1 sysvinit (2.88dsf) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Mention new home on Savannah in README.
4 * Revert change from Fedora/RedHat where the now obsolete command
5 INIT_CMD_CHANGECONS was introduced. Based on feedback and patch
7 * Adjust makefile to make sure the install directories are created
8 before files are copied into them.
9 * Fix minor bug in optimizing of argument parsing. Based on
10 report from jakemus on freshmeat.
11 * Add casts to get rid of compiler warning about signed/unsigned issues.
12 * Change tty handling in init to make sure the UTF-8 flag is not cleared
13 on boot. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
14 * Add Makefile in toplevel directory.
15 * Print usage information when shutdown is used by non-root user.
16 Patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
18 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
20 sysvinit (2.87dsf) world; urgency=low
22 * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
23 * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
24 * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
25 * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
26 * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
27 Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
28 * Adjust output from "last -x". In reboot lines, print endpoint
29 of uptime too. In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
30 the time between downs. Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
32 * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last. Patch from Fedora.
33 * Document last options in usage information, previously only
34 mentioned in the manual page.
35 * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
36 of the short form provided by default. Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
38 * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
40 * Increase the compiler warning level when building.
41 * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Bill
42 Nottingham and Fedora.
43 * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
44 Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
45 * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
46 the new process. Patch from RedHat.
47 * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
48 re-exec. Patch from RedHat.
49 * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
50 boot. Patch from SuSe.
51 * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6. Patch from Thomas Hood.
52 * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink. Patch from
54 * Improve error message from init if fork() fail. Patch found in Suse.
55 * Add support for SE Linux capability handling. Patch from Manoj
56 Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
57 the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
58 * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
59 process root. Ignore -c when not running as root. Patch from
60 Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
61 * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
62 process name can be one character longer. Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
63 * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
64 the child successfully.
65 * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
66 fdatasync(). Patch from Thomas Hood.
67 * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
68 not exist. Patch from Thomas Hood.
69 * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA. Patch
71 * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
72 value is usable on re-exec. Patch from Thomas Hood.
73 * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
74 to reschedule. Patch from SuSe.
75 * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
76 * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
77 and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option. Patch from
79 * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
80 Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
81 * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly. Patches
82 from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
83 * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
84 string lengths. Patch from SuSe.
85 * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
86 * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake. Patch from SuSe.
87 * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
88 processes to kill. Patch from Debian.
89 * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
90 some pids during shutdown. Based on patch from Colin Watson and
92 * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages. Patch from Debian.
93 * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
94 changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
95 avoiding stat() when the value isn't used. Also, lock process
96 pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
97 Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
99 * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
100 and document this requirement in the manual page.
101 * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
102 Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
103 * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
104 shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.
106 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
108 sysvinit (2.86) cistron; urgency=low
110 * Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal
111 linebuffer to process \r, \t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
112 * Applied trivial OWL patches
113 * Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
114 (James Olin Oden <joden@malachi.lee.k12.nc.us>, redhat bug #97534)
115 * Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
116 * killall5 now skips kernel threads
117 * Inittab entries with both 'S' and other runlevels were broken.
118 Fix by Bryan Kadzban <bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
119 * Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
120 * You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in
121 init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only
122 variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
123 16 variables. There's also a length limit due to the size
124 of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
125 * Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and
126 INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
127 * Add "mountpoint" utility.
128 * Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
129 * Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t,
130 sulogin-message, user-console)
132 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
134 sysvinit (2.85) cistron; urgency=low
136 * Add IPv6 support in last(1)
137 * Sulogin: even if the root password is empty, ask for a password-
138 otherwise there is no way to set a timeout.
139 * Removed support for ioctl.save.
140 * Turned of support for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/run/initrunlvl
141 * Fixed warts in dowall.c ("Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>)
142 * Fix init.c::spawn(). The "f" variable was used both as file descriptor
143 and waitpid(2) return code. In certain circumstances, this leads to
144 TIOCSCTTY with wrong file descriptor (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
145 * Fix fd leak in sulogin (Dmitry V. Levin).
146 * More error checking in all wait() calling code (Dmitry V. Levin).
147 * Fix argv[] initialization in spawn() (Dmitry V. Levin).
148 * Change strncpy to strncat in most places (Dmitry V. Levin).
150 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:37:57 +0200
152 sysvinit (2.84) cistron; urgency=low
154 * Don't use /etc/initlvl interface for telinit; only use /dev/initctl,
155 and give a clear error when that fails.
156 * Add -i/--init command line flag to init - this tells init
157 'behave as system init even if you're not PID#1'. Useful for
158 testing in chroot/jail type environments.
160 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:10:08 +0100
162 sysvinit (2.83) cistron; urgency=low
164 * Fix bug in shutdown where it didn't check correctly for a
165 virtual console when checking /etc/shutdown.allow
166 * Fix race condition in waitpid() [Andrea Arcangeli]
167 * Call closelog() after openlog()/syslog() since recent libc's
168 keep the logging fd open and that is fd#0 aka stdin.
170 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:27:06 +0200
172 sysvinit (2.82) cistron; urgency=low
174 * Print out correct version number at startup.
175 * Fix spelling of initttab in init(8)
177 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:50:44 +0200
179 sysvinit (2.81) cistron; urgency=low
181 * Fix typo/bug in killall5/pidof, -o option failed to work since 2.79.
182 Reformatted source code to prevent this from happening again.
183 * shutdown.8: applied redhat manpage update
184 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sulogin-nologin.patch
185 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-notty.patch
186 * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
188 sysvinit (2.80) cistron; urgency=low
190 * Grammar/spelling fixes in shutdown.c (Christian Steinrueck)
191 * Don't set controlling tty for non-(sysinit,boot,single) runlevels
193 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:26:56 +0200
195 sysvinit (2.79) cistron; urgency=low
197 * New upstream version
198 * several fixes to wall by Tim Robbins <fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org>
199 * Several extra boundary checks by Solar Designer
200 * Make /dev/console controlling tty
201 * Stricter checks on ownership of tty by mesg(1)
202 * Documented and restricted -n option to wall(1)
203 * Make it compile with glibc 2.2.2
204 * Document IO redirection in wall manpage (closes: #79491)
205 * Update README (closes: #85650)
206 * Fix init.8 manpage (closes: #75268)
207 * Fix typo in halt(8) manpage (closes: #67875)
208 * Check time argument of shutdown(8) for correctness (closes: #67825)
209 * Check for stale sessions in last(1) (Chris Wolf <cwolf@starclass.com>)
211 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:04:36 +0200
213 sysvinit (2.78-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
215 * Change "booting" to "reloading" message at reload
216 * Add "-z xxx" dummy command line argument (closes: #54717)
218 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:17:54 +0100
220 sysvinit (2.78-1) unstable; urgency=low
222 * 2.78 will be the new upstream version, I'm skipping 2.77
223 * Shutdown now calls sync before switching the runlevel to 0 or 6,
224 or before unmounting filesystems if -n was used (closes: #46461)
225 * Some cosmetic changes to init.c (closes: #32079)
227 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:40:23 +0100
229 sysvinit (2.77-2) unstable; urgency=low
233 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
235 sysvinit (2.77-1) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Write reboot record into utmp file as well to make rms happy
238 * Fork and dump core in / if SIGSEGV is received for debugging purposes
239 * Patch by Craig Sanders <cas@vicnet.net.au> for "last" -i option
241 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:16:23 +0200
243 sysvinit (2.76-4) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Change dowall.c to handle Unix98 ptys correctly
246 * Add comment in rcS about usage of setup.sh and unconfigured.sh
247 * Shutdown now removes nologin file just before calling telinit
248 * SEGV handler now tries to continue after sleep of 30 seconds.
249 On a 386-class processor it also prints out the value of EIP.
250 * Fix for racecondition in check_init_fifo() by Richard Gooch
252 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 8 May 1999 17:22:57 +0200
254 sysvinit (2.76-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
256 * Small bugfix to last.c courtesy of Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.ml.org>
258 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:44 +0100
260 sysvinit (2.76-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
262 * Fix bug in check_pipe() which crashes init on the Alpha.
264 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:09:13 +0100
266 sysvinit (2.75-4) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Change sulogin password buffer to 128 characters.
269 * Don't print control characters in dowall.c
270 * Try to open getenv ("CONSOLE"), /dev/console and /dev/tty0 in order.
271 For backwards compatibility when you try to boot a 2.0.x kernel
272 with a linux > 2.1.70 /dev/console device.
273 * Change src/Makefile for non-debian systems (mainly, RedHat)
274 * Try to create /dev/initctl if not present; check every time to see
275 if the dev/ino of /dev/initctl has changed and re-open it. This should
277 * Send SIGUSR1 to init at bootup to let it re-open /dev/initctl;
278 again in support of devfs.
279 * Moved pidof to /bin (it's only a link to killall5 anyway)
281 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:03:14 +0200
283 sysvinit (2.75-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
286 * Add check to see if /dev/initctl is really a FIFO
287 * In ifdown.c first down all shaper devices then the real devices
289 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200
291 sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
293 * Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
294 thanks to Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> and
295 David Parrish <dparrish@zeta.org.au>
297 #21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
298 #21765: sysvinit: Typo in `killall5.c'
299 #21775: sysvinit: sysvinit does not support MD5 hashed passwords
300 #21990: /usr/bin/last: unnecessary memset and off-by-one bug
301 #22084: sysvinit 2.74-4: SIGPWR missing on sparc
302 #21900: init, powerfail events, and shutdown.allow
303 #21702: init 0 does not work as expected...
304 #21728: sysvinit: Typo in `init.c'
305 #22363: sysvinit: discrepance btw. manpage and /sbin/init
307 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29 +0200
309 sysvinit (2.74-4) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
311 * Add -o option to last to process libc5 utmp files.
312 * Buffer overflow fixed in init.c (not very serious; only exploitable
313 by root). Thanks to Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
315 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:04:33 +0200
317 sysvinit (2.74-1) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Should compile with glibc 1.99 :)
320 * Change behaviour of reboot(1) and halt(1) so that the default when
321 the runlevel can't be determined is to call shutdown.
322 * Added re-exec patch from Al Viro (21 Feb 1998):
323 'U' flag added to telinit. It forces init to re-exec itself
324 (passing its state through exec, certainly).
325 May be useful for smoother (heh) upgrades.
327 did_boot made global and added to state - thanks, Miquel.
328 Yet another file descriptors leak - close state pipe if
331 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:42:46 +0100
333 sysvinit (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Change _NSIG to NSIG for 2.1.x kernel includes.
337 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:01:02 +0100
339 sysvinit (2.73-1) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Use siginterrupt, now that system calls are restarted by default.
342 Main symptom was that the sulogin timeout didn't work but there
343 might have been more hidden problems.
344 * Kill process immidiately if turned off in inittab
345 * Fixed sulogin check on tty arg.
346 * Use strerror() instead of sys_errlist
347 * wall now supports a '-n' option to suppress [most of] the banner.
348 Debian doesn't use sysvinit's wall, but apparently Redhat does.
349 * Add '-F' (forcefsck) option to shutdown
350 * Close and reopen /dev/initctl on SIGUSR1 (mainly for a /dev in ram)
352 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:32:39 +0100
354 sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
358 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:00 +0200
360 sysvinit (2.72) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Applied manual page patches by Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>. Thanks Bill!
363 * Applied patches to the sample Slackware scripts by
364 "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
365 * Fix halt and reboot runlevels 0 & 6 check.
366 * Only say "no more processes left in runlevel x" once
367 * Fix race condition with SIGCHLD in spawn()
368 (thanks to Alon Ziv <alonz@CS.Technion.AC.IL>)
369 * Compress all manpages (missed 2)
371 * Added poweroff patch by Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>
373 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:20:17 +0200
375 sysvinit (2.71-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
377 * Print 2.71 instead of 2.70 on startup :)
379 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 May 1997 12:45:25 +0200
381 sysvinit (2.71-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
383 * Added code for updwtmp() in utmp.c for glibc (2.0.3)
384 * Fixed all programs to use functions from utmp.c and getutent()
385 * Do not try to clean up utmp in init itself (Bug#9022)
386 * Removed sync() from main loop.
387 * Hopefully fixes bug #8657 (shutdown signal handling)
389 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:27 +0200
391 sysvinit (2.70-1) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Removed StUdLy CaPs from source code
395 * Moved files in source archive around
396 * Fixes for glibc (utmp handling, signal handling).
397 * Fixed '-d' option to last (now also works without '-a').
398 * Added extra checking in last.c to prevent showing dead entries
400 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:31:30 +0100
402 sysvinit (2.69-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
404 * Fixed bug that can throw X in a loop (or any other app that reads from
407 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:32:24 +0100
409 sysvinit (2.67-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
411 * Fixes problem with /dev/console being controlling terminal of some
413 * Puts copyright file in the right place
415 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:23:33 +0100
417 sysvinit (2.66-1) unstable; urgency=medium
419 * Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
421 * Also compiles and runs with GNU libc (and on the Alpha)
422 * Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
423 * Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
424 * Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
425 * Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait
426 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
427 * Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
428 /var/log and /etc itself.
430 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:46:54 +0100
433 - Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
435 - Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
436 - Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
437 - Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
438 - Ported to Linux/Alpha and GNU libc.
439 - Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait.
440 This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
441 - Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
442 /var/log and /etc itself.
445 - Init checks CONSOLE environment variable on startup (overrides /dev/console)
446 - Init sets CONSOLE variable for all its children.
447 - Wtmp(): when zeroing out old utmp entries, keep ut_id field
448 - Wtmp(): try to re-use ut_id field if possible.
449 - SetTerm(): only read from /etc/ioctl.save if written once.
450 - Included start-stop-daemon, C version (source only).
451 - Fixed wait() for the emergency shell.
452 - killall5: ignore signal before doing kill(-1, pid).
455 - Fixed preinst script for Debian
456 - Fixed init.c to become init daemon if name is init.new
457 - Fixed pidof to not return PIDs of shell scripts
460 - Changed debian /etc/init.d/boot script to create a nologin file
461 at boot and to remove it just before going multiuser.
464 - Decided to release a 2.62 version with a BIG WARNING about upgrading
465 init in it. Will send a patch to Linus for the linux/Documentation/Changes
466 file so that 2.62 or later is mentioned as the version to upgrade to.
467 - Added docs for Slackware
470 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/network for the lo device.
471 - Added "-xdev" to the cd /tmp && find in debian/etc/init.d/boot
472 - Made remove time for files in /tmp configurable.
475 - Changed /etc/init.d/boot script again
476 - Fixed problem in init.c with trailing whitespace after entries in inittab
477 - Fixed killall5 problems
478 - Added manpage for lastb
479 - Added SHELL= environment variable to sulogin
480 - Fixed sulogin & shadow problems
481 - Added timeout option to sulogin
484 - Fixed sulogin (didn't work if root wasn't first entry in shadow file)
485 - Fixed mesg for systems with "tty" group (such as Debian)
486 - Fixed nsyslog() in killall5.c
489 - Fixed race condition in init.c, resulting in hanging shutdowns.
490 Courtesy of Max Neunhoeffer <Max.Neunhoeffer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.
491 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/boot for swapon and mdadd
492 - Added architecture to debian.control
493 - Added manpages for rc.boot and rc.local
494 - Updated inittab manpage for 4-character runlevel field
495 - Added debian replaces for bsdutils < version_without_mesg
496 - Fixed init.c so that it also works with kernels 1.3.81 and up
499 - Init logs less to syslog (suspected to hang in syslog() or openlog() )
500 - removed closelog() from init.c
501 - removed time check of runlevel record in halt.
502 - Added options to last to get hostname from ut_addr field
503 - Added last and mesg to installation targets
504 - rewrote /etc/init.d/boot a bit.
507 - Changed etc/init.d/rc to do a stty onlcr
508 - Added /var/log/initrunlvl symlink
511 - Added the latest debian files.
512 - Added support for 4-character id fields (if you have libc5).
513 - Fixed pidof (in killall5) parsing of /proc/.../stat
514 - Save restore GMT setting in /etc/init.d/boot
518 - Added "-b" flag to init, gives a shell before
519 anything else (in case the startup scripts are screwed)
520 - Moved fastboot to /fastboot
521 - Folded in Debian patches.
522 - Removed old scripts
523 - Added debian /etc/directory.
526 - Changed over to init_request (with initreq.h)
527 - Processes no longer killed when "process" field
528 changes, change takes effect after next respawn.
531 - Bugfix release for Debian and Slackware 3.0
534 - Fixed race condition init init.c wrt got_chld
535 - Fixed one-off for malloc in killall5.c
537 - Console code: no relink to /dev/systty on CTRL-ALT-DEL)
540 - Changed a few things here and there, didn't
541 really document it :)
544 - Added option to shutdown to run standalone.
547 - Added GNU copyrigh to all *.[ch] files.
548 - added /etc/initscript
549 - reboot and halt now call shutdown in runlevels 1-5
550 - Can run from read-only root (CDROM)
553 - Renamed pidof to killall5, updated all scripts to
554 use killall5 instead of kill -1 ....
555 - Rewrote scripts to use this, and some general changes.
556 - Added SysV command line compatibility to shutdown.
559 - Added `powerfailnow' keyword, for when UPS battery is low.
561 - Fixed utmp handling (wrt. CLEAN_UTMP)
563 * Make last compatible with GNU/BSD (long options?)
565 * remote SIGPWR broadcast? in powerd? (with priv. port)
569 - Ignores unknown command line arguments.
570 - Modelled more after the "real" sysVinit
571 - Lots of changes all over the place.
572 (like showing runlevel in "ps" listing, logging
573 runlevel into utmp file etc)
574 - now using "reliable" signals instead of V7 style.
575 - Updated all scripts. Examples are in two directories:
576 etc (normal) and etc-sysv (sysv style scripts).
577 - runlevel 0 = halt, 1 = single user, 6 = reboot.
578 - added support for serial console.
579 - updated Propaganda, manpages.
580 - added shutdown access control.
583 - Send out the official version into the world as
587 - Changed init to really catch SIGPWR 'cause we
588 hooked up an UPS to the Linux machine. The
589 keyword for catching the TreeFingerSalute is
590 now "ctrlaltdel" instead of "power{wait,fail}".
593 - Fixed last to reckognize BSD style wtmp logging.
594 - Changed init to write wtmp records that are
595 SysV compliant but are also reckognized by the
596 BSD last. Added a '+' option to the 'process'
597 field of inittab, for getties that want to do
598 their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping (kludge!).
599 - Now accepts a runlevel on the command line,
600 and reckognizes the 'auto' argument. (Sets the
601 environment variable AUTOBOOT to YES)
604 - Ripped out the 'leave' action. To difficult, and
606 - Going single user now kills _all_ processes.
607 - Added '-t secs' option to all commands.
608 - This version is stable enough to post.
611 - Made wait()'s asynchronous
612 - Changed whole thing to one big state machine
613 - Now using 'pseudo levels' # & * for SYSINIT & BOOT
614 - Added a new type of 'action', called leave. This
615 process will be executed when the system goes from a
616 runlevel specified in it's runlevel field to a
617 level that's not. Nice to bring down NFS and the like.
620 - Fixed a bug with 'boot' and 'once'.
621 - Check 'initdefault' for validity.
622 - Reckognizes "single" as command line argument.
623 - Retries execvp with 'sh -c exec ..' if command
624 is a shell script. (shouldn't execvp do this?)
625 - Added patches to use syslog if defined.
628 - Rewrote the code totally, so started with a new
630 - Dropped Minix support, this code now is Linux - specific.
631 - With TEST switch on, this init & telinit can
632 run standalone for test purposes.
635 - Got a 386, so installed Linux. Added 'soft' reboot
636 to be default under linux. Fixed some typos.
639 - Bugreport from Michael Haardt ; removed deadlock
640 and added 'waitpid' instead of 'wait' for SYSV.
643 - Read manual wrong: there is no 'action' field called
644 process, but all entries are of type process. Every
645 'process' get exec'ed by /bin/sh -c 'exec command'.
646 - Rapidly respawning processes are caught in the act.
647 - _SYSV support is really Linux support,
648 done by poe@daimi.aau.dk on 25-Mar-92.
651 - Initial version, very primitive for the Minix
652 operating system. Required some mods. to the