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sysvinit (2.87dsf) world; urgency=low
* Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
* Correct section of mountpoint(1).
* Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
* Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
* Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
* Adjust output from "last -x". In reboot lines, print endpoint
of uptime too. In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
the time between downs. Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
Patch by Thomas Hood.
* Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last. Patch from Fedora.
* Document last options in usage information, previously only
mentioned in the manual page.
* Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
of the short form provided by default. Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
and SuSe.
* Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
are stripped.
* Increase the compiler warning level when building.
* Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Bill
Nottingham and Fedora.
* Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
* Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
the new process. Patch from RedHat.
* Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
re-exec. Patch from RedHat.
* Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
boot. Patch from SuSe.
* Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6. Patch from Thomas Hood.
* Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink. Patch from
Thomas Hood.
* Improve error message from init if fork() fail. Patch found in Suse.
* Add support for SE Linux capability handling. Patch from Manoj
Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
* Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
process root. Ignore -c when not running as root. Patch from
Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
* Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
process name can be one character longer. Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
* Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
the child successfully.
* Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
fdatasync(). Patch from Thomas Hood.
* Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
not exist. Patch from Thomas Hood.
* Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA. Patch
from Thomas Hood.
* Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
value is usable on re-exec. Patch from Thomas Hood.
* Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
to reschedule. Patch from SuSe.
* Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
* Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option. Patch from
Samuel Thibault.
* Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
* Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly. Patches
from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
* Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
string lengths. Patch from SuSe.
* Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
* Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake. Patch from SuSe.
* Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
processes to kill. Patch from Debian.
* Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
some pids during shutdown. Based on patch from Colin Watson and
Ubuntu.
* Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages. Patch from Debian.
* Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
avoiding stat() when the value isn't used. Also, lock process
pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
Modderman.
* Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
and document this requirement in the manual page.
* Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
* Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.
-- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200
sysvinit (2.86) cistron; urgency=low
* Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal
linebuffer to process \r, \t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
* Applied trivial OWL patches
* Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
(James Olin Oden <joden@malachi.lee.k12.nc.us>, redhat bug #97534)
* Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
* killall5 now skips kernel threads
* Inittab entries with both 'S' and other runlevels were broken.
Fix by Bryan Kadzban <bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
* Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
* You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in
init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only
variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
16 variables. There's also a length limit due to the size
of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
* Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and
INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
* Add "mountpoint" utility.
* Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
* Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t,
sulogin-message, user-console)
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
sysvinit (2.85) cistron; urgency=low
* Add IPv6 support in last(1)
* Sulogin: even if the root password is empty, ask for a password-
otherwise there is no way to set a timeout.
* Removed support for ioctl.save.
* Turned of support for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/run/initrunlvl
* Fixed warts in dowall.c ("Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>)
* Fix init.c::spawn(). The "f" variable was used both as file descriptor
and waitpid(2) return code. In certain circumstances, this leads to
TIOCSCTTY with wrong file descriptor (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
* Fix fd leak in sulogin (Dmitry V. Levin).
* More error checking in all wait() calling code (Dmitry V. Levin).
* Fix argv[] initialization in spawn() (Dmitry V. Levin).
* Change strncpy to strncat in most places (Dmitry V. Levin).
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:37:57 +0200
sysvinit (2.84) cistron; urgency=low
* Don't use /etc/initlvl interface for telinit; only use /dev/initctl,
and give a clear error when that fails.
* Add -i/--init command line flag to init - this tells init
'behave as system init even if you're not PID#1'. Useful for
testing in chroot/jail type environments.
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:10:08 +0100
sysvinit (2.83) cistron; urgency=low
* Fix bug in shutdown where it didn't check correctly for a
virtual console when checking /etc/shutdown.allow
* Fix race condition in waitpid() [Andrea Arcangeli]
* Call closelog() after openlog()/syslog() since recent libc's
keep the logging fd open and that is fd#0 aka stdin.
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:27:06 +0200
sysvinit (2.82) cistron; urgency=low
* Print out correct version number at startup.
* Fix spelling of initttab in init(8)
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:50:44 +0200
sysvinit (2.81) cistron; urgency=low
* Fix typo/bug in killall5/pidof, -o option failed to work since 2.79.
Reformatted source code to prevent this from happening again.
* shutdown.8: applied redhat manpage update
* sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sulogin-nologin.patch
* sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-notty.patch
* sulogin: applied redhat sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
sysvinit (2.80) cistron; urgency=low
* Grammar/spelling fixes in shutdown.c (Christian Steinrueck)
* Don't set controlling tty for non-(sysinit,boot,single) runlevels
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:26:56 +0200
sysvinit (2.79) cistron; urgency=low
* New upstream version
* several fixes to wall by Tim Robbins <fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org>
* Several extra boundary checks by Solar Designer
* Make /dev/console controlling tty
* Stricter checks on ownership of tty by mesg(1)
* Documented and restricted -n option to wall(1)
* Make it compile with glibc 2.2.2
* Document IO redirection in wall manpage (closes: #79491)
* Update README (closes: #85650)
* Fix init.8 manpage (closes: #75268)
* Fix typo in halt(8) manpage (closes: #67875)
* Check time argument of shutdown(8) for correctness (closes: #67825)
* Check for stale sessions in last(1) (Chris Wolf <cwolf@starclass.com>)
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:04:36 +0200
sysvinit (2.78-2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* Change "booting" to "reloading" message at reload
* Add "-z xxx" dummy command line argument (closes: #54717)
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:17:54 +0100
sysvinit (2.78-1) unstable; urgency=low
* 2.78 will be the new upstream version, I'm skipping 2.77
* Shutdown now calls sync before switching the runlevel to 0 or 6,
or before unmounting filesystems if -n was used (closes: #46461)
* Some cosmetic changes to init.c (closes: #32079)
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:40:23 +0100
sysvinit (2.77-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix last -i option
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
sysvinit (2.77-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Write reboot record into utmp file as well to make rms happy
* Fork and dump core in / if SIGSEGV is received for debugging purposes
* Patch by Craig Sanders <cas@vicnet.net.au> for "last" -i option
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:16:23 +0200
sysvinit (2.76-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Change dowall.c to handle Unix98 ptys correctly
* Add comment in rcS about usage of setup.sh and unconfigured.sh
* Shutdown now removes nologin file just before calling telinit
* SEGV handler now tries to continue after sleep of 30 seconds.
On a 386-class processor it also prints out the value of EIP.
* Fix for racecondition in check_init_fifo() by Richard Gooch
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 8 May 1999 17:22:57 +0200
sysvinit (2.76-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* Small bugfix to last.c courtesy of Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.ml.org>
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:44 +0100
sysvinit (2.76-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* Fix bug in check_pipe() which crashes init on the Alpha.
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:09:13 +0100
sysvinit (2.75-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Change sulogin password buffer to 128 characters.
* Don't print control characters in dowall.c
* Try to open getenv ("CONSOLE"), /dev/console and /dev/tty0 in order.
For backwards compatibility when you try to boot a 2.0.x kernel
with a linux > 2.1.70 /dev/console device.
* Change src/Makefile for non-debian systems (mainly, RedHat)
* Try to create /dev/initctl if not present; check every time to see
if the dev/ino of /dev/initctl has changed and re-open it. This should
help devfs a bit.
* Send SIGUSR1 to init at bootup to let it re-open /dev/initctl;
again in support of devfs.
* Moved pidof to /bin (it's only a link to killall5 anyway)
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:03:14 +0200
sysvinit (2.75-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix last.c again.
* Add check to see if /dev/initctl is really a FIFO
* In ifdown.c first down all shaper devices then the real devices
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200
sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
thanks to Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> and
David Parrish <dparrish@zeta.org.au>
* Fixes bugs:
#21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
#21765: sysvinit: Typo in `killall5.c'
#21775: sysvinit: sysvinit does not support MD5 hashed passwords
#21990: /usr/bin/last: unnecessary memset and off-by-one bug
#22084: sysvinit 2.74-4: SIGPWR missing on sparc
#21900: init, powerfail events, and shutdown.allow
#21702: init 0 does not work as expected...
#21728: sysvinit: Typo in `init.c'
#22363: sysvinit: discrepance btw. manpage and /sbin/init
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29 +0200
sysvinit (2.74-4) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
* Add -o option to last to process libc5 utmp files.
* Buffer overflow fixed in init.c (not very serious; only exploitable
by root). Thanks to Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:04:33 +0200
sysvinit (2.74-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Should compile with glibc 1.99 :)
* Change behaviour of reboot(1) and halt(1) so that the default when
the runlevel can't be determined is to call shutdown.
* Added re-exec patch from Al Viro (21 Feb 1998):
'U' flag added to telinit. It forces init to re-exec itself
(passing its state through exec, certainly).
May be useful for smoother (heh) upgrades.
24 Feb 1998, AV:
did_boot made global and added to state - thanks, Miquel.
Yet another file descriptors leak - close state pipe if
re_exec fails.
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:42:46 +0100
sysvinit (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Change _NSIG to NSIG for 2.1.x kernel includes.
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:01:02 +0100
sysvinit (2.73-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Use siginterrupt, now that system calls are restarted by default.
Main symptom was that the sulogin timeout didn't work but there
might have been more hidden problems.
* Kill process immidiately if turned off in inittab
* Fixed sulogin check on tty arg.
* Use strerror() instead of sys_errlist
* wall now supports a '-n' option to suppress [most of] the banner.
Debian doesn't use sysvinit's wall, but apparently Redhat does.
* Add '-F' (forcefsck) option to shutdown
* Close and reopen /dev/initctl on SIGUSR1 (mainly for a /dev in ram)
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:32:39 +0100
sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:00 +0200
sysvinit (2.72) unstable; urgency=low
* Applied manual page patches by Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>. Thanks Bill!
* Applied patches to the sample Slackware scripts by
"Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
* Fix halt and reboot runlevels 0 & 6 check.
* Only say "no more processes left in runlevel x" once
* Fix race condition with SIGCHLD in spawn()
(thanks to Alon Ziv <alonz@CS.Technion.AC.IL>)
* Compress all manpages (missed 2)
* Compiled for libc6
* Added poweroff patch by Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:20:17 +0200
sysvinit (2.71-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Print 2.71 instead of 2.70 on startup :)
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Mon, 5 May 1997 12:45:25 +0200
sysvinit (2.71-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* Added code for updwtmp() in utmp.c for glibc (2.0.3)
* Fixed all programs to use functions from utmp.c and getutent()
* Do not try to clean up utmp in init itself (Bug#9022)
* Removed sync() from main loop.
* Hopefully fixes bug #8657 (shutdown signal handling)
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:27 +0200
sysvinit (2.70-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Respawn fix
* Removed StUdLy CaPs from source code
* Moved files in source archive around
* Fixes for glibc (utmp handling, signal handling).
* Fixed '-d' option to last (now also works without '-a').
* Added extra checking in last.c to prevent showing dead entries
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:31:30 +0100
sysvinit (2.69-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
* Fixed bug that can throw X in a loop (or any other app that reads from
/dev/tty0)
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:32:24 +0100
sysvinit (2.67-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* Fixes problem with /dev/console being controlling terminal of some
daemons
* Puts copyright file in the right place
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:23:33 +0100
sysvinit (2.66-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
being used..
* Also compiles and runs with GNU libc (and on the Alpha)
* Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
* Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
* Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
* Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait
This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
* Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
/var/log and /etc itself.
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:46:54 +0100
2.66 29-Oct-1996
- Skipped 2.65. A development 2.65 got out by accident and is apparently
being used..
- Fixed dowall.c not to exit when getpwuid() fails and uid == 0.
- Fixed init panic'ing on empty lines in /etc/inittab
- Changed default PATH to include /usr/local/sbin
- Ported to Linux/Alpha and GNU libc.
- Set /dev/console as controlling terminal for sysinit,bootwait,wait,powerwait.
This allows using ^C to interrupt some parts of eg the boot process.
- Remove old symlink in /var/log/initlvl; let init check both
/var/log and /etc itself.
2.64 28-Jun-1996
- Init checks CONSOLE environment variable on startup (overrides /dev/console)
- Init sets CONSOLE variable for all its children.
- Wtmp(): when zeroing out old utmp entries, keep ut_id field
- Wtmp(): try to re-use ut_id field if possible.
- SetTerm(): only read from /etc/ioctl.save if written once.
- Included start-stop-daemon, C version (source only).
- Fixed wait() for the emergency shell.
- killall5: ignore signal before doing kill(-1, pid).
2.63 14-Jun-1996
- Fixed preinst script for Debian
- Fixed init.c to become init daemon if name is init.new
- Fixed pidof to not return PIDs of shell scripts
2.62-2 09-Jun-1996
- Changed debian /etc/init.d/boot script to create a nologin file
at boot and to remove it just before going multiuser.
2.62 31-May-1996
- Decided to release a 2.62 version with a BIG WARNING about upgrading
init in it. Will send a patch to Linus for the linux/Documentation/Changes
file so that 2.62 or later is mentioned as the version to upgrade to.
- Added docs for Slackware
2.61-3 29-May-1996
- Fixed debian/etc/init.d/network for the lo device.
- Added "-xdev" to the cd /tmp && find in debian/etc/init.d/boot
- Made remove time for files in /tmp configurable.
2.61 29-Apr-1996
- Changed /etc/init.d/boot script again
- Fixed problem in init.c with trailing whitespace after entries in inittab
- Fixed killall5 problems
- Added manpage for lastb
- Added SHELL= environment variable to sulogin
- Fixed sulogin & shadow problems
- Added timeout option to sulogin
2.60-2 16-Apr-1996
- Fixed sulogin (didn't work if root wasn't first entry in shadow file)
- Fixed mesg for systems with "tty" group (such as Debian)
- Fixed nsyslog() in killall5.c
2.60 01-Apr-1996
- Fixed race condition in init.c, resulting in hanging shutdowns.
Courtesy of Max Neunhoeffer <Max.Neunhoeffer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.
- Fixed debian/etc/init.d/boot for swapon and mdadd
- Added architecture to debian.control
- Added manpages for rc.boot and rc.local
- Updated inittab manpage for 4-character runlevel field
- Added debian replaces for bsdutils < version_without_mesg
- Fixed init.c so that it also works with kernels 1.3.81 and up
2.59 10-Mar-1996
- Init logs less to syslog (suspected to hang in syslog() or openlog() )
- removed closelog() from init.c
- removed time check of runlevel record in halt.
- Added options to last to get hostname from ut_addr field
- Added last and mesg to installation targets
- rewrote /etc/init.d/boot a bit.
2.58-2 04-Jan-1996
- Changed etc/init.d/rc to do a stty onlcr
- Added /var/log/initrunlvl symlink
2.58-1 31-Dec-1995
- Added the latest debian files.
- Added support for 4-character id fields (if you have libc5).
- Fixed pidof (in killall5) parsing of /proc/.../stat
- Save restore GMT setting in /etc/init.d/boot
2.57d 03-Dec-1995
- Added sulogin
- Added "-b" flag to init, gives a shell before
anything else (in case the startup scripts are screwed)
- Moved fastboot to /fastboot
- Folded in Debian patches.
- Removed old scripts
- Added debian /etc/directory.
2.57c 08-Oct-1995
- Changed over to init_request (with initreq.h)
- Processes no longer killed when "process" field
changes, change takes effect after next respawn.
2.57b xx-Aug-1995
- Bugfix release for Debian and Slackware 3.0
2.57a 10-Jul-1995
- Fixed race condition init init.c wrt got_chld
- Fixed one-off for malloc in killall5.c
- Changed dowall.c
- Console code: no relink to /dev/systty on CTRL-ALT-DEL)
2.57 22-May-1995
- Changed a few things here and there, didn't
really document it :)
2.55 17-Jan-1995
- Added option to shutdown to run standalone.
2.54 12-Jan-1995
- Added GNU copyrigh to all *.[ch] files.
- added /etc/initscript
- reboot and halt now call shutdown in runlevels 1-5
- Can run from read-only root (CDROM)
2.53 10-Oct-1994
- Renamed pidof to killall5, updated all scripts to
use killall5 instead of kill -1 ....
- Rewrote scripts to use this, and some general changes.
- Added SysV command line compatibility to shutdown.
2.52 30-Aug-1994
- Added `powerfailnow' keyword, for when UPS battery is low.
- Updated `last'.
- Fixed utmp handling (wrt. CLEAN_UTMP)
TODO:
* Make last compatible with GNU/BSD (long options?)
* update powerd
* remote SIGPWR broadcast? in powerd? (with priv. port)
* remote shutdown
2.50 14-Feb-1994
- Ignores unknown command line arguments.
- Modelled more after the "real" sysVinit
- Lots of changes all over the place.
(like showing runlevel in "ps" listing, logging
runlevel into utmp file etc)
- now using "reliable" signals instead of V7 style.
- Updated all scripts. Examples are in two directories:
etc (normal) and etc-sysv (sysv style scripts).
- runlevel 0 = halt, 1 = single user, 6 = reboot.
- added support for serial console.
- updated Propaganda, manpages.
- added shutdown access control.
2.4 24-May-93
- Send out the official version into the world as
SysVinit-2.4.tar.z.
2.4g 15-May-93
- Changed init to really catch SIGPWR 'cause we
hooked up an UPS to the Linux machine. The
keyword for catching the TreeFingerSalute is
now "ctrlaltdel" instead of "power{wait,fail}".
2.4a 22-Apr-93
- Fixed last to reckognize BSD style wtmp logging.
- Changed init to write wtmp records that are
SysV compliant but are also reckognized by the
BSD last. Added a '+' option to the 'process'
field of inittab, for getties that want to do
their own utmp/wtmp housekeeping (kludge!).
- Now accepts a runlevel on the command line,
and reckognizes the 'auto' argument. (Sets the
environment variable AUTOBOOT to YES)
2.2.3 24-Mar-93
- Ripped out the 'leave' action. To difficult, and
unneeded.
- Going single user now kills _all_ processes.
- Added '-t secs' option to all commands.
- This version is stable enough to post.
2.2 02-Mar-93
- Made wait()'s asynchronous
- Changed whole thing to one big state machine
- Now using 'pseudo levels' # & * for SYSINIT & BOOT
- Added a new type of 'action', called leave. This
process will be executed when the system goes from a
runlevel specified in it's runlevel field to a
level that's not. Nice to bring down NFS and the like.
2.1 28-Jan-93
- Fixed a bug with 'boot' and 'once'.
- Check 'initdefault' for validity.
- Reckognizes "single" as command line argument.
- Retries execvp with 'sh -c exec ..' if command
is a shell script. (shouldn't execvp do this?)
- Added patches to use syslog if defined.
2.0 08-Dec-92
- Rewrote the code totally, so started with a new
version number.
- Dropped Minix support, this code now is Linux - specific.
- With TEST switch on, this init & telinit can
run standalone for test purposes.
1.3, 05-Jul-92
- Got a 386, so installed Linux. Added 'soft' reboot
to be default under linux. Fixed some typos.
1.2, 16-Jun-92
- Bugreport from Michael Haardt ; removed deadlock
and added 'waitpid' instead of 'wait' for SYSV.
1.1, 30-Apr-92
- Read manual wrong: there is no 'action' field called
process, but all entries are of type process. Every
'process' get exec'ed by /bin/sh -c 'exec command'.
- Rapidly respawning processes are caught in the act.
- _SYSV support is really Linux support,
done by poe@daimi.aau.dk on 25-Mar-92.
1.0, 01-Feb-92
- Initial version, very primitive for the Minix
operating system. Required some mods. to the
kernel.

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README for the System V style init, version 2.86
init, shutdown, halt, reboot, wall, last, mesg, runlevel,
killall5, pidof, sulogin.
All programs, files and scripts in this package are covered by
the Gnu Public License, and copyrighted by me.
If you are not using Debian and the debianized package,
you will have to install the new init by hand. You should
be able to drop the binaries into a Slackware or Redhat
system, I think.
Here is a list of preferred directories to install the progs & manpages:
wall.1, last.1, mesg.1 /usr/man/man1
inittab.5, initscript.5 /usr/man/man5
init.8, halt.8, reboot.8,
shutdown.8, powerd.8,
killall5.8, pidof.8,
runlevel.8, sulogin.8 /usr/man/man8
init /sbin/init
inittab /etc/inittab
initscript.sample /etc/initscript.sample
telinit a link (with ln(1) ) to init, either
in /bin or in /sbin.
halt /sbin/halt
reboot a link to /sbin/halt in the same directory
killall5 /sbin/killall5
pidof a link to /sbin/killall5 in the same directory.
runlevel /sbin/runlevel
shutdown /sbin/shutdown.
wall /usr/bin/wall
mesg /usr/bin/mesg
last /usr/bin/last
sulogin /sbin/sulogin
bootlogd /sbin/bootlogd
utmpdump don't install, it's just a debug thingy.
If you already _have_ a "wall" in /bin (the SLS release had, for example)
do _not_ install this wall. Chances are that the wall you are already
using is linked to /bin/write. Either first _remove_ /bin/wall before
installing the new one, or don't install the new one at all.
You might want to create a file called "/etc/shutdown.allow". Read the
manual page on shutdown to find out more about this.
Running from a read-only file system (CDROM?):
o All communication to init goes through the FIFO /dev/initctl.
There should be no problem using a read-only root file system
IF you use a Linux kernel > 1.3.66. Older kernels don't allow
writing to a FIFO on a read-only file system.
Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>

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Propaganda for version 2.58 of sysvinit & utilities
==================================================
NOTE: If you use a standard distribution like Slackware, Debian
or Redhat there probably is no need to upgrade. Installing sysvinit
is only for those that upgrade their system by hand or for people
that create Linux distributions.
Sysvinit is probably the most widely used init package for Linux.
Most distributions use it. sysvinit 2.4 is really a good package,
and it was not the need for bugfixes but the need for more features
that made me work on sysvinit again.
Sysvinit is now a debian package. Debian source packages are not
special in any way -- in fact you can just unpack and compile
it on any other Linux distribution.
There was a 2.50 release of sysvinit but that was not very popular-
some of the included scripts broke with certain shells and other
minor things like that. Unfortunately I was not able to fix this
at the time because I was abroad for some time. Therefore the
description below is a comparison of 2.4 and 2.58 (actually the
same blurb as from the 2.50 announce but updated).
Wrt 2.4, some of the code has been made simpler. Everything, from
halt to reboot to single user mode is now done by shell scripts
that are executed directly by init (from /etc/inittab), so shutdown
does not kill processes anymore and then calls reboot - it merely
does some wall's to the logged in users and then switches to
runlevel 0 (halt), 1 (single user) or 6 (reboot).
I have removed support for the old style scripts; the included
example scripts are the Debian GNU/Linux distribution scripts.
This does not mean that eg the Slackware scripts stop to work;
you can probably drop this init into Slackware 3.0 without problems.
Most people have an entry in inittab to run shutdown when CTRL-ALT-DEL
is pressed; a feature has been added to shutdown to check if a
authorized user is logged in on one of the consoles to see if a
shutdown is allowed. This can be configured with an access file.
Some other general changes:
- utility "runlevel" to read the current and previous runlevel from
/var/run/utmp (it's also shown on the command line if you do a "ps").
- unreckognized options are silently ignored (such as the infamous
"ro" - mount root file system read only).
- if the file /etc/initscript is present it will be used to launch
all programs that init starts (so that you can set a generic
umask, ulimit eg for ALL processes - see initscript.sample).
- A "sulogin" program added that always asks for the root
passsword before entering single user mode.
- A "-b" flag to init that starts a shell at boot time before
_any_ other processing.
- I moved /etc/fastboot to /fastboot - wonder what that's gonna break :)
- I even updated the manpages!
Right, now some boring stuff you already know since it's the same
as in the 2.4 release:
The sysvinit package includes
* a sysv compatible /sbin/init program
* a telinit program (er, just a link to /sbin/init) to change runlevels
* a featureful shutdown
* halt and reboot to assist shutdown
* a very forgiving last utility
* the wall & mesg programs (not installed by default)
* manpages for everything
The new sysv init can be found on:
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin as sysvinit-2.58-1.tar.gz
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Daemons as sysvinit-2.58-1.tar.gz
It will be moved there in a few days, in the mean time it is
probably in the Incoming directory.
Mike. (02-Jan-1996)

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bootlogd: a way to capture all console output during bootup
in a logfile.
- bootlogd opens /dev/console and finds out what the real console is
with an ioctl() if TIOCCONS is available
- otherwise bootlogd tries to parse /proc/cmdline for console=
kernel command line arguments
- then opens the (most probable) real console
- allocates a pty pair
- redirects console I/O to the pty pair
- then goes in a loop reading from the pty, writing to the real
console and a logfile as soon as a r/w partition is available,
buffering in memory until then.
As soon as bootlogd exits or gets killed, the pty is closed and the
redirection will be automatically undone by the kernel. So that's
pretty safe.

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Title: sysvinit and utilities
Version: 2.86
Entered-Date: 30JUL2004
Description: This is the Linux System V init.
This version can be compiled with glibc 2.0.6 and up.
Author: miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Primary-Site: ftp.cistron.nl /pub/people/miquels/software
92K sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz
Alternate-Site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/daemons/init
92K sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz
Copying-Policy: GPL
Keywords: init shutdown halt reboot
End