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   1 sysvinit (2.88dsf) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   2
   3   * Revert change from Fedora/RedHat where the now obsolete command
   4     INIT_CMD_CHANGECONS was introduced.  Based on feedback and patch
   5     from Bill Nottingham.
   6   * Adjust makefile to make sure the install directories are created
   7     before files are copied into them.
   8   * Fix minor bug in optimizing of argument parsing.  Based on
   9     report from jakemus on freshmeat.
  10   * Add casts to get rid of compiler warning about signed/unsigned issues.
  11   * Change tty handling in init to make sure the UTF-8 flag is not cleared
  12     on boot.  Patch from Samuel Thibault.
  13
  14  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>  Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
  15
  16 sysvinit (2.87dsf) world; urgency=low
  17
  18   * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
  19   * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
  20   * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
  21   * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
  22   * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
  23     Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
  24   * Adjust output from "last -x".  In reboot lines, print endpoint
  25     of uptime too.  In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
  26     the time between downs.  Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
  27     Patch by Thomas Hood.
  28   * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last.  Patch from Fedora.
  29   * Document last options in usage information, previously only
  30     mentioned in the manual page.
  31   * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
  32     of the short form provided by default.  Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
  33     and SuSe.
  34   * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
  35     are stripped.
  36   * Increase the compiler warning level when building.
  37   * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms.  Patch by Bill
  38     Nottingham and Fedora.
  39   * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
  40     Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
  41   * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
  42     the new process.  Patch from RedHat.
  43   * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
  44     re-exec.  Patch from RedHat.
  45   * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
  46     boot.  Patch from SuSe.
  47   * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6.  Patch from Thomas Hood.
  48   * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink.  Patch from
  49     Thomas Hood.
  50   * Improve error message from init if fork() fail.  Patch found in Suse.
  51   * Add support for SE Linux capability handling.  Patch from Manoj
  52     Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
  53     the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
  54   * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
  55     process root.  Ignore -c when not running as root.  Patch from
  56     Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
  57   * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
  58     process name can be one character longer.  Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
  59   * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
  60     the child successfully.
  61   * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
  62     fdatasync().  Patch from Thomas Hood.
  63   * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
  64     not exist.  Patch from Thomas Hood.
  65   * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA.  Patch
  66     from Thomas Hood.
  67   * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
  68     value is usable on re-exec.  Patch from Thomas Hood.
  69   * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
  70     to reschedule.  Patch from SuSe.
  71   * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
  72   * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
  73     and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option.  Patch from
  74     Samuel Thibault.
  75   * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
  76     Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
  77   * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly.  Patches
  78     from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
  79   * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
  80     string lengths.  Patch from SuSe.
  81   * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
  82   * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake.  Patch from SuSe.
  83   * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
  84     processes to kill.  Patch from Debian.
  85   * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
  86     some pids during shutdown.  Based on patch from Colin Watson and
  87     Ubuntu.
  88   * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages.  Patch from Debian.
  89   * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
  90     changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
  91     avoiding stat() when the value isn't used.  Also, lock process
  92     pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
  93     Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
  94     Modderman.
  95   * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
  96     and document this requirement in the manual page.
  97   * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
  98     Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
  99   * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
 100     shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.
 101
 102  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>  Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
 103
 104 sysvinit (2.86) cistron; urgency=low
 105
 106   * Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal
 107     linebuffer to process \r, \t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
 108   * Applied trivial OWL patches
 109   * Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
 110     (James Olin Oden <joden@malachi.lee.k12.nc.us>, redhat bug #97534)
 111   * Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
 112   * killall5 now skips kernel threads
 113   * Inittab entries with both 'S' and other runlevels were broken.
 114     Fix by Bryan Kadzban <bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
 115   * Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
 116   * You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in
 117     init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only
 118     variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
 119     16 variables. There's also a length limit due to the size
 120     of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
 121   * Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and
 122     INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
 123   * Add "mountpoint" utility.
 124   * Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
 125   * Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t,
 126     sulogin-message, user-console)
 127
 128  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
 129
 130 sysvinit (2.85) cistron; urgency=low
 131
 132   * Add IPv6 support in last(1)
 133   * Sulogin: even if the root password is empty, ask for a password-
 134     otherwise there is no way to set a timeout.
 135   * Removed support for ioctl.save.
 136   * Turned of support for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/run/initrunlvl
 137   * Fixed warts in dowall.c ("Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>)
 138   * Fix init.c::spawn(). The "f" variable was used both as file descriptor
 139     and waitpid(2) return code.  In certain circumstances, this leads to
 140     TIOCSCTTY with wrong file descriptor (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
 141   * Fix fd leak in sulogin (Dmitry V. Levin).
 142   * More error checking in all wait() calling code (Dmitry V. Levin).
 143   * Fix argv[] initialization in spawn() (Dmitry V. Levin).
 144   * Change strncpy to strncat in most places (Dmitry V. Levin).
 145
 146  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:37:57 +0200
 147
 148 sysvinit (2.84) cistron; urgency=low
 149
 150   * Don't use /etc/initlvl interface for telinit; only use /dev/initctl,
 151     and give a clear error when that fails.
 152   * Add -i/--init command line flag to init - this tells init
 153     'behave as system init even if you're not PID#1'. Useful for
 154     testing in chroot/jail type environments.
 155
 156  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:10:08 +0100
 157
 158 sysvinit (2.83) cistron; urgency=low
 159
 160   * Fix bug in shutdown where it didn't check correctly for a
 161     virtual console when checking /etc/shutdown.allow
 162   * Fix race condition in waitpid() [Andrea Arcangeli]
 163   * Call closelog() after openlog()/syslog() since recent libc's
 164     keep the logging fd open and that is fd#0 aka stdin.
 165
 166  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  2 Oct 2001 23:27:06 +0200
 167
 168 sysvinit (2.82) cistron; urgency=low
 169
 170   * Print out correct version number at startup.
 171   * Fix spelling of initttab in init(8)
 172
 173  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:50:44 +0200
 174
 175 sysvinit (2.81) cistron; urgency=low
 176
 177   * Fix typo/bug in killall5/pidof, -o option failed to work since 2.79.
 178     Reformatted source code to prevent this from happening again.
 179   * shutdown.8: applied redhat manpage update
 180   * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sulogin-nologin.patch
 181   * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-notty.patch
 182   * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
 183
 184 sysvinit (2.80) cistron; urgency=low
 185
 186   * Grammar/spelling fixes in shutdown.c (Christian Steinrueck)
 187   * Don't set controlling tty for non-(sysinit,boot,single) runlevels
 188
 189  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:26:56 +0200
 190
 191 sysvinit (2.79) cistron; urgency=low
 192
 193   * New upstream version
 194   * several fixes to wall by Tim Robbins <fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org>
 195   * Several extra boundary checks by Solar Designer
 196   * Make /dev/console controlling tty
 197   * Stricter checks on ownership of tty by mesg(1)
 198   * Documented and restricted -n option to wall(1)
 199   * Make it compile with glibc 2.2.2
 200   * Document IO redirection in wall manpage (closes: #79491)
 201   * Update README (closes: #85650)
 202   * Fix init.8 manpage (closes:  #75268)
 203   * Fix typo in halt(8) manpage (closes:  #67875)
 204   * Check time argument of shutdown(8) for correctness (closes: #67825)
 205   * Check for stale sessions in last(1) (Chris Wolf <cwolf@starclass.com>)
 206
 207  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Wed,  4 Jul 2001 15:04:36 +0200
 208
 209 sysvinit (2.78-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 210
 211   * Change "booting" to "reloading" message at reload
 212   * Add "-z xxx" dummy command line argument (closes: #54717)
 213
 214  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:17:54 +0100
 215
 216 sysvinit (2.78-1) unstable; urgency=low
 217
 218   * 2.78 will be the new upstream version, I'm skipping 2.77
 219   * Shutdown now calls sync before switching the runlevel to 0 or 6,
 220     or before unmounting filesystems if -n was used (closes: #46461)
 221   * Some cosmetic changes to init.c (closes: #32079)
 222
 223  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:40:23 +0100
 224
 225 sysvinit (2.77-2) unstable; urgency=low
 226
 227   * Fix last -i option
 228
 229  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  5 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
 230
 231 sysvinit (2.77-1) unstable; urgency=low
 232
 233   * Write reboot record into utmp file as well to make rms happy
 234   * Fork and dump core in / if SIGSEGV is received for debugging purposes
 235   * Patch by Craig Sanders <cas@vicnet.net.au> for "last" -i option
 236
 237  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Wed,  4 Aug 1999 11:16:23 +0200
 238
 239 sysvinit (2.76-4) unstable; urgency=low
 240
 241   * Change dowall.c to handle Unix98 ptys correctly
 242   * Add comment in rcS about usage of setup.sh and unconfigured.sh
 243   * Shutdown now removes nologin file just before calling telinit
 244   * SEGV handler now tries to continue after sleep of 30 seconds.
 245     On a 386-class processor it also prints out the value of EIP.
 246   * Fix for racecondition in check_init_fifo() by Richard Gooch
 247
 248  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sat,  8 May 1999 17:22:57 +0200
 249
 250 sysvinit (2.76-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 251
 252   * Small bugfix to last.c courtesy of Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.ml.org>
 253
 254  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:44 +0100
 255
 256 sysvinit (2.76-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 257
 258   * Fix bug in check_pipe() which crashes init on the Alpha.
 259
 260  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  3 Nov 1998 11:09:13 +0100
 261
 262 sysvinit (2.75-4) unstable; urgency=low
 263
 264   * Change sulogin password buffer to 128 characters.
 265   * Don't print control characters in dowall.c
 266   * Try to open getenv ("CONSOLE"), /dev/console and /dev/tty0 in order.
 267     For backwards compatibility when you try to boot a 2.0.x kernel
 268     with a linux > 2.1.70 /dev/console device.
 269   * Change src/Makefile for non-debian systems (mainly, RedHat)
 270   * Try to create /dev/initctl if not present; check every time to see
 271     if the dev/ino of /dev/initctl has changed and re-open it. This should
 272     help devfs a bit.
 273   * Send SIGUSR1 to init at bootup to let it re-open /dev/initctl;
 274     again in support of devfs.
 275   * Moved pidof to /bin (it's only a link to killall5 anyway)
 276
 277  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Mon,  5 Oct 1998 14:03:14 +0200
 278
 279 sysvinit (2.75-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
 280
 281   * Fix last.c again.
 282   * Add check to see if /dev/initctl is really a FIFO
 283   * In ifdown.c first down all shaper devices then the real devices
 284
 285  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200
 286
 287 sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
 288
 289   * Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
 290     thanks to Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> and
 291     David Parrish <dparrish@zeta.org.au>
 292   * Fixes bugs:
 293     #21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
 294     #21765: sysvinit: Typo in `killall5.c'
 295     #21775: sysvinit: sysvinit does not support MD5 hashed passwords
 296     #21990: /usr/bin/last: unnecessary memset and off-by-one bug
 297     #22084: sysvinit 2.74-4: SIGPWR missing on sparc
 298     #21900: init, powerfail events, and shutdown.allow
 299     #21702: init 0 does not work as expected...
 300     #21728: sysvinit: Typo in `init.c'
 301     #22363: sysvinit: discrepance btw. manpage and /sbin/init
 302
 303  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29 +0200
 304
 305 sysvinit (2.74-4) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
 306
 307   * Add -o option to last to process libc5 utmp files.
 308   * Buffer overflow fixed in init.c (not very serious; only exploitable
 309     by root). Thanks to Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
 310
 311  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:04:33 +0200
 312
 313 sysvinit (2.74-1) unstable; urgency=low
 314
 315   * Should compile with glibc 1.99 :)
 316   * Change behaviour of reboot(1) and halt(1) so that the default when
 317     the runlevel can't be determined is to call shutdown.
 318   * Added re-exec patch from Al Viro (21 Feb 1998):
 319         'U' flag added to telinit. It forces init to re-exec itself
 320         (passing its state through exec, certainly).
 321         May be useful for smoother (heh) upgrades.
 322         24 Feb 1998, AV:
 323         did_boot made global and added to state - thanks, Miquel.
 324         Yet another file descriptors leak - close state pipe if
 325         re_exec fails.
 326
 327  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:42:46 +0100
 328
 329 sysvinit (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low
 330
 331   * Change _NSIG to NSIG for 2.1.x kernel includes.
 332
 333  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu,  8 Jan 1998 16:01:02 +0100
 334
 335 sysvinit (2.73-1) unstable; urgency=low
 336
 337   * Use siginterrupt, now that system calls are restarted by default.
 338     Main symptom was that the sulogin timeout didn't work but there
 339     might have been more hidden problems.
 340   * Kill process immidiately if turned off in inittab
 341   * Fixed sulogin check on tty arg.
 342   * Use strerror() instead of sys_errlist
 343   * wall now supports a '-n' option to suppress [most of] the banner.
 344     Debian doesn't use sysvinit's wall, but apparently Redhat does.
 345   * Add '-F' (forcefsck) option to shutdown
 346   * Close and reopen /dev/initctl on SIGUSR1 (mainly for a /dev in ram)
 347
 348  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sat,  3 Jan 1998 16:32:39 +0100
 349
 350 sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
 351
 352   * Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
 353
 354  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:00 +0200
 355
 356 sysvinit (2.72) unstable; urgency=low
 357
 358   * Applied manual page patches by Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>.  Thanks Bill!
 359   * Applied patches to the sample Slackware scripts by
 360     "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
 361   * Fix halt and reboot runlevels 0 & 6 check.
 362   * Only say "no more processes left in runlevel x" once
 363   * Fix race condition with SIGCHLD in spawn()
 364     (thanks to Alon Ziv <alonz@CS.Technion.AC.IL>)
 365   * Compress all manpages (missed 2)
 366   * Compiled for libc6
 367   * Added poweroff patch by Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>
 368
 369  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:20:17 +0200
 370
 371 sysvinit (2.71-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
 372
 373   * Print 2.71 instead of 2.70 on startup :)
 374
 375  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Mon, 5 May 1997 12:45:25 +0200
 376
 377 sysvinit (2.71-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 378
 379   * Added code for updwtmp() in utmp.c for glibc (2.0.3)
 380   * Fixed all programs to use functions from utmp.c and getutent()
 381   * Do not try to clean up utmp in init itself (Bug#9022)
 382   * Removed sync() from main loop.
 383   * Hopefully fixes bug #8657 (shutdown signal handling)
 384
 385  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:27 +0200
 386
 387 sysvinit (2.70-1) unstable; urgency=low
 388
 389   * Respawn fix
 390   * Removed StUdLy CaPs from source code
 391   * Moved files in source archive around
 392   * Fixes for glibc (utmp handling, signal handling).
 393   * Fixed '-d' option to last (now also works without '-a').
 394   * Added extra checking in last.c to prevent showing dead entries
 395
 396  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:31:30 +0100
 397
 398 sysvinit (2.69-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
 399
 400   * Fixed bug that can throw X in a loop (or any other app that reads from
 401     /dev/tty0)
 402
 403  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:32:24 +0100
 404
 405 sysvinit (2.67-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 406
 407   * Fixes problem with /dev/console being controlling terminal of some
 408     daemons
 409   * Puts copyright file in the right place
 410
 411  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:23:33 +0100
 412
 413 sysvinit (2.66-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 414
 415   * Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
 416     being used..
 417   * Also compiles and runs with GNU libc (and on the Alpha)
 418   * Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
 419   * Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
 420   * Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
 421   * Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait
 422     This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
 423   * Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
 424     /var/log and /etc itself.
 425
 426  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:46:54 +0100
 427
 428 2.66    29-Oct-1996
 429 - Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
 430   being used..
 431 - Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
 432 - Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
 433 - Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
 434 - Ported to Linux/Alpha and GNU libc.
 435 - Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait.
 436   This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
 437 - Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
 438   /var/log and /etc itself.
 439
 440 2.64    28-Jun-1996
 441 - Init checks CONSOLE environment variable on startup (overrides /dev/console)
 442 - Init sets CONSOLE variable for all its children.
 443 - Wtmp(): when zeroing out old utmp entries, keep ut_id field
 444 - Wtmp(): try to re-use ut_id field if possible.
 445 - SetTerm(): only read from /etc/ioctl.save if written once.
 446 - Included start-stop-daemon, C version (source only).
 447 - Fixed wait() for the emergency shell.
 448 - killall5: ignore signal before doing kill(-1, pid).
 449
 450 2.63    14-Jun-1996
 451 - Fixed preinst script for Debian
 452 - Fixed init.c to become init daemon if name is init.new
 453 - Fixed pidof to not return PIDs of shell scripts
 454
 455 2.62-2  09-Jun-1996
 456 - Changed debian /etc/init.d/boot script to create a nologin file
 457   at boot and to remove it just before going multiuser.
 458
 459 2.62    31-May-1996
 460 - Decided to release a 2.62 version with a BIG WARNING about upgrading
 461   init in it. Will send a patch to Linus for the linux/Documentation/Changes
 462   file so that 2.62 or later is mentioned as the version to upgrade to.
 463 - Added docs for Slackware
 464
 465 2.61-3  29-May-1996
 466 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/network for the lo device.
 467 - Added "-xdev" to the cd /tmp && find in debian/etc/init.d/boot
 468 - Made remove time for files in /tmp configurable.
 469
 470 2.61    29-Apr-1996
 471 - Changed /etc/init.d/boot script again
 472 - Fixed problem in init.c with trailing whitespace after entries in inittab
 473 - Fixed killall5 problems
 474 - Added manpage for lastb
 475 - Added SHELL= environment variable to sulogin
 476 - Fixed sulogin & shadow problems
 477 - Added timeout option to sulogin
 478
 479 2.60-2  16-Apr-1996
 480 - Fixed sulogin (didn't work if root wasn't first entry in shadow file)
 481 - Fixed mesg for systems with "tty" group (such as Debian)
 482 - Fixed nsyslog() in killall5.c
 483
 484 2.60   01-Apr-1996
 485 - Fixed race condition in init.c, resulting in hanging shutdowns.
 486   Courtesy of Max Neunhoeffer <Max.Neunhoeffer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.
 487 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/boot for swapon and mdadd
 488 - Added architecture to debian.control
 489 - Added manpages for rc.boot and rc.local
 490 - Updated inittab manpage for 4-character runlevel field
 491 - Added debian replaces for bsdutils < version_without_mesg
 492 - Fixed init.c so that it also works with kernels 1.3.81 and up
 493
 494 2.59   10-Mar-1996
 495 - Init logs less to syslog (suspected to hang in syslog() or openlog() )
 496 - removed closelog() from init.c
 497 - removed time check of runlevel record in halt.
 498 - Added options to last to get hostname from ut_addr field
 499 - Added last and mesg to installation targets
 500 - rewrote /etc/init.d/boot a bit.
 501
 502 2.58-2 04-Jan-1996
 503 - Changed etc/init.d/rc to do a stty onlcr
 504 - Added /var/log/initrunlvl symlink
 505
 506 2.58-1 31-Dec-1995
 507 - Added the latest debian files.
 508 - Added support for 4-character id fields (if you have libc5).
 509 - Fixed pidof (in killall5) parsing of /proc/.../stat
 510 - Save restore GMT setting in /etc/init.d/boot
 511
 512 2.57d 03-Dec-1995
 513 - Added sulogin
 514 - Added "-b" flag to init, gives a shell before
 515   anything else (in case the startup scripts are screwed)
 516 - Moved fastboot to /fastboot
 517 - Folded in Debian patches.
 518 - Removed old scripts
 519 - Added debian /etc/directory.
 520
 521 2.57c 08-Oct-1995
 522 - Changed over to init_request (with initreq.h)
 523 - Processes no longer killed when "process" field
 524   changes, change takes effect after next respawn.
 525
 526 2.57b xx-Aug-1995
 527 - Bugfix release for Debian and Slackware 3.0
 528
 529 2.57a 10-Jul-1995
 530 - Fixed race condition init init.c wrt got_chld
 531 - Fixed one-off for malloc in killall5.c
 532 - Changed dowall.c
 533 - Console code: no relink to /dev/systty on CTRL-ALT-DEL)
 534
 535 2.57 22-May-1995
 536 - Changed a few things here and there, didn't
 537                   really document it :)
 538
 539 2.55 17-Jan-1995
 540 - Added option to shutdown to run standalone.
 541
 542 2.54 12-Jan-1995
 543 - Added GNU copyrigh to all *.[ch] files.
 544 - added /etc/initscript
 545 - reboot and halt now call shutdown in runlevels 1-5
 546 - Can run from read-only root (CDROM)
 547
 548 2.53 10-Oct-1994
 549 - Renamed pidof to killall5, updated all scripts to
 550   use killall5 instead of kill -1 ....
 551 - Rewrote scripts to use this, and some general changes.
 552 - Added SysV command line compatibility to shutdown.
 553
 554 2.52 30-Aug-1994
 555 - Added `powerfailnow' keyword, for when UPS battery is low.
 556 - Updated `last'.
 557 - Fixed utmp handling (wrt. CLEAN_UTMP)
 558 TODO:
 559 * Make last compatible with GNU/BSD (long options?)
 560 * update powerd
 561 * remote SIGPWR broadcast? in powerd? (with priv. port)
 562 * remote shutdown
 563
 564 2.50  14-Feb-1994
 565 - Ignores unknown command line arguments.
 566 - Modelled more after the "real" sysVinit
 567 - Lots of changes all over the place.
 568   (like showing runlevel in "ps" listing, logging
 569    runlevel into utmp file etc)
 570 - now using "reliable" signals instead of V7 style.
 571 - Updated all scripts. Examples are in two directories:
 572   etc (normal) and etc-sysv (sysv style scripts).
 573 - runlevel 0 = halt, 1 = single user, 6 = reboot.
 574 - added support for serial console.
 575 - updated Propaganda, manpages.
 576 - added shutdown access control.
 577
 578 2.4  24-May-93
 579 - Send out the official version into the world as
 580   SysVinit-2.4.tar.z.
 581
 582 2.4g 15-May-93
 583 - Changed init to really catch SIGPWR 'cause we
 584   hooked up an UPS to the Linux machine. The
 585   keyword for catching the TreeFingerSalute is
 586   now "ctrlaltdel" instead of "power{wait,fail}".
 587
 588 2.4a 22-Apr-93
 589 - Fixed last to reckognize BSD style wtmp logging.
 590 - Changed init to write wtmp records that are
 591   SysV compliant but are also reckognized by the
 592   BSD last. Added a '+' option to the 'process'
 593   field of inittab, for getties that want to do
 594   their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping (kludge!).
 595 - Now accepts a runlevel on the command line,
 596   and reckognizes the 'auto' argument. (Sets the
 597   environment variable AUTOBOOT to YES)
 598
 599 2.2.3 24-Mar-93
 600 - Ripped out the 'leave' action. To difficult, and
 601   unneeded.
 602 - Going single user now kills _all_ processes.
 603 - Added '-t secs' option to all commands.
 604 - This version is stable enough to post.
 605
 606 2.2 02-Mar-93
 607 - Made wait()'s asynchronous
 608 - Changed whole thing to one big state machine
 609 - Now using 'pseudo levels' # & * for SYSINIT & BOOT
 610 - Added a new type of 'action', called leave. This
 611   process will be executed when the system goes from a
 612   runlevel specified in it's runlevel field to a
 613   level that's not. Nice to bring down NFS and the like.
 614
 615 2.1 28-Jan-93
 616 - Fixed a bug with 'boot' and 'once'.
 617 - Check 'initdefault' for validity.
 618 - Reckognizes "single" as command line argument.
 619 - Retries execvp with 'sh -c exec ..' if command
 620   is a shell script. (shouldn't execvp do this?)
 621 - Added patches to use syslog if defined.
 622
 623 2.0 08-Dec-92
 624 - Rewrote the code totally, so started with a new
 625   version number.
 626 - Dropped Minix support, this code now is Linux - specific.
 627 - With TEST switch on, this init & telinit can
 628   run standalone for test purposes.
 629
 630 1.3, 05-Jul-92
 631 - Got a 386, so installed Linux. Added 'soft' reboot
 632   to be default under linux. Fixed some typos.
 633
 634 1.2, 16-Jun-92
 635 - Bugreport from Michael Haardt ; removed deadlock
 636   and added 'waitpid' instead of 'wait' for SYSV.
 637
 638 1.1, 30-Apr-92
 639 - Read manual wrong: there is no 'action' field called
 640   process, but all entries are of type process. Every
 641   'process' get exec'ed by /bin/sh -c 'exec command'.
 642 - Rapidly respawning processes are caught in the act.
 643 - _SYSV support is really Linux support,
 644   done by poe@daimi.aau.dk on 25-Mar-92.
 645
 646  1.0, 01-Feb-92
 647 - Initial version, very primitive for the Minix
 648   operating system. Required some mods. to the
 649   kernel.
 650