thing to one big state machine
730 - Now using 'pseudo levels' # & * for SYSINIT & BOOT
731 - Added a new type of 'action', called leave. This
732 process will be executed when the system goes from a
733 runlevel specified in it's runlevel field to a
734 level that's not. Nice to bring down NFS and the like.
737 - Fixed a bug with 'boot' and 'once'.
738 - Check 'initdefault' for validity.
739 - Reckognizes "single" as command line argument.
740 - Retries execvp with 'sh -c exec ..' if command
741 is a shell script. (shouldn't execvp do this?)
742 - Added patches to use syslog if defined.
745 - Rewrote the code totally, so started with a new
747 - Dropped Minix support, this code now is Linux - specific.
748 - With TEST switch on, this init & telinit can
749 run standalone for test purposes.
752 - Got a 386, so installed Linux. Added 'soft' reboot
753 to be default under linux. Fixed some typos.
756 - Bugreport from Michael Haardt ; removed deadlock
757 and added 'waitpid' instead of 'wait' for SYSV.
760 - Read manual wrong: there is no 'action' field called
761 process, but all entries are of type process. Every
762 'process' get exec'ed by /bin/sh -c 'exec command'.
763 - Rapidly respawning processes are caught in the act.
764 - _SYSV support is really Linux support,
765 done by poe@daimi.aau.dk on 25-Mar-92.
768 - Initial version, very primitive for the Minix
769 operating system. Required some mods. to the