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