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- util-linux-1.6.tar.gz (source distribution)
- 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*
- 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); 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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- This distribution is a superset of my previous distributions:
- util-etc*, util-bin*, and util-usrbin*. With this distribution, the
- location of many files have changed. Notably, there are no binaries in
- /etc. Binaries that were in /etc have been moved to /sbin, /bin,
- /usr/sbin, and /usr/bin. The arrangement, as nearly as I can
- determine, conforms to the Linux Filesystem Standard, with no
- exceptions:
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- Many people provided patches and suggestions. I deeply appreciate
- 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!
- 2) Eric Youngdale's bdflush
- 3) sln: a statically linked (and very stupid) ln
- 4) getopt(1)
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- Deletions:
- 1) doshell hasn't been needed for years (since before 0.98 when getty
- didn't exist). I have deleted it.
- 2) To avoid horrible confusion, ldd and ldconfig have been removed.
- Find them in David Engel's ldso package.
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- Updates:
- 1) Softlinks are now relative.
- 2) The backspace problem with agetty is fixed.
- 3) "maintenance" is now spelled correctly.
- 4) The example files have been updated.
- 5) Per Kang-Jin Lee's (lee@tengu.in-berlin.de) suggestion, there is
- now an "install.shadow" target that will *NOT* overwrite chsh,
- login, newgrp, and passwd. There is no other shadow password
- support.
- 6) Timezone support totally updated (zic and zdump moved to /usr/sbin)
- 7) mount man page updated per Remy Card (Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr)
- 8) MAKEDEV has been updated
- 9) sync is now statically linked
- 10) fdisk 1.5 was patched to support DOS and OS/2 partitions.
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