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