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   1 sysvinit (2.89dsf) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   2
   3   [ Werner Fink ]
   4   * Correct fix for Debian bug #547073: use IUTF8 flag if defined
   5     and if already set to make sure the utf-8 flag is not cleared
   6     from the tty. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
   7   * Include limits.h in killall.c to enforce definition of PATH_MAX
   8   * Fix sysvinit bug #29758 Linker invocation should not contain
   9     headers. Change based on patch from Elias Pipping.
  10   * Add fix for Debian bug #580272: use return value 1 of
  11     is_selinux_enabled() to determine if SELinux is enabled,
  12     otherwise initialize SELinux and load the policy. Patch from
  13     Petter Reinholdtsen.
  14   * Make quotes visible in example of the manual page of fstab-decode
  15
  16   [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
  17   * Next release will be 2.89dsf.
  18   * Add #ifdef in bootlogd.c to avoid gcc warnings about unused
  19     variable on non-linux platforms.
  20   * Only set the VSWTC field for termios in init if it is available,
  21     to get the source building on FreeBSD.
  22
  23  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>  Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010
  24
  25 sysvinit (2.88dsf) world; urgency=low
  26
  27   [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
  28   * Mention new home on Savannah in README.
  29   * Revert change from Fedora/RedHat where the now obsolete command
  30     INIT_CMD_CHANGECONS was introduced.  Based on feedback and patch
  31     from Bill Nottingham.
  32   * Adjust makefile to make sure the install directories are created
  33     before files are copied into them.
  34   * Simplify build rules, based on patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
  35   * Fix minor bug in optimizing of argument parsing.  Based on
  36     report from jakemus on freshmeat.
  37   * Add casts to get rid of compiler warning about signed/unsigned issues.
  38   * Change tty handling in init to make sure the UTF-8 flag is not cleared
  39     on boot.  Patch from Samuel Thibault.
  40   * Add Makefile in toplevel directory.
  41   * Print usage information when shutdown is used by non-root user.
  42     Patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
  43   * Sync shutdown manual page and usage information.  Patch from Mike
  44     Frysinger and Gentoo.
  45   * Fix race condition in utmp writing.  Patch from Gil Kloepfer via
  46     Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
  47   * Rewrite findtty() in bootlogd to recursively search /dev/ for the
  48     correct device, to handle terminal devices for example in /dev/pty/.
  49     Patch from Debian.
  50   * Make sure bootlogd findpty() returns an error value when it fails to
  51     find a usable pty.  Patch from Rob Leslie via Debian.
  52   * Make sure bootlogd fflush() every line, even if asked not to flush
  53     to disk using fdatasync().  Patch from Scott Gifford via Debian.
  54   * Add compatibility code to handle old path "/etc/powerstatus" for a
  55     while.
  56   * Incude definition for MNT_DETACH which is missing in older GNU libc
  57     headers.
  58   * Do not strip binaries before installing them, to make it easier to
  59     get binaries with debug information installed.
  60
  61   [ Werner Fink ]
  62   * Add the comment from Andrea Arcangeli about the correct
  63     place of setting the default childhandler within spawn().
  64   * Make sure that newline is printed out for last(1) even
  65     if an utmp record entry is truncated.
  66   * Check if utmp not only exists but also is writable and delay
  67     writing out of the utmp runlevel record if utmp is not writable.
  68   * Be able to find libcrypt also on 64 bit based architectures.
  69   * Add option -w to the last command to display the full user and
  70     domain names in the output.  Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
  71   * Add a manual page for utmpdump as this tool is sometimes
  72     very useful even if not intended for normal use.
  73   * Use paths.h macros for wall
  74   * Change path "/etc/powerstatus" to "/var/run/powerstatus"
  75   * Detected also removable block devices at halt/reboot to be able
  76     to flush data and send them the ATA standby command.  This should
  77     avoid data loss on USB sticks and other removable block devices.
  78   * Flush block devices on halt/reboot if not done by the kernel.
  79   * Set SHELL to /bin/sh in the environmant of shutdown.
  80   * Retry to write out shutdown messages if interrupted.
  81   * pidof/killall5 - make omit pid list a dynamic one.
  82   * pidof - provide '-n' to skip stat(2) syscall on network based FS.
  83   * init - avoid compiler warnings
  84   * init - initialize console by using the macros from ttydefaults.h
  85   * init - add the possiblity to ignore further interrupts from keyboard
  86   * init - add the possiblity to set sane terminal line settings
  87   * sulogin - add the possibility to reset the terminal io
  88   * Fix some minor problems
  89   * init - enable is_selinux_enabled() to detect selinuxfs
  90   * Add fix for Debian bug #536574 -- Can be enabled by -DACCTON_OFF
  91   * Add helper program fstab-decode to make it easier to handle
  92     /etc/mtab content. Patch by Miloslav Trmac and Fedora.
  93   * Add fix for Debian bug #335023 - Make sure TERM is set on FreeBSD.
  94   * Add fix for Debian bug #374038 - Make it clear that shutdown -c can
  95     only cancel a waiting shutdown, not an active one.
  96   * Add note to pidof manual page about the use of readlink(2). Patch by
  97     Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
  98   * Add PAM patch contrib/notify-pam-dead.patch based on Debian bug
  99     #68621, which will add PAM support for programs spawned by init on
 100     the console like sulogin. Based on patch by Topi Miettinen.  This
 101     patch is not applied by default yet while we review its
 102     usefullness.  It is only helpful for session handling, as sulogin
 103     do not use and will not use a PAM conv() function.  The current
 104     sulogin is able to handle DES as well as MD5, SHA, and Blowfish
 105     encrypted passwords due using getpwnam(3).
 106   * Move utmp/wtmp before the execvp() in spawn() to be sure to
 107     use the correct pid even on a controlling tty
 108   * Remaining problem is that the pid of the second fork() for
 109     getting a controlling tty isn't that reported by spawn()
 110   * Re-enable writting utmp/wtmp for boot scripts
 111   * Extend sulogin to support additional encryption algorithms
 112   * Re-enable maintenance message of sulogin
 113   * Enable the sulogin fallback password check to handle  MD5, SHA, and
 114     Blowfish encrypted passwords in case of getpwnam(3) fails.
 115   * sulogin picking the SELinux context was broken. Patch by Daniel Walsh
 116
 117  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>  Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010
 118
 119 sysvinit (2.87dsf) world; urgency=low
 120
 121   * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
 122   * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
 123   * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
 124   * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
 125   * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
 126     Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
 127   * Adjust output from "last -x".  In reboot lines, print endpoint
 128     of uptime too.  In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
 129     the time between downs.  Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
 130     Patch by Thomas Hood.
 131   * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last.  Patch from Fedora.
 132   * Document last options in usage information, previously only
 133     mentioned in the manual page.
 134   * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
 135     of the short form provided by default.  Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
 136     and SuSe.
 137   * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
 138     are stripped.
 139   * Increase the compiler warning level when building.
 140   * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms.  Patch by Bill
 141     Nottingham and Fedora.
 142   * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
 143     Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
 144   * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
 145     the new process.  Patch from RedHat.
 146   * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
 147     re-exec.  Patch from RedHat.
 148   * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
 149     boot.  Patch from SuSe.
 150   * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6.  Patch from Thomas Hood.
 151   * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink.  Patch from
 152     Thomas Hood.
 153   * Improve error message from init if fork() fail.  Patch found in Suse.
 154   * Add support for SE Linux capability handling.  Patch from Manoj
 155     Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
 156     the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
 157   * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
 158     process root.  Ignore -c when not running as root.  Patch from
 159     Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
 160   * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
 161     process name can be one character longer.  Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
 162   * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
 163     the child successfully.
 164   * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
 165     fdatasync().  Patch from Thomas Hood.
 166   * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
 167     not exist.  Patch from Thomas Hood.
 168   * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA.  Patch
 169     from Thomas Hood.
 170   * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
 171     value is usable on re-exec.  Patch from Thomas Hood.
 172   * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
 173     to reschedule.  Patch from SuSe.
 174   * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
 175   * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
 176     and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option.  Patch from
 177     Samuel Thibault.
 178   * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
 179     Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
 180   * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly.  Patches
 181     from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
 182   * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
 183     string lengths.  Patch from SuSe.
 184   * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
 185   * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake.  Patch from SuSe.
 186   * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
 187     processes to kill.  Patch from Debian.
 188   * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
 189     some pids during shutdown.  Based on patch from Colin Watson and
 190     Ubuntu.
 191   * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages.  Patch from Debian.
 192   * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
 193     changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
 194     avoiding stat() when the value isn't used.  Also, lock process
 195     pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
 196     Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
 197     Modderman.
 198   * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
 199     and document this requirement in the manual page.
 200   * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
 201     Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
 202   * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
 203     shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.
 204
 205  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>  Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
 206
 207 sysvinit (2.86) cistron; urgency=low
 208
 209   * Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal
 210     linebuffer to process \r, \t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
 211   * Applied trivial OWL patches
 212   * Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
 213     (James Olin Oden <joden@malachi.lee.k12.nc.us>, redhat bug #97534)
 214   * Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
 215   * killall5 now skips kernel threads
 216   * Inittab entries with both 'S' and other runlevels were broken.
 217     Fix by Bryan Kadzban <bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
 218   * Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
 219   * You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in
 220     init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only
 221     variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
 222     16 variables. There's also a length limit due to the size
 223     of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
 224   * Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and
 225     INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
 226   * Add "mountpoint" utility.
 227   * Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
 228   * Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t,
 229     sulogin-message, user-console)
 230
 231  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
 232
 233 sysvinit (2.85) cistron; urgency=low
 234
 235   * Add IPv6 support in last(1)
 236   * Sulogin: even if the root password is empty, ask for a password-
 237     otherwise there is no way to set a timeout.
 238   * Removed support for ioctl.save.
 239   * Turned of support for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/run/initrunlvl
 240   * Fixed warts in dowall.c ("Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>)
 241   * Fix init.c::spawn(). The "f" variable was used both as file descriptor
 242     and waitpid(2) return code.  In certain circumstances, this leads to
 243     TIOCSCTTY with wrong file descriptor (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
 244   * Fix fd leak in sulogin (Dmitry V. Levin).
 245   * More error checking in all wait() calling code (Dmitry V. Levin).
 246   * Fix argv[] initialization in spawn() (Dmitry V. Levin).
 247   * Change strncpy to strncat in most places (Dmitry V. Levin).
 248
 249  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:37:57 +0200
 250
 251 sysvinit (2.84) cistron; urgency=low
 252
 253   * Don't use /etc/initlvl interface for telinit; only use /dev/initctl,
 254     and give a clear error when that fails.
 255   * Add -i/--init command line flag to init - this tells init
 256     'behave as system init even if you're not PID#1'. Useful for
 257     testing in chroot/jail type environments.
 258
 259  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:10:08 +0100
 260
 261 sysvinit (2.83) cistron; urgency=low
 262
 263   * Fix bug in shutdown where it didn't check correctly for a
 264     virtual console when checking /etc/shutdown.allow
 265   * Fix race condition in waitpid() [Andrea Arcangeli]
 266   * Call closelog() after openlog()/syslog() since recent libc's
 267     keep the logging fd open and that is fd#0 aka stdin.
 268
 269  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  2 Oct 2001 23:27:06 +0200
 270
 271 sysvinit (2.82) cistron; urgency=low
 272
 273   * Print out correct version number at startup.
 274   * Fix spelling of initttab in init(8)
 275
 276  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:50:44 +0200
 277
 278 sysvinit (2.81) cistron; urgency=low
 279
 280   * Fix typo/bug in killall5/pidof, -o option failed to work since 2.79.
 281     Reformatted source code to prevent this from happening again.
 282   * shutdown.8: applied redhat manpage update
 283   * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sulogin-nologin.patch
 284   * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-notty.patch
 285   * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
 286
 287 sysvinit (2.80) cistron; urgency=low
 288
 289   * Grammar/spelling fixes in shutdown.c (Christian Steinrueck)
 290   * Don't set controlling tty for non-(sysinit,boot,single) runlevels
 291
 292  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:26:56 +0200
 293
 294 sysvinit (2.79) cistron; urgency=low
 295
 296   * New upstream version
 297   * several fixes to wall by Tim Robbins <fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org>
 298   * Several extra boundary checks by Solar Designer
 299   * Make /dev/console controlling tty
 300   * Stricter checks on ownership of tty by mesg(1)
 301   * Documented and restricted -n option to wall(1)
 302   * Make it compile with glibc 2.2.2
 303   * Document IO redirection in wall manpage (closes: #79491)
 304   * Update README (closes: #85650)
 305   * Fix init.8 manpage (closes:  #75268)
 306   * Fix typo in halt(8) manpage (closes:  #67875)
 307   * Check time argument of shutdown(8) for correctness (closes: #67825)
 308   * Check for stale sessions in last(1) (Chris Wolf <cwolf@starclass.com>)
 309
 310  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Wed,  4 Jul 2001 15:04:36 +0200
 311
 312 sysvinit (2.78-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 313
 314   * Change "booting" to "reloading" message at reload
 315   * Add "-z xxx" dummy command line argument (closes: #54717)
 316
 317  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:17:54 +0100
 318
 319 sysvinit (2.78-1) unstable; urgency=low
 320
 321   * 2.78 will be the new upstream version, I'm skipping 2.77
 322   * Shutdown now calls sync before switching the runlevel to 0 or 6,
 323     or before unmounting filesystems if -n was used (closes: #46461)
 324   * Some cosmetic changes to init.c (closes: #32079)
 325
 326  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:40:23 +0100
 327
 328 sysvinit (2.77-2) unstable; urgency=low
 329
 330   * Fix last -i option
 331
 332  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  5 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
 333
 334 sysvinit (2.77-1) unstable; urgency=low
 335
 336   * Write reboot record into utmp file as well to make rms happy
 337   * Fork and dump core in / if SIGSEGV is received for debugging purposes
 338   * Patch by Craig Sanders <cas@vicnet.net.au> for "last" -i option
 339
 340  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Wed,  4 Aug 1999 11:16:23 +0200
 341
 342 sysvinit (2.76-4) unstable; urgency=low
 343
 344   * Change dowall.c to handle Unix98 ptys correctly
 345   * Add comment in rcS about usage of setup.sh and unconfigured.sh
 346   * Shutdown now removes nologin file just before calling telinit
 347   * SEGV handler now tries to continue after sleep of 30 seconds.
 348     On a 386-class processor it also prints out the value of EIP.
 349   * Fix for racecondition in check_init_fifo() by Richard Gooch
 350
 351  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sat,  8 May 1999 17:22:57 +0200
 352
 353 sysvinit (2.76-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 354
 355   * Small bugfix to last.c courtesy of Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.ml.org>
 356
 357  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:44 +0100
 358
 359 sysvinit (2.76-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 360
 361   * Fix bug in check_pipe() which crashes init on the Alpha.
 362
 363  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  3 Nov 1998 11:09:13 +0100
 364
 365 sysvinit (2.75-4) unstable; urgency=low
 366
 367   * Change sulogin password buffer to 128 characters.
 368   * Don't print control characters in dowall.c
 369   * Try to open getenv ("CONSOLE"), /dev/console and /dev/tty0 in order.
 370     For backwards compatibility when you try to boot a 2.0.x kernel
 371     with a linux > 2.1.70 /dev/console device.
 372   * Change src/Makefile for non-debian systems (mainly, RedHat)
 373   * Try to create /dev/initctl if not present; check every time to see
 374     if the dev/ino of /dev/initctl has changed and re-open it. This should
 375     help devfs a bit.
 376   * Send SIGUSR1 to init at bootup to let it re-open /dev/initctl;
 377     again in support of devfs.
 378   * Moved pidof to /bin (it's only a link to killall5 anyway)
 379
 380  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Mon,  5 Oct 1998 14:03:14 +0200
 381
 382 sysvinit (2.75-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
 383
 384   * Fix last.c again.
 385   * Add check to see if /dev/initctl is really a FIFO
 386   * In ifdown.c first down all shaper devices then the real devices
 387
 388  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200
 389
 390 sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
 391
 392   * Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
 393     thanks to Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> and
 394     David Parrish <dparrish@zeta.org.au>
 395   * Fixes bugs:
 396     #21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
 397     #21765: sysvinit: Typo in `killall5.c'
 398     #21775: sysvinit: sysvinit does not support MD5 hashed passwords
 399     #21990: /usr/bin/last: unnecessary memset and off-by-one bug
 400     #22084: sysvinit 2.74-4: SIGPWR missing on sparc
 401     #21900: init, powerfail events, and shutdown.allow
 402     #21702: init 0 does not work as expected...
 403     #21728: sysvinit: Typo in `init.c'
 404     #22363: sysvinit: discrepance btw. manpage and /sbin/init
 405
 406  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29 +0200
 407
 408 sysvinit (2.74-4) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
 409
 410   * Add -o option to last to process libc5 utmp files.
 411   * Buffer overflow fixed in init.c (not very serious; only exploitable
 412     by root). Thanks to Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
 413
 414  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:04:33 +0200
 415
 416 sysvinit (2.74-1) unstable; urgency=low
 417
 418   * Should compile with glibc 1.99 :)
 419   * Change behaviour of reboot(1) and halt(1) so that the default when
 420     the runlevel can't be determined is to call shutdown.
 421   * Added re-exec patch from Al Viro (21 Feb 1998):
 422         'U' flag added to telinit. It forces init to re-exec itself
 423         (passing its state through exec, certainly).
 424         May be useful for smoother (heh) upgrades.
 425         24 Feb 1998, AV:
 426         did_boot made global and added to state - thanks, Miquel.
 427         Yet another file descriptors leak - close state pipe if
 428         re_exec fails.
 429
 430  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:42:46 +0100
 431
 432 sysvinit (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low
 433
 434   * Change _NSIG to NSIG for 2.1.x kernel includes.
 435
 436  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu,  8 Jan 1998 16:01:02 +0100
 437
 438 sysvinit (2.73-1) unstable; urgency=low
 439
 440   * Use siginterrupt, now that system calls are restarted by default.
 441     Main symptom was that the sulogin timeout didn't work but there
 442     might have been more hidden problems.
 443   * Kill process immidiately if turned off in inittab
 444   * Fixed sulogin check on tty arg.
 445   * Use strerror() instead of sys_errlist
 446   * wall now supports a '-n' option to suppress [most of] the banner.
 447     Debian doesn't use sysvinit's wall, but apparently Redhat does.
 448   * Add '-F' (forcefsck) option to shutdown
 449   * Close and reopen /dev/initctl on SIGUSR1 (mainly for a /dev in ram)
 450
 451  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sat,  3 Jan 1998 16:32:39 +0100
 452
 453 sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
 454
 455   * Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
 456
 457  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:00 +0200
 458
 459 sysvinit (2.72) unstable; urgency=low
 460
 461   * Applied manual page patches by Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>.  Thanks Bill!
 462   * Applied patches to the sample Slackware scripts by
 463     "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
 464   * Fix halt and reboot runlevels 0 & 6 check.
 465   * Only say "no more processes left in runlevel x" once
 466   * Fix race condition with SIGCHLD in spawn()
 467     (thanks to Alon Ziv <alonz@CS.Technion.AC.IL>)
 468   * Compress all manpages (missed 2)
 469   * Compiled for libc6
 470   * Added poweroff patch by Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>
 471
 472  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:20:17 +0200
 473
 474 sysvinit (2.71-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
 475
 476   * Print 2.71 instead of 2.70 on startup :)
 477
 478  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Mon, 5 May 1997 12:45:25 +0200
 479
 480 sysvinit (2.71-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 481
 482   * Added code for updwtmp() in utmp.c for glibc (2.0.3)
 483   * Fixed all programs to use functions from utmp.c and getutent()
 484   * Do not try to clean up utmp in init itself (Bug#9022)
 485   * Removed sync() from main loop.
 486   * Hopefully fixes bug #8657 (shutdown signal handling)
 487
 488  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:27 +0200
 489
 490 sysvinit (2.70-1) unstable; urgency=low
 491
 492   * Respawn fix
 493   * Removed StUdLy CaPs from source code
 494   * Moved files in source archive around
 495   * Fixes for glibc (utmp handling, signal handling).
 496   * Fixed '-d' option to last (now also works without '-a').
 497   * Added extra checking in last.c to prevent showing dead entries
 498
 499  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:31:30 +0100
 500
 501 sysvinit (2.69-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
 502
 503   * Fixed bug that can throw X in a loop (or any other app that reads from
 504     /dev/tty0)
 505
 506  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:32:24 +0100
 507
 508 sysvinit (2.67-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 509
 510   * Fixes problem with /dev/console being controlling terminal of some
 511     daemons
 512   * Puts copyright file in the right place
 513
 514  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:23:33 +0100
 515
 516 sysvinit (2.66-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 517
 518   * Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
 519     being used..
 520   * Also compiles and runs with GNU libc (and on the Alpha)
 521   * Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
 522   * Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
 523   * Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
 524   * Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait
 525     This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
 526   * Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
 527     /var/log and /etc itself.
 528
 529  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:46:54 +0100
 530
 531 2.66    29-Oct-1996
 532 - Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
 533   being used..
 534 - Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
 535 - Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
 536 - Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
 537 - Ported to Linux/Alpha and GNU libc.
 538 - Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait.
 539   This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
 540 - Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
 541   /var/log and /etc itself.
 542
 543 2.64    28-Jun-1996
 544 - Init checks CONSOLE environment variable on startup (overrides /dev/console)
 545 - Init sets CONSOLE variable for all its children.
 546 - Wtmp(): when zeroing out old utmp entries, keep ut_id field
 547 - Wtmp(): try to re-use ut_id field if possible.
 548 - SetTerm(): only read from /etc/ioctl.save if written once.
 549 - Included start-stop-daemon, C version (source only).
 550 - Fixed wait() for the emergency shell.
 551 - killall5: ignore signal before doing kill(-1, pid).
 552
 553 2.63    14-Jun-1996
 554 - Fixed preinst script for Debian
 555 - Fixed init.c to become init daemon if name is init.new
 556 - Fixed pidof to not return PIDs of shell scripts
 557
 558 2.62-2  09-Jun-1996
 559 - Changed debian /etc/init.d/boot script to create a nologin file
 560   at boot and to remove it just before going multiuser.
 561
 562 2.62    31-May-1996
 563 - Decided to release a 2.62 version with a BIG WARNING about upgrading
 564   init in it. Will send a patch to Linus for the linux/Documentation/Changes
 565   file so that 2.62 or later is mentioned as the version to upgrade to.
 566 - Added docs for Slackware
 567
 568 2.61-3  29-May-1996
 569 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/network for the lo device.
 570 - Added "-xdev" to the cd /tmp && find in debian/etc/init.d/boot
 571 - Made remove time for files in /tmp configurable.
 572
 573 2.61    29-Apr-1996
 574 - Changed /etc/init.d/boot script again
 575 - Fixed problem in init.c with trailing whitespace after entries in inittab
 576 - Fixed killall5 problems
 577 - Added manpage for lastb
 578 - Added SHELL= environment variable to sulogin
 579 - Fixed sulogin & shadow problems
 580 - Added timeout option to sulogin
 581
 582 2.60-2  16-Apr-1996
 583 - Fixed sulogin (didn't work if root wasn't first entry in shadow file)
 584 - Fixed mesg for systems with "tty" group (such as Debian)
 585 - Fixed nsyslog() in killall5.c
 586
 587 2.60   01-Apr-1996
 588 - Fixed race condition in init.c, resulting in hanging shutdowns.
 589   Courtesy of Max Neunhoeffer <Max.Neunhoeffer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.
 590 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/boot for swapon and mdadd
 591 - Added architecture to debian.control
 592 - Added manpages for rc.boot and rc.local
 593 - Updated inittab manpage for 4-character runlevel field
 594 - Added debian replaces for bsdutils < version_without_mesg
 595 - Fixed init.c so that it also works with kernels 1.3.81 and up
 596
 597 2.59   10-Mar-1996
 598 - Init logs less to syslog (suspected to hang in syslog() or openlog() )
 599 - removed closelog() from init.c
 600 - removed time check of runlevel record in halt.
 601 - Added options to last to get hostname from ut_addr field
 602 - Added last and mesg to installation targets
 603 - rewrote /etc/init.d/boot a bit.
 604
 605 2.58-2 04-Jan-1996
 606 - Changed etc/init.d/rc to do a stty onlcr
 607 - Added /var/log/initrunlvl symlink
 608
 609 2.58-1 31-Dec-1995
 610 - Added the latest debian files.
 611 - Added support for 4-character id fields (if you have libc5).
 612 - Fixed pidof (in killall5) parsing of /proc/.../stat
 613 - Save restore GMT setting in /etc/init.d/boot
 614
 615 2.57d 03-Dec-1995
 616 - Added sulogin
 617 - Added "-b" flag to init, gives a shell before
 618   anything else (in case the startup scripts are screwed)
 619 - Moved fastboot to /fastboot
 620 - Folded in Debian patches.
 621 - Removed old scripts
 622 - Added debian /etc/directory.
 623
 624 2.57c 08-Oct-1995
 625 - Changed over to init_request (with initreq.h)
 626 - Processes no longer killed when "process" field
 627   changes, change takes effect after next respawn.
 628
 629 2.57b xx-Aug-1995
 630 - Bugfix release for Debian and Slackware 3.0
 631
 632 2.57a 10-Jul-1995
 633 - Fixed race condition init init.c wrt got_chld
 634 - Fixed one-off for malloc in killall5.c
 635 - Changed dowall.c
 636 - Console code: no relink to /dev/systty on CTRL-ALT-DEL)
 637
 638 2.57 22-May-1995
 639 - Changed a few things here and there, didn't
 640                   really document it :)
 641
 642 2.55 17-Jan-1995
 643 - Added option to shutdown to run standalone.
 644
 645 2.54 12-Jan-1995
 646 - Added GNU copyrigh to all *.[ch] files.
 647 - added /etc/initscript
 648 - reboot and halt now call shutdown in runlevels 1-5
 649 - Can run from read-only root (CDROM)
 650
 651 2.53 10-Oct-1994
 652 - Renamed pidof to killall5, updated all scripts to
 653   use killall5 instead of kill -1 ....
 654 - Rewrote scripts to use this, and some general changes.
 655 - Added SysV command line compatibility to shutdown.
 656
 657 2.52 30-Aug-1994
 658 - Added `powerfailnow' keyword, for when UPS battery is low.
 659 - Updated `last'.
 660 - Fixed utmp handling (wrt. CLEAN_UTMP)
 661 TODO:
 662 * Make last compatible with GNU/BSD (long options?)
 663 * update powerd
 664 * remote SIGPWR broadcast? in powerd? (with priv. port)
 665 * remote shutdown
 666
 667 2.50  14-Feb-1994
 668 - Ignores unknown command line arguments.
 669 - Modelled more after the "real" sysVinit
 670 - Lots of changes all over the place.
 671   (like showing runlevel in "ps" listing, logging
 672    runlevel into utmp file etc)
 673 - now using "reliable" signals instead of V7 style.
 674 - Updated all scripts. Examples are in two directories:
 675   etc (normal) and etc-sysv (sysv style scripts).
 676 - runlevel 0 = halt, 1 = single user, 6 = reboot.
 677 - added support for serial console.
 678 - updated Propaganda, manpages.
 679 - added shutdown access control.
 680
 681 2.4  24-May-93
 682 - Send out the official version into the world as
 683   SysVinit-2.4.tar.z.
 684
 685 2.4g 15-May-93
 686 - Changed init to really catch SIGPWR 'cause we
 687   hooked up an UPS to the Linux machine. The
 688   keyword for catching the TreeFingerSalute is
 689   now "ctrlaltdel" instead of "power{wait,fail}".
 690
 691 2.4a 22-Apr-93
 692 - Fixed last to reckognize BSD style wtmp logging.
 693 - Changed init to write wtmp records that are
 694   SysV compliant but are also reckognized by the
 695   BSD last. Added a '+' option to the 'process'
 696   field of inittab, for getties that want to do
 697   their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping (kludge!).
 698 - Now accepts a runlevel on the command line,
 699   and reckognizes the 'auto' argument. (Sets the
 700   environment variable AUTOBOOT to YES)
 701
 702 2.2.3 24-Mar-93
 703 - Ripped out the 'leave' action. To difficult, and
 704   unneeded.
 705 - Going single user now kills _all_ processes.
 706 - Added '-t secs' option to all commands.
 707 - This version is stable enough to post.
 708
 709 2.2 02-Mar-93
 710 - Made wait()'s asynchronous
 711 - Changed whole thing to one big state machine
 712 - Now using 'pseudo levels' # & * for SYSINIT & BOOT
 713 - Added a new type of 'action', called leave. This
 714   process will be executed when the system goes from a
 715   runlevel specified in it's runlevel field to a
 716   level that's not. Nice to bring down NFS and the like.
 717
 718 2.1 28-Jan-93
 719 - Fixed a bug with 'boot' and 'once'.
 720 - Check 'initdefault' for validity.
 721 - Reckognizes "single" as command line argument.
 722 - Retries execvp with 'sh -c exec ..' if command
 723   is a shell script. (shouldn't execvp do this?)
 724 - Added patches to use syslog if defined.
 725
 726 2.0 08-Dec-92
 727 - Rewrote the code totally, so started with a new
 728   version number.
 729 - Dropped Minix support, this code now is Linux - specific.
 730 - With TEST switch on, this init & telinit can
 731   run standalone for test purposes.
 732
 733 1.3, 05-Jul-92
 734 - Got a 386, so installed Linux. Added 'soft' reboot
 735   to be default under linux. Fixed some typos.
 736
 737 1.2, 16-Jun-92
 738 - Bugreport from Michael Haardt ; removed deadlock
 739   and added 'waitpid' instead of 'wait' for SYSV.
 740
 741 1.1, 30-Apr-92
 742 - Read manual wrong: there is no 'action' field called
 743   process, but all entries are of type process. Every
 744   'process' get exec'ed by /bin/sh -c 'exec command'.
 745 - Rapidly respawning processes are caught in the act.
 746 - _SYSV support is really Linux support,
 747   done by poe@daimi.aau.dk on 25-Mar-92.
 748
 749  1.0, 01-Feb-92
 750 - Initial version, very primitive for the Minix
 751   operating system. Required some mods. to the
 752   kernel.
 753