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64 lines
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util-linux-1.6.tar.gz (source distribution)
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util-linux-1.6.bin.tar.gz (binary distribution)
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WARNING: THIS COLLECTION DOES *NOT* SUPPORT SHADOW PASSWORDS.
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WARNING: THIS COLLECTION DOES *NOT* SUPPORT SYSTEM V INITTAB.
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WARNING: USE GNU TAR -- OTHER TARS WILL FAIL SILENTLY!
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WARNING: DO *NOT* INSTALL WITHOUT THINKING.
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WARNING: Read the util-linux-1.6.Notes file *BEFORE* and *AFTER*
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installation: there are a few links you must make by hand.
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This is a collection of many assorted utilities for Linux. Some are
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system utilities that are not easily available anywhere elsewhere
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(e.g., mkfs); others are BSD ports of common utilities that are not yet
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contained in any FSF package (e.g., col.); others are non-System-V
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alternatives to common utilities (e.g., simpleinit, agetty, login,
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passwd).
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This distribution is a superset of my previous distributions:
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util-etc*, util-bin*, and util-usrbin*. With this distribution, the
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location of many files have changed. Notably, there are no binaries in
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/etc. Binaries that were in /etc have been moved to /sbin, /bin,
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/usr/sbin, and /usr/bin. The arrangement, as nearly as I can
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determine, conforms to the Linux Filesystem Standard, with no
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exceptions:
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Many people provided patches and suggestions. I deeply appreciate
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this.
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HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.6:
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Additions:
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1) Kevin Martin's cfdisk: a curses based fdisk!
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2) Eric Youngdale's bdflush
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3) sln: a statically linked (and very stupid) ln
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4) getopt(1)
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Deletions:
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1) doshell hasn't been needed for years (since before 0.98 when getty
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didn't exist). I have deleted it.
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2) To avoid horrible confusion, ldd and ldconfig have been removed.
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Find them in David Engel's ldso package.
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Updates:
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1) Softlinks are now relative.
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2) The backspace problem with agetty is fixed.
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3) "maintenance" is now spelled correctly.
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4) The example files have been updated.
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5) Per Kang-Jin Lee's (lee@tengu.in-berlin.de) suggestion, there is
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now an "install.shadow" target that will *NOT* overwrite chsh,
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login, newgrp, and passwd. There is no other shadow password
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support.
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6) Timezone support totally updated (zic and zdump moved to /usr/sbin)
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7) mount man page updated per Remy Card (Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr)
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8) MAKEDEV has been updated
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9) sync is now statically linked
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10) fdisk 1.5 was patched to support DOS and OS/2 partitions.
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