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