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