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- util-linux-2.4.tar.gz (source distribution)
- util-linux-2.4.bin.tar.gz (a.out 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-2.4.bin.Notes file *BEFORE* and *AFTER*
- 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
- system utilities that are not easily available anywhere elsewhere
- (e.g., mkfs.minix, mkswap, cfdisk, fdisk); others are BSD ports of
- common utilities that are not yet contained in any FSF package (e.g.,
- col); others are non-System-V alternatives to common utilities (e.g.,
- simpleinit, agetty, login, passwd).
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- The arrangement, as nearly as I can determine, conforms to the Linux
- Filesystem Structure, Interim Release 1.2, March 28, 1995, with *NO*
- exceptions. A copy of the standards document can be found at
- tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/docs/linux-standards/fsstnd/*.
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- Many people provided patches and suggestions. I deeply appreciate
- this.
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- This product includes software developed by the University of
- California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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- HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.4 (2.3 was never released):
- 0) Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net> is the interim maintainer
- while Rik Faith is working on PhD work.
- 1) login now makes the login tty mode 600 and places it in group "tty"
- 2) wall, and write will not write dangerous escape sequences
- 3) wall and write can be run setgid "tty". If util-linux is compiled for
- this option, "mesg y" will only set group write instead of group/other
- write.
- 4) fdisk and cfdisk have been patched with the latest llseek.c. Although I
- had a lot of bug reports about fdisk from util-linux-2.2, I was unable
- to reproduce any of the problems. Some of the problems appeared to be
- releated to a failure to reboot the machine after changing the partition
- table, and some may have been due to a specific kernel revision problem.
- However, this doesn't seem to account for all of the bug reports -- if
- this version gives you problem, please send as complete a bug report as
- possible.
- 5) chkdupexe from Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no)
- 6) ctrlaltdel now installs into /sbin instead of /usr/sbin
- 7) mkfs replacement from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
- 8) lpcntl removed. Use tunelp instead.
- 9) ksymoops from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
- 10) mkfs.minix now clears the first 512 bytes of the file system so that
- Minix disks won't be confused with MSDOS disks (Daniel Quinlan
- (quinlan@yggdrasil.com))
- 11) mkswap should now work on an Alpha running Linux
- 12) frag removed. See
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/defrag-0.6.tar.gz for the
- latest version.
- 13) mount patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
- (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
- 14) MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV-C updated to the latest versions.
- 15) Paths updated for FSSTND 1.2. This means that you may need to make
- some links. The links you need to make we system dependent. The
- ultimate goal is to rename /var/adm to /var/log and have a symbolic
- link from /var/adm to /var/log during the transition period. If you
- are running an ELF system, you probably won't have to do anything. The
- bottom line is that the following files must exist or be pointers to
- the old version (used internally by the a.out libraries):
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- New Old
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- /var/log/wtmp /var/adm/wtmp
- /var/log/lastlog /var/adm/lastlog
- /var/run/utmp /var/adm/utmp
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