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Linux Utilities collection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Jul 1 07:26:40 1995
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 12:34:10 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
Reply-To: johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net
Subject: Linux Utilities collection
Keywords: utilities linux util-linux
From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
Version 2.4 of the util-linux collection has been released to
both tsx-11.mit.edu and sunsite.unc.edu, and are now available
on both sites.
As of this release, I have (probably temporarily) taken over
maintenance from Rik Faith, who is trying to complete his
PhD work.
Any bug reports should be addressed to me, and not to Rik.
I will not be releasing binary versions of this package.
If you use a distribution of Linux, your distributor is
responsible for upgrading you. If you know enough to be
installing files from the util-linux package yourself, you
are fully capable of compiling them yourself as well.
util-linux-2.4.tar.gz (source 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-2.4.bin.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.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).
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/*.
Many people provided patches and suggestions. I deeply appreciate
this.
This product includes software developed by the University of
California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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):
New Old
/var/log/wtmp /var/adm/wtmp
/var/log/lastlog /var/adm/lastlog
/var/run/utmp /var/adm/utmp
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