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   1 sysvinit (2.89dsf) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   2
   3   [ Werner Fink ]
   4   * Do not forget room for last NULL of new environment (was
   5     local bug 35866)
   6   * Handle deleted binaries in pidof (was local bug #34992)
   7   * Allow init to delete extra environment variables (was local bug
   8     #35858)
   9   * Avoid that init double environment variables for its childs
  10     (was local bug #35855)
  11   * Remove man-db tag for encoding for canonical man
  12   * Sulogin: try to detect the real device(s) used for the system console
  13     /dev/console if but only if /dev/console is used.  On Linux this can
  14     be more than one device, e.g. a serial line as well as a virtual
  15     console as well as a simple printer.
  16   * Fix counting message lines in wall. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
  17   * Fix bad printf conversion specifier in wall. Patch from Sébastien Luttringer.
  18   * Add patches from Openwall project. Thanks goes to Solar Designer.
  19   * Add code to detect the system consoles with the help of the
  20     new /proc/consoles files of linux kernel 2.6.38+
  21   * Try to make utmpdump IPv6 valid, change based on suggestion from
  22     Navdeep Bhatia (see local bug #32429)
  23   * Fix signal and alarm handling based on the patch from Florent Viard.
  24     (was local bug #32304)
  25   * Add fix for Redhat bug #573346: last incorrectly displays IPv6
  26     addresses (was local bug #29497)
  27   * Correct fix for Debian bug #547073: use IUTF8 flag if defined
  28     and if already set to make sure the utf-8 flag is not cleared
  29     from the tty. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
  30   * Include limits.h in killall.c to enforce definition of PATH_MAX
  31   * Fix sysvinit bug #29758 Linker invocation should not contain
  32     headers. Change based on patch from Elias Pipping.
  33   * Add fix for Debian bug #580272: use return value 1 of
  34     is_selinux_enabled() to determine if SELinux is enabled,
  35     otherwise initialize SELinux and load the policy. Patch from
  36     Petter Reinholdtsen.
  37   * Make quotes visible in example of the manual page of fstab-decode
  38   * Sulogin: enforce reconnection of stdin/stdout/stderr if a device
  39     was specified.
  40   * Sulogin: if zero is read at reading the passwd guess it's done.
  41   * Sulogin: respect byte order that is do not mix chars and ints
  42   * Shutdown: use PATH_DEFAULT as suggested by Paul Arthur in local bug #36101
  43   * Killall5/pidof: handle strange names of executables (local bug #36252)
  44   * Sulogin: be aware the crypt(3) may fail (local bug #36313)
  45
  46   [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
  47   * Next release will be 2.89dsf.
  48   * Add #ifdef in bootlogd.c to avoid gcc warnings about unused
  49     variable on non-linux platforms.
  50   * Only set the VSWTC field for termios in init if it is available,
  51     to get the source building on FreeBSD.
  52   * Add some code to be able to detect programs even as user with
  53     kernel 3.0 and above
  54   * Improve message printed when signaling processes to stop.
  55     Patch from Matias A. Fonzo at the dragora project.
  56   * Rename internal functions warn() and shutdown() in the shutdown
  57     binary to avoid surprising dynamic library name resolution
  58     conflict with NSS modules.  Patch from Richard Tollerton.
  59   * Try harder to find libcrypt.*, even if there is no static library
  60     available.  Also look in /usr/lib/*/ for the library, to handle
  61     Debian multiarch systems.  Based on patch from Andrew Gregory.
  62   * Adjust included headers to be compatible with the musl C
  63     library.  Patch from Matias A. Fonzo and Dragora.
  64   * Move dovoid() macro from #ifdef__GLIBC__ to #ifdef __linux__,
  65     to match the condutions of the place where it is used.  Thanks
  66     to Matias A. Fonzo for noticing.
  67   * Define _XOPEN_SOURCE when building to get crypt() from <unistd.h>
  68     instead of using <crypt.h> in sulogin.c, to get the source building
  69     with the musl C library.
  70   * Use sysconf(_SC_SYMLOOP_MAX) instead of MAXSYMLINKS.  If sysconf
  71     returns an error, fall back to MAXSYMLINKS on platforms that
  72     define it.  Fixes build on Hurd.  Patch from Justus Winter and
  73     Debian.
  74   * Adjust makefile to make it easier to link all binaries statically.
  75     Patch from Matias A. Fonzo and Dragora.
  76   * Rewrite findtty() in bootlogd.c to not chance working directory, to
  77     reduce the amount of failure that can happin in that function.
  78   * Adapt bootlogd TIOCCONS call to kfreebsd.  Patch from Mats Erik
  79     Andersson and Debian.
  80   * Document length limit for the process field in the inittab.  Patch
  81     from Johannes Truschnigg and Debian.
  82   * Fix typo in fstab-decode(8) font escape.  Patch from Bjarni Ingi
  83     Gislason and Debian.
  84   * Port ifdown.c to FreeBSD.  Patch from Guillem Jover and Debian.
  85
  86  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>  Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010
  87
  88 sysvinit (2.88dsf) world; urgency=low
  89
  90   [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
  91   * Mention new home on Savannah in README.
  92   * Revert change from Fedora/RedHat where the now obsolete command
  93     INIT_CMD_CHANGECONS was introduced.  Based on feedback and patch
  94     from Bill Nottingham.
  95   * Adjust makefile to make sure the install directories are created
  96     before files are copied into them.
  97   * Simplify build rules, based on patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
  98   * Fix minor bug in optimizing of argument parsing.  Based on
  99     report from jakemus on freshmeat.
 100   * Add casts to get rid of compiler warning about signed/unsigned issues.
 101   * Change tty handling in init to make sure the UTF-8 flag is not cleared
 102     on boot.  Patch from Samuel Thibault.
 103   * Add Makefile in toplevel directory.
 104   * Print usage information when shutdown is used by non-root user.
 105     Patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
 106   * Sync shutdown manual page and usage information.  Patch from Mike
 107     Frysinger and Gentoo.
 108   * Fix race condition in utmp writing.  Patch from Gil Kloepfer via
 109     Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
 110   * Rewrite findtty() in bootlogd to recursively search /dev/ for the
 111     correct device, to handle terminal devices for example in /dev/pty/.
 112     Patch from Debian.
 113   * Make sure bootlogd findpty() returns an error value when it fails to
 114     find a usable pty.  Patch from Rob Leslie via Debian.
 115   * Make sure bootlogd fflush() every line, even if asked not to flush
 116     to disk using fdatasync().  Patch from Scott Gifford via Debian.
 117   * Add compatibility code to handle old path "/etc/powerstatus" for a
 118     while.
 119   * Incude definition for MNT_DETACH which is missing in older GNU libc
 120     headers.
 121   * Do not strip binaries before installing them, to make it easier to
 122     get binaries with debug information installed.
 123
 124   [ Werner Fink ]
 125   * Add the comment from Andrea Arcangeli about the correct
 126     place of setting the default childhandler within spawn().
 127   * Make sure that newline is printed out for last(1) even
 128     if an utmp record entry is truncated.
 129   * Check if utmp not only exists but also is writable and delay
 130     writing out of the utmp runlevel record if utmp is not writable.
 131   * Be able to find libcrypt also on 64 bit based architectures.
 132   * Add option -w to the last command to display the full user and
 133     domain names in the output.  Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
 134   * Add a manual page for utmpdump as this tool is sometimes
 135     very useful even if not intended for normal use.
 136   * Use paths.h macros for wall
 137   * Change path "/etc/powerstatus" to "/var/run/powerstatus"
 138   * Detected also removable block devices at halt/reboot to be able
 139     to flush data and send them the ATA standby command.  This should
 140     avoid data loss on USB sticks and other removable block devices.
 141   * Flush block devices on halt/reboot if not done by the kernel.
 142   * Set SHELL to /bin/sh in the environmant of shutdown.
 143   * Retry to write out shutdown messages if interrupted.
 144   * pidof/killall5 - make omit pid list a dynamic one.
 145   * pidof - provide '-n' to skip stat(2) syscall on network based FS.
 146   * init - avoid compiler warnings
 147   * init - initialize console by using the macros from ttydefaults.h
 148   * init - add the possiblity to ignore further interrupts from keyboard
 149   * init - add the possiblity to set sane terminal line settings
 150   * sulogin - add the possibility to reset the terminal io
 151   * Fix some minor problems
 152   * init - enable is_selinux_enabled() to detect selinuxfs
 153   * Add fix for Debian bug #536574 -- Can be enabled by -DACCTON_OFF
 154   * Add helper program fstab-decode to make it easier to handle
 155     /etc/mtab content. Patch by Miloslav Trmac and Fedora.
 156   * Add fix for Debian bug #335023 - Make sure TERM is set on FreeBSD.
 157   * Add fix for Debian bug #374038 - Make it clear that shutdown -c can
 158     only cancel a waiting shutdown, not an active one.
 159   * Add note to pidof manual page about the use of readlink(2). Patch by
 160     Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
 161   * Add PAM patch contrib/notify-pam-dead.patch based on Debian bug
 162     #68621, which will add PAM support for programs spawned by init on
 163     the console like sulogin. Based on patch by Topi Miettinen.  This
 164     patch is not applied by default yet while we review its
 165     usefullness.  It is only helpful for session handling, as sulogin
 166     do not use and will not use a PAM conv() function.  The current
 167     sulogin is able to handle DES as well as MD5, SHA, and Blowfish
 168     encrypted passwords due using getpwnam(3).
 169   * Move utmp/wtmp before the execvp() in spawn() to be sure to
 170     use the correct pid even on a controlling tty
 171   * Remaining problem is that the pid of the second fork() for
 172     getting a controlling tty isn't that reported by spawn()
 173   * Re-enable writting utmp/wtmp for boot scripts
 174   * Extend sulogin to support additional encryption algorithms
 175   * Re-enable maintenance message of sulogin
 176   * Enable the sulogin fallback password check to handle  MD5, SHA, and
 177     Blowfish encrypted passwords in case of getpwnam(3) fails.
 178   * sulogin picking the SELinux context was broken. Patch by Daniel Walsh
 179
 180  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>  Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010
 181
 182 sysvinit (2.87dsf) world; urgency=low
 183
 184   * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
 185   * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
 186   * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
 187   * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
 188   * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
 189     Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
 190   * Adjust output from "last -x".  In reboot lines, print endpoint
 191     of uptime too.  In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
 192     the time between downs.  Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
 193     Patch by Thomas Hood.
 194   * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last.  Patch from Fedora.
 195   * Document last options in usage information, previously only
 196     mentioned in the manual page.
 197   * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
 198     of the short form provided by default.  Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
 199     and SuSe.
 200   * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
 201     are stripped.
 202   * Increase the compiler warning level when building.
 203   * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms.  Patch by Bill
 204     Nottingham and Fedora.
 205   * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
 206     Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
 207   * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
 208     the new process.  Patch from RedHat.
 209   * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
 210     re-exec.  Patch from RedHat.
 211   * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
 212     boot.  Patch from SuSe.
 213   * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6.  Patch from Thomas Hood.
 214   * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink.  Patch from
 215     Thomas Hood.
 216   * Improve error message from init if fork() fail.  Patch found in Suse.
 217   * Add support for SE Linux capability handling.  Patch from Manoj
 218     Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
 219     the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
 220   * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
 221     process root.  Ignore -c when not running as root.  Patch from
 222     Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
 223   * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
 224     process name can be one character longer.  Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
 225   * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
 226     the child successfully.
 227   * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
 228     fdatasync().  Patch from Thomas Hood.
 229   * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
 230     not exist.  Patch from Thomas Hood.
 231   * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA.  Patch
 232     from Thomas Hood.
 233   * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
 234     value is usable on re-exec.  Patch from Thomas Hood.
 235   * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
 236     to reschedule.  Patch from SuSe.
 237   * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
 238   * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
 239     and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option.  Patch from
 240     Samuel Thibault.
 241   * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
 242     Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
 243   * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly.  Patches
 244     from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
 245   * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
 246     string lengths.  Patch from SuSe.
 247   * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
 248   * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake.  Patch from SuSe.
 249   * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
 250     processes to kill.  Patch from Debian.
 251   * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
 252     some pids during shutdown.  Based on patch from Colin Watson and
 253     Ubuntu.
 254   * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages.  Patch from Debian.
 255   * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
 256     changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
 257     avoiding stat() when the value isn't used.  Also, lock process
 258     pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
 259     Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
 260     Modderman.
 261   * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
 262     and document this requirement in the manual page.
 263   * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
 264     Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
 265   * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
 266     shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.
 267
 268  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>  Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
 269
 270 sysvinit (2.86) cistron; urgency=low
 271
 272   * Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal
 273     linebuffer to process \r, \t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
 274   * Applied trivial OWL patches
 275   * Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
 276     (James Olin Oden <joden@malachi.lee.k12.nc.us>, redhat bug #97534)
 277   * Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
 278   * killall5 now skips kernel threads
 279   * Inittab entries with both 'S' and other runlevels were broken.
 280     Fix by Bryan Kadzban <bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
 281   * Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
 282   * You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in
 283     init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only
 284     variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
 285     16 variables. There's also a length limit due to the size
 286     of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
 287   * Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and
 288     INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
 289   * Add "mountpoint" utility.
 290   * Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
 291   * Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t,
 292     sulogin-message, user-console)
 293
 294  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
 295
 296 sysvinit (2.85) cistron; urgency=low
 297
 298   * Add IPv6 support in last(1)
 299   * Sulogin: even if the root password is empty, ask for a password-
 300     otherwise there is no way to set a timeout.
 301   * Removed support for ioctl.save.
 302   * Turned of support for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/run/initrunlvl
 303   * Fixed warts in dowall.c ("Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>)
 304   * Fix init.c::spawn(). The "f" variable was used both as file descriptor
 305     and waitpid(2) return code.  In certain circumstances, this leads to
 306     TIOCSCTTY with wrong file descriptor (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
 307   * Fix fd leak in sulogin (Dmitry V. Levin).
 308   * More error checking in all wait() calling code (Dmitry V. Levin).
 309   * Fix argv[] initialization in spawn() (Dmitry V. Levin).
 310   * Change strncpy to strncat in most places (Dmitry V. Levin).
 311
 312  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:37:57 +0200
 313
 314 sysvinit (2.84) cistron; urgency=low
 315
 316   * Don't use /etc/initlvl interface for telinit; only use /dev/initctl,
 317     and give a clear error when that fails.
 318   * Add -i/--init command line flag to init - this tells init
 319     'behave as system init even if you're not PID#1'. Useful for
 320     testing in chroot/jail type environments.
 321
 322  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:10:08 +0100
 323
 324 sysvinit (2.83) cistron; urgency=low
 325
 326   * Fix bug in shutdown where it didn't check correctly for a
 327     virtual console when checking /etc/shutdown.allow
 328   * Fix race condition in waitpid() [Andrea Arcangeli]
 329   * Call closelog() after openlog()/syslog() since recent libc's
 330     keep the logging fd open and that is fd#0 aka stdin.
 331
 332  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  2 Oct 2001 23:27:06 +0200
 333
 334 sysvinit (2.82) cistron; urgency=low
 335
 336   * Print out correct version number at startup.
 337   * Fix spelling of initttab in init(8)
 338
 339  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:50:44 +0200
 340
 341 sysvinit (2.81) cistron; urgency=low
 342
 343   * Fix typo/bug in killall5/pidof, -o option failed to work since 2.79.
 344     Reformatted source code to prevent this from happening again.
 345   * shutdown.8: applied redhat manpage update
 346   * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sulogin-nologin.patch
 347   * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-notty.patch
 348   * sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
 349
 350 sysvinit (2.80) cistron; urgency=low
 351
 352   * Grammar/spelling fixes in shutdown.c (Christian Steinrueck)
 353   * Don't set controlling tty for non-(sysinit,boot,single) runlevels
 354
 355  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:26:56 +0200
 356
 357 sysvinit (2.79) cistron; urgency=low
 358
 359   * New upstream version
 360   * several fixes to wall by Tim Robbins <fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org>
 361   * Several extra boundary checks by Solar Designer
 362   * Make /dev/console controlling tty
 363   * Stricter checks on ownership of tty by mesg(1)
 364   * Documented and restricted -n option to wall(1)
 365   * Make it compile with glibc 2.2.2
 366   * Document IO redirection in wall manpage (closes: #79491)
 367   * Update README (closes: #85650)
 368   * Fix init.8 manpage (closes:  #75268)
 369   * Fix typo in halt(8) manpage (closes:  #67875)
 370   * Check time argument of shutdown(8) for correctness (closes: #67825)
 371   * Check for stale sessions in last(1) (Chris Wolf <cwolf@starclass.com>)
 372
 373  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Wed,  4 Jul 2001 15:04:36 +0200
 374
 375 sysvinit (2.78-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 376
 377   * Change "booting" to "reloading" message at reload
 378   * Add "-z xxx" dummy command line argument (closes: #54717)
 379
 380  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:17:54 +0100
 381
 382 sysvinit (2.78-1) unstable; urgency=low
 383
 384   * 2.78 will be the new upstream version, I'm skipping 2.77
 385   * Shutdown now calls sync before switching the runlevel to 0 or 6,
 386     or before unmounting filesystems if -n was used (closes: #46461)
 387   * Some cosmetic changes to init.c (closes: #32079)
 388
 389  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:40:23 +0100
 390
 391 sysvinit (2.77-2) unstable; urgency=low
 392
 393   * Fix last -i option
 394
 395  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  5 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
 396
 397 sysvinit (2.77-1) unstable; urgency=low
 398
 399   * Write reboot record into utmp file as well to make rms happy
 400   * Fork and dump core in / if SIGSEGV is received for debugging purposes
 401   * Patch by Craig Sanders <cas@vicnet.net.au> for "last" -i option
 402
 403  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Wed,  4 Aug 1999 11:16:23 +0200
 404
 405 sysvinit (2.76-4) unstable; urgency=low
 406
 407   * Change dowall.c to handle Unix98 ptys correctly
 408   * Add comment in rcS about usage of setup.sh and unconfigured.sh
 409   * Shutdown now removes nologin file just before calling telinit
 410   * SEGV handler now tries to continue after sleep of 30 seconds.
 411     On a 386-class processor it also prints out the value of EIP.
 412   * Fix for racecondition in check_init_fifo() by Richard Gooch
 413
 414  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sat,  8 May 1999 17:22:57 +0200
 415
 416 sysvinit (2.76-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 417
 418   * Small bugfix to last.c courtesy of Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.ml.org>
 419
 420  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:44 +0100
 421
 422 sysvinit (2.76-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 423
 424   * Fix bug in check_pipe() which crashes init on the Alpha.
 425
 426  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  3 Nov 1998 11:09:13 +0100
 427
 428 sysvinit (2.75-4) unstable; urgency=low
 429
 430   * Change sulogin password buffer to 128 characters.
 431   * Don't print control characters in dowall.c
 432   * Try to open getenv ("CONSOLE"), /dev/console and /dev/tty0 in order.
 433     For backwards compatibility when you try to boot a 2.0.x kernel
 434     with a linux > 2.1.70 /dev/console device.
 435   * Change src/Makefile for non-debian systems (mainly, RedHat)
 436   * Try to create /dev/initctl if not present; check every time to see
 437     if the dev/ino of /dev/initctl has changed and re-open it. This should
 438     help devfs a bit.
 439   * Send SIGUSR1 to init at bootup to let it re-open /dev/initctl;
 440     again in support of devfs.
 441   * Moved pidof to /bin (it's only a link to killall5 anyway)
 442
 443  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Mon,  5 Oct 1998 14:03:14 +0200
 444
 445 sysvinit (2.75-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
 446
 447   * Fix last.c again.
 448   * Add check to see if /dev/initctl is really a FIFO
 449   * In ifdown.c first down all shaper devices then the real devices
 450
 451  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200
 452
 453 sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
 454
 455   * Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
 456     thanks to Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> and
 457     David Parrish <dparrish@zeta.org.au>
 458   * Fixes bugs:
 459     #21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
 460     #21765: sysvinit: Typo in `killall5.c'
 461     #21775: sysvinit: sysvinit does not support MD5 hashed passwords
 462     #21990: /usr/bin/last: unnecessary memset and off-by-one bug
 463     #22084: sysvinit 2.74-4: SIGPWR missing on sparc
 464     #21900: init, powerfail events, and shutdown.allow
 465     #21702: init 0 does not work as expected...
 466     #21728: sysvinit: Typo in `init.c'
 467     #22363: sysvinit: discrepance btw. manpage and /sbin/init
 468
 469  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29 +0200
 470
 471 sysvinit (2.74-4) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
 472
 473   * Add -o option to last to process libc5 utmp files.
 474   * Buffer overflow fixed in init.c (not very serious; only exploitable
 475     by root). Thanks to Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
 476
 477  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:04:33 +0200
 478
 479 sysvinit (2.74-1) unstable; urgency=low
 480
 481   * Should compile with glibc 1.99 :)
 482   * Change behaviour of reboot(1) and halt(1) so that the default when
 483     the runlevel can't be determined is to call shutdown.
 484   * Added re-exec patch from Al Viro (21 Feb 1998):
 485         'U' flag added to telinit. It forces init to re-exec itself
 486         (passing its state through exec, certainly).
 487         May be useful for smoother (heh) upgrades.
 488         24 Feb 1998, AV:
 489         did_boot made global and added to state - thanks, Miquel.
 490         Yet another file descriptors leak - close state pipe if
 491         re_exec fails.
 492
 493  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:42:46 +0100
 494
 495 sysvinit (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low
 496
 497   * Change _NSIG to NSIG for 2.1.x kernel includes.
 498
 499  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu,  8 Jan 1998 16:01:02 +0100
 500
 501 sysvinit (2.73-1) unstable; urgency=low
 502
 503   * Use siginterrupt, now that system calls are restarted by default.
 504     Main symptom was that the sulogin timeout didn't work but there
 505     might have been more hidden problems.
 506   * Kill process immidiately if turned off in inittab
 507   * Fixed sulogin check on tty arg.
 508   * Use strerror() instead of sys_errlist
 509   * wall now supports a '-n' option to suppress [most of] the banner.
 510     Debian doesn't use sysvinit's wall, but apparently Redhat does.
 511   * Add '-F' (forcefsck) option to shutdown
 512   * Close and reopen /dev/initctl on SIGUSR1 (mainly for a /dev in ram)
 513
 514  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sat,  3 Jan 1998 16:32:39 +0100
 515
 516 sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
 517
 518   * Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
 519
 520  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:00 +0200
 521
 522 sysvinit (2.72) unstable; urgency=low
 523
 524   * Applied manual page patches by Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>.  Thanks Bill!
 525   * Applied patches to the sample Slackware scripts by
 526     "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
 527   * Fix halt and reboot runlevels 0 & 6 check.
 528   * Only say "no more processes left in runlevel x" once
 529   * Fix race condition with SIGCHLD in spawn()
 530     (thanks to Alon Ziv <alonz@CS.Technion.AC.IL>)
 531   * Compress all manpages (missed 2)
 532   * Compiled for libc6
 533   * Added poweroff patch by Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>
 534
 535  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:20:17 +0200
 536
 537 sysvinit (2.71-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
 538
 539   * Print 2.71 instead of 2.70 on startup :)
 540
 541  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Mon, 5 May 1997 12:45:25 +0200
 542
 543 sysvinit (2.71-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 544
 545   * Added code for updwtmp() in utmp.c for glibc (2.0.3)
 546   * Fixed all programs to use functions from utmp.c and getutent()
 547   * Do not try to clean up utmp in init itself (Bug#9022)
 548   * Removed sync() from main loop.
 549   * Hopefully fixes bug #8657 (shutdown signal handling)
 550
 551  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:27 +0200
 552
 553 sysvinit (2.70-1) unstable; urgency=low
 554
 555   * Respawn fix
 556   * Removed StUdLy CaPs from source code
 557   * Moved files in source archive around
 558   * Fixes for glibc (utmp handling, signal handling).
 559   * Fixed '-d' option to last (now also works without '-a').
 560   * Added extra checking in last.c to prevent showing dead entries
 561
 562  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:31:30 +0100
 563
 564 sysvinit (2.69-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
 565
 566   * Fixed bug that can throw X in a loop (or any other app that reads from
 567     /dev/tty0)
 568
 569  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:32:24 +0100
 570
 571 sysvinit (2.67-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
 572
 573   * Fixes problem with /dev/console being controlling terminal of some
 574     daemons
 575   * Puts copyright file in the right place
 576
 577  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:23:33 +0100
 578
 579 sysvinit (2.66-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 580
 581   * Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
 582     being used..
 583   * Also compiles and runs with GNU libc (and on the Alpha)
 584   * Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
 585   * Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
 586   * Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
 587   * Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait
 588     This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
 589   * Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
 590     /var/log and /etc itself.
 591
 592  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:46:54 +0100
 593
 594 2.66    29-Oct-1996
 595 - Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
 596   being used..
 597 - Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
 598 - Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
 599 - Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
 600 - Ported to Linux/Alpha and GNU libc.
 601 - Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait.
 602   This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
 603 - Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
 604   /var/log and /etc itself.
 605
 606 2.64    28-Jun-1996
 607 - Init checks CONSOLE environment variable on startup (overrides /dev/console)
 608 - Init sets CONSOLE variable for all its children.
 609 - Wtmp(): when zeroing out old utmp entries, keep ut_id field
 610 - Wtmp(): try to re-use ut_id field if possible.
 611 - SetTerm(): only read from /etc/ioctl.save if written once.
 612 - Included start-stop-daemon, C version (source only).
 613 - Fixed wait() for the emergency shell.
 614 - killall5: ignore signal before doing kill(-1, pid).
 615
 616 2.63    14-Jun-1996
 617 - Fixed preinst script for Debian
 618 - Fixed init.c to become init daemon if name is init.new
 619 - Fixed pidof to not return PIDs of shell scripts
 620
 621 2.62-2  09-Jun-1996
 622 - Changed debian /etc/init.d/boot script to create a nologin file
 623   at boot and to remove it just before going multiuser.
 624
 625 2.62    31-May-1996
 626 - Decided to release a 2.62 version with a BIG WARNING about upgrading
 627   init in it. Will send a patch to Linus for the linux/Documentation/Changes
 628   file so that 2.62 or later is mentioned as the version to upgrade to.
 629 - Added docs for Slackware
 630
 631 2.61-3  29-May-1996
 632 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/network for the lo device.
 633 - Added "-xdev" to the cd /tmp && find in debian/etc/init.d/boot
 634 - Made remove time for files in /tmp configurable.
 635
 636 2.61    29-Apr-1996
 637 - Changed /etc/init.d/boot script again
 638 - Fixed problem in init.c with trailing whitespace after entries in inittab
 639 - Fixed killall5 problems
 640 - Added manpage for lastb
 641 - Added SHELL= environment variable to sulogin
 642 - Fixed sulogin & shadow problems
 643 - Added timeout option to sulogin
 644
 645 2.60-2  16-Apr-1996
 646 - Fixed sulogin (didn't work if root wasn't first entry in shadow file)
 647 - Fixed mesg for systems with "tty" group (such as Debian)
 648 - Fixed nsyslog() in killall5.c
 649
 650 2.60   01-Apr-1996
 651 - Fixed race condition in init.c, resulting in hanging shutdowns.
 652   Courtesy of Max Neunhoeffer <Max.Neunhoeffer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.
 653 - Fixed debian/etc/init.d/boot for swapon and mdadd
 654 - Added architecture to debian.control
 655 - Added manpages for rc.boot and rc.local
 656 - Updated inittab manpage for 4-character runlevel field
 657 - Added debian replaces for bsdutils < version_without_mesg
 658 - Fixed init.c so that it also works with kernels 1.3.81 and up
 659
 660 2.59   10-Mar-1996
 661 - Init logs less to syslog (suspected to hang in syslog() or openlog() )
 662 - removed closelog() from init.c
 663 - removed time check of runlevel record in halt.
 664 - Added options to last to get hostname from ut_addr field
 665 - Added last and mesg to installation targets
 666 - rewrote /etc/init.d/boot a bit.
 667
 668 2.58-2 04-Jan-1996
 669 - Changed etc/init.d/rc to do a stty onlcr
 670 - Added /var/log/initrunlvl symlink
 671
 672 2.58-1 31-Dec-1995
 673 - Added the latest debian files.
 674 - Added support for 4-character id fields (if you have libc5).
 675 - Fixed pidof (in killall5) parsing of /proc/.../stat
 676 - Save restore GMT setting in /etc/init.d/boot
 677
 678 2.57d 03-Dec-1995
 679 - Added sulogin
 680 - Added "-b" flag to init, gives a shell before
 681   anything else (in case the startup scripts are screwed)
 682 - Moved fastboot to /fastboot
 683 - Folded in Debian patches.
 684 - Removed old scripts
 685 - Added debian /etc/directory.
 686
 687 2.57c 08-Oct-1995
 688 - Changed over to init_request (with initreq.h)
 689 - Processes no longer killed when "process" field
 690   changes, change takes effect after next respawn.
 691
 692 2.57b xx-Aug-1995
 693 - Bugfix release for Debian and Slackware 3.0
 694
 695 2.57a 10-Jul-1995
 696 - Fixed race condition init init.c wrt got_chld
 697 - Fixed one-off for malloc in killall5.c
 698 - Changed dowall.c
 699 - Console code: no relink to /dev/systty on CTRL-ALT-DEL)
 700
 701 2.57 22-May-1995
 702 - Changed a few things here and there, didn't
 703                   really document it :)
 704
 705 2.55 17-Jan-1995
 706 - Added option to shutdown to run standalone.
 707
 708 2.54 12-Jan-1995
 709 - Added GNU copyrigh to all *.[ch] files.
 710 - added /etc/initscript
 711 - reboot and halt now call shutdown in runlevels 1-5
 712 - Can run from read-only root (CDROM)
 713
 714 2.53 10-Oct-1994
 715 - Renamed pidof to killall5, updated all scripts to
 716   use killall5 instead of kill -1 ....
 717 - Rewrote scripts to use this, and some general changes.
 718 - Added SysV command line compatibility to shutdown.
 719
 720 2.52 30-Aug-1994
 721 - Added `powerfailnow' keyword, for when UPS battery is low.
 722 - Updated `last'.
 723 - Fixed utmp handling (wrt. CLEAN_UTMP)
 724 TODO:
 725 * Make last compatible with GNU/BSD (long options?)
 726 * update powerd
 727 * remote SIGPWR broadcast? in powerd? (with priv. port)
 728 * remote shutdown
 729
 730 2.50  14-Feb-1994
 731 - Ignores unknown command line arguments.
 732 - Modelled more after the "real" sysVinit
 733 - Lots of changes all over the place.
 734   (like showing runlevel in "ps" listing, logging
 735    runlevel into utmp file etc)
 736 - now using "reliable" signals instead of V7 style.
 737 - Updated all scripts. Examples are in two directories:
 738   etc (normal) and etc-sysv (sysv style scripts).
 739 - runlevel 0 = halt, 1 = single user, 6 = reboot.
 740 - added support for serial console.
 741 - updated Propaganda, manpages.
 742 - added shutdown access control.
 743
 744 2.4  24-May-93
 745 - Send out the official version into the world as
 746   SysVinit-2.4.tar.z.
 747
 748 2.4g 15-May-93
 749 - Changed init to really catch SIGPWR 'cause we
 750   hooked up an UPS to the Linux machine. The
 751   keyword for catching the TreeFingerSalute is
 752   now "ctrlaltdel" instead of "power{wait,fail}".
 753
 754 2.4a 22-Apr-93
 755 - Fixed last to reckognize BSD style wtmp logging.
 756 - Changed init to write wtmp records that are
 757   SysV compliant but are also reckognized by the
 758   BSD last. Added a '+' option to the 'process'
 759   field of inittab, for getties that want to do
 760   their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping (kludge!).
 761 - Now accepts a runlevel on the command line,
 762   and reckognizes the 'auto' argument. (Sets the
 763   environment variable AUTOBOOT to YES)
 764
 765 2.2.3 24-Mar-93
 766 - Ripped out the 'leave' action. To difficult, and
 767   unneeded.
 768 - Going single user now kills _all_ processes.
 769 - Added '-t secs' option to all commands.
 770 - This version is stable enough to post.
 771
 772 2.2 02-Mar-93
 773 - Made wait()'s asynchronous
 774 - Changed whole thing to one big state machine
 775 - Now using 'pseudo levels' # & * for SYSINIT & BOOT
 776 - Added a new type of 'action', called leave. This
 777   process will be executed when the system goes from a
 778   runlevel specified in it's runlevel field to a
 779   level that's not. Nice to bring down NFS and the like.
 780
 781 2.1 28-Jan-93
 782 - Fixed a bug with 'boot' and 'once'.
 783 - Check 'initdefault' for validity.
 784 - Reckognizes "single" as command line argument.
 785 - Retries execvp with 'sh -c exec ..' if command
 786   is a shell script. (shouldn't execvp do this?)
 787 - Added patches to use syslog if defined.
 788
 789 2.0 08-Dec-92
 790 - Rewrote the code totally, so started with a new
 791   version number.
 792 - Dropped Minix support, this code now is Linux - specific.
 793 - With TEST switch on, this init & telinit can
 794   run standalone for test purposes.
 795
 796 1.3, 05-Jul-92
 797 - Got a 386, so installed Linux. Added 'soft' reboot
 798   to be default under linux. Fixed some typos.
 799
 800 1.2, 16-Jun-92
 801 - Bugreport from Michael Haardt ; removed deadlock
 802   and added 'waitpid' instead of 'wait' for SYSV.
 803
 804 1.1, 30-Apr-92
 805 - Read manual wrong: there is no 'action' field called
 806   process, but all entries are of type process. Every
 807   'process' get exec'ed by /bin/sh -c 'exec command'.
 808 - Rapidly respawning processes are caught in the act.
 809 - _SYSV support is really Linux support,
 810   done by poe@daimi.aau.dk on 25-Mar-92.
 811
 812  1.0, 01-Feb-92
 813 - Initial version, very primitive for the Minix
 814   operating system. Required some mods. to the
 815   kernel.
 816