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103 lines
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util-linux-1.9.tar.gz (source distribution)
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util-linux-1.9.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-1.9.bin.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*. There are no binaries in /etc.
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The arrangement, as nearly as I can determine, conforms to the Linux
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Filesystem Standard, with no 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 1.9:
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1) Miscellaneous bug fixes by Dave Gentzel (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com) and
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Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl)
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2) tunelp has been added
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3) selection now allows the mouse pointer to wrap (this is off by default)
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(Thanks to Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl).)
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4) Many old versions have been removed, making the source distribution
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smaller.
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HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.8:
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1) bdflush is now installed as update (WARNING!).
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2) MAKEDEV was updated. This version uses /proc/devices.
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3) Minor corrections (thanks to Dave Gentzel).
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4) Nigel Gamble's lpcntl is included.
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HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.7:
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0) A small, static sln (ln substitute) and a small, static sync(1) are
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now included.
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1) The mkswap(8) man page was fixed (wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai
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Petzke))
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2) hostname and pwd are no longer installed -- they are in FSF's
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sh-util-1.10
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3) uuencode and uudecode are no longer installed -- they are in FSF's
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uuencode-1.0
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4) ed is no longer installed -- it is in FSF's ed-0.1
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5) The C version of sync was replaced by an assembly version (by Nick
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Holloway)
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6) setterm was updated to work with dosemu
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7) Various security holes were fixed (login, passwd, agetty, etc.)
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8) A few other random things were updated.
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9) Many 4.3BSD-reno (NET-2) utilities were replaced with the 4.4BSD-Lite
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versions.
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10) update has been removed. /sbin/update is now a link to /sbin/bdflush.
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11) syslogd moved form /sbin to /usr/sbin, to conform to the FSSTND.
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12) mount will use /proc/filesystems if no -t option is given (from
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Adam J. Richter (adam@adam.yggdrasil.com)).
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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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