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- readme file for tesche's bugfixes, 13th January 1993
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-
- There have been two bugs in the latest release of the init suite by S.R.Usher.
- As he told me yesterday, he has fixed them in his code, but because he is very
- busy at the moment he'll not release a new version soon, so meanwhile you may
- take my personal bugfixes:
-
- 1) There was a bug in login.c, which caused errors in the login registration.
- The /etc/utmp, /var/adm/wtmp and /var/adm/lastlog had to be writable for
- all users, not just for their owner 'root', otherwise they weren't
- accessible and no login registration was possible. Of course this was
- not what Stephen intended to do...
-
- 2) There was a bug in write.c, which made it impossible to use the program.
- It got aborted with 'stopped (tty output)' every time, because he catched
- the SIGTSTP signal. What he wanted to do was to catch the SIGTTOU signal
- and that's what I've changed.
-
- Maybe there're other bugs, so there's no warranty or whatsoever, just like
- Stephen says it in his docs:
-
- "This is still an early version of this software. As far as we can tell it
- will work, but, there are no guarantees as to it's usefullness or fittness
- for any purpose whatsoever."
-
- Torsten Scherer (tesche)
- Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet, Bielefeld, Germany, Europe, Earth
- e-mail: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- tesche@dave.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de
-
- for any other problems please contact:
-
- Stephen R. Usher (susher)
- e-mail: susher@earth.ox.ac.uk
- susher@uk.ac.ox.earth
-