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util-linux-1.6.tar.gz (source distribution)
util-linux-1.6.bin.tar.gz (binary distribution)
WARNING: THIS COLLECTION DOES *NOT* SUPPORT SHADOW PASSWORDS.
WARNING: THIS COLLECTION DOES *NOT* SUPPORT SYSTEM V INITTAB.
WARNING: USE GNU TAR -- OTHER TARS WILL FAIL SILENTLY!
WARNING: DO *NOT* INSTALL WITHOUT THINKING.
WARNING: Read the util-linux-1.6.Notes file *BEFORE* and *AFTER*
installation: there are a few links you must make by hand.
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).
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:
Many people provided patches and suggestions. I deeply appreciate
this.
HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.6:
Additions:
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)
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.
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.