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