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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!daimi!poe
- From: poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Announcement: poeigl 1.5 and admutils 1.2 available
- Keywords: init getty login shutdown
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.122703.17179@daimi.aau.dk>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 12:27:03 GMT
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Lines: 40
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- This is an announcement of the availability of version 1.5 of the poeigl
- package, and version 1.2 of the admutil package.
-
- Both of the new packages just contains bugfixed versions of the programs
- in the previous packages, and no new features have been added.
-
- Acknowledgements:
- -----------------
- d88-jwn@nada.kth.se made me avare of a fault in passwd.c concerning digits
- in passwords.
-
- hyvatti@cc.helsinki.fi (Jaakko Hyvatti) provided a fix for a nasty bug in
- login.c, concerning unknown usernames and secure terminals.
-
- I forgot who made me avare of the fact that shutdown would hang if /etc/utmp
- somehow was corrupted. This should not happen anymore.
-
- As always, the packages contains only sourcecode. The binaries can be built
- under Linux 0.97 or later with at least gcc-2.2.2
-
- To those that do not already know, the poeigl package contains:
-
- init, getty, login, hostname, mesg, users, who, write
-
- and admutils contains:
-
- chsh, ctrlaltdel, init, last, newgrp, passwd, shutdown, reboot,
- halt, su
-
- I have put the packages out for anon ftp at:
-
- ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/Linux-source
- tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/<whereever tytso puts them>
- nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/<whereever arl puts them>
-
- - Peter. <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
-
- --
- Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
- Hasle Ringvej 122, DK-8200 Aarhus N, DENMARK
-