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