util-linux 1.6: Miscellaneous utilities for Linux %n util-linux %v 1.6 %c gcc 2.5.8 %l libc 4.5.21 %b faith@cs.unc.edu %d Tue May 3 19:15:53 1994 %f ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils %t util-linux-1.6.tar.gz %w utils %% # These lines describe an automated build, please ignore them. %setup make %doc README.admutil README.agetty README.cal README.cfdisk README.col %doc README.fdisk README.fsck README.namei README.poeigl README.script %doc README.setserial README1.namei COPYING %doc util-linux-1.6.Announce util-linux-1.6.lsm cp -a $BUILDDIR/$NAME-$VERSION/example.files /usr/doc/$WHERE/$NAME-$VERSION * make install exit # The informative part of the notes file starts here: WARNING: THE PROGRAMS IN THIS SUITE DO *NOT* SUPPORT SHADOW PASSWORD FILES! WARNING: SOME BINARIES IN THIS SUITE AUTOMATICALLY INSTALL INTO /sbin! *READ* THE INFORMATION BELOW IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THIS! WARNING: WTMP HAS MOVED TO /var/adm/wtmp. *READ* THE INFORMATION BELOW IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THIS! WARNING: The agetty, simpleinit, login, passwd, and other programs in this package are *NOT* System V compliant. These utilities are meant to be used by people who build their own systems. If you are not a wizard, do *NOT* blindly install these utilities: they could prevent you from logging into your system. Have a boot floppy ready, especially if you don't know what you are doing. WARNING: The binary distribution was tarred using GNU TAR AND THE -S OPTION! This means that holes will be preserved, but that ONLY GNU TAR WILL WORK ON THE BINARY DISTRIBUTION (in fact, other, inferior, tar programs will fail silently). YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! WARNING: localtime and posixtime default to US/Eastern -- change these now. To install from Linux binary distribution: 1) Get binary distribution (util-linux-1.6.bin.tar.gz) from ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils or from tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries or from sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils/administration 2) cd / 3) gtar zpxvf util-linux-1.6.bin.tar.gz 4) *IF* you want to use agetty and simpleinit, then make softlinks from /sbin/init to simpleinit and from /sbin/getty to agetty, but make sure that your /etc/inittab is set up right (this is *NOT* the System V compatible init!), or you will be hosed. 5) Run zic -l and/or zic -p to set your timezone. The distribution is set up to use /usr/lib/zoneinfo/US/Eastern as the default. This was installed with "zic -l US/Eastern" 6) Remove all the old binaries from previous locations. To install from source: 1) Get source from: ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils/source/util-linux-1.6.tar.gz or from tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources or from sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils/administration 2) Untar util-linux-1.6.tar.gz in /usr/src 3) cd util-linux-1.6 4) wtmp and lastlog live in /var/adm/wtmp Most section 8 binaries live in /sbin. mount must live in /bin. If you want to change this, change the Makefile. The wtmp file is used by login, agetty (or your getty), simpleinit (or your init), shutdown, and last. Alternatives to the flags in the Makefile have *NOT* been tested -- USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. 5) make 6) make install (or make install.shadow if you don't want to overwrite chsh, login, newgrp, or passwd -- no other shadow support has been added) 7) If you want to use simpleinit and agetty, then make softlinks from /sbin/init to simpleinit and from /sbin/getty to agetty, but make sure that your /etc/inittab is set up right (this is *NOT* the System V compatible init!), or you will be hosed. If you are using the SysV init and/or some other getty, they you can keep using those. 8) Run zic -l and/or zic -p to set your timezone. The distribution is set up to use /usr/lib/zoneinfo/US/Eastern as the default. This was installed with "zic -l US/Eastern" 9) Remove all the old binaries from previous locations. 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. Notes: 0) This package is the union of my util-etc, util-bin, and util-usrbin packages. Trying to comply with the draft file system standard was too much of a headache when these utilities were all in different pacakges. 1) The clock program from the timesrc-1.2.tar.Z package is included. The rest of this distribution has been replaced by the ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov version. See below for details. Patches from Hamish Coleman (hamish@zot.apana.org.au) have been applied to the clock program, making it version 1.2a. See clock.c for details. 2) The time directory contains tzcode94e.tar.gz and tzdata94d.tar.gz from elsie.nci.nih.gov. 3) Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk) put together the admutil-1.9.tar.gz package. The following are from that collection: ctrlaltdel (by Peter Orbaek) shutdown (by Peter Orbaek, with new modifications by Stephen Tweedie and Rik Faith) passwd (by Peter Orbaek) newgrp (by Michael Haardt with modifications by Peter Orbaek) chsh (by Peter Orbaek) last (BSD 5.11 6/29/88) Port by Michael Haardt with changes by Peter Orbaek. (I made slight modifications to last.c, passwd.c, and shutdown.c.) 4) Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk) put together the poeigl-1.25.tar.gz package. The following are from that collection: agetty (by W.Z. Venema ) simpleinit (by Peter Orbaek) hostname (by Peter Orbaek) domainname (by Peter Orbaek) login (BSD 5.40 5/9/89) Ported to HP-UX by Michael Glad, ported to Linux by Peter Orbaek) Thanks to Christian von Roques (roques@juliet.ka.sub.org) who sent in several patches. These were forwarded to Peter. Thanks to bill@goshawk.lanl.gov for updates to simpleinit. 5) Jim Winstead Jr. (jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu) put together the system-0.98.tar.Z package. The following are from that collection: doshell (by Jim Wiegand, with modifications by Marcel Mol (marcel@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl)) fdformat (by Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch), with modifications by Marcel Mol (marcel@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl)) -- Actually, updated with a September 1992 version by Werner. frag (by Werner Almesberger (V1.0), with modifications by Steffen Zahn (V1.1), by Rob Hooft (V1.2), and by Steffen Zahn (szahn%masterix@emndev.siemens.co.at)) setfdprm (by Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)) update (by Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi), with modifications by Rick Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com)) sync (by Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)) ed.old (by Brian Beattie, Kees Bot, and others; with changes by W. Metzenthen) -- For utilb, this was edited to provide larger constants (4096 characters per line, etc.) which are needed by X11R5 for make depend. more (BSD 5.19 6/28/88) by Eric Shienbrood, with modifications by Geoff Peck and John Foderaro) kill (by Peter MacDonald) 6) Rick Sladkey put together the mount-0.99.6.tar.Z package, and Stephen Tweedie provided updates. The following are from that package (all appear to be by Doug Quale (quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu), with modifications by H. J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu) on 11/25/92; Rick Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com) in January 1993; and Stephen Tweedie on 8 October 1993: mount umount swapon This distribution mount now supports NFS stuff. I have modified the man pages. I have also added a small patch from Hamish Glen Coleman (t933093@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU) which restores the -o semantics. Updated with Rick Sladkey's mount-0.99.14.tar.gz package, and with extra patches from Rick. 7) The rdev program is original work by Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch), modified by Peter MacDonald and Stephen Tweedie. 8) I (Rik Faith) wrote: kbdrate clear reset (updated to call 'stty sane' first) look most of the man pages 9) Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi) released new versions of fsck.c, mkfs.c, and mkswap.c in February 1993. This fsck and mkfs support 14 *and* 30 character minux filesystems! fsck HAS BEEN RENAMED TO fsck.minix! TAKE NOTE! This change is for compatibility with the fsutil package. The return codes have also been fixed for compatibility with the fsutil package. fsck.minix and mkfs.minix have been updated by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), Scott Heavner (sdh@po.cwru.edu), and Dr. Wettstein (greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu). 10) David Engel (david@ods.com) put together the fsutil-1.8.tar.gz package, which contains a generic front-end for fsck and mkfs. This package has been included in this release. He also did lfconfig, which is from his ldso-1.3.tar.z package. 11) Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@stolaf.edu) re-released Rick Sladkey's setserial in January 1993, with changes by Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu). I think that Theodore also did extensive changes for version 2.01, I can't find any notes about this in the documentation. 12) I applied enhancments and bug fixes to the fdisk (by A. V. Le Blanc (LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk)) in Jim Winstead Jr.'s (jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu) system-0.98.tar.Z package. Owen (LeBlanc) then re-enhanced the version and added bug fixes. He also gave me a copy of the excellent documentation: see README.fdisk. I have replaced this old version with Owen's fdisk 1.5 release, with Kevin Martin's patches for DOS and OS/2 compatibility. I've called this version 1.5a. 13) Added ipcs and ipcrm from the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu on 3/15/93. I also took the ipc.info and ipc.texi files from that distribution. I wrote short man pages for the binaries. 14) The new dmesg program from Theodore Ts'o is also included, with a man page that I wrote, and changes from Rick Sladkey. 15) The complete selection-1.5 package, by Andrew Haylett , 17th June 1993, is included. Kernel patches are no longer necessary for modern kernels, but these were tiny so I left them in for historical reasons. The Makefile was modified for this distribution. With changes from Rick Sladkey. 16) A posix-compliant ed is now in ed.posix, and is used by default. See the README and source for authorship information and other credits, including The Regents of the University of California; Rodney Ruddock of the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario; Matt Bishop of Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; and Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. The code is based on B. W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger, SOFTWARE TOOLS IN PASCAL, Addison-Wesley, 1981. 17) Gordon Irlam (gordoni@cs.ua.oz.au) did setterm, which was adapted to Linux by Peter MacDonald and enhanced by Mika Liljeberg (liljeber@cs.Helsinki.FI). 18) Several utilities are from the BSD NET-2 (4.3bsd-reno) distribution: banner (BSD 4.3 6/1/90) cal (BSD 5.2 4/19/91) [See README.cal for algorithm details] col (BSD 5.3 2/2/91) [See README.col for comments, and differences other cols] colcrt (BSD 5.4 6/1/90) column (BSD 5.7 2/24/91) hexdump (BSD 5.5 6/1/90) [and, therefore, od] logger (BSD 6.15 3/1/91) renice (BSD 5.3 6/1/90) rev (BSD 5.2 3/21/92, with modifications for Linux by Charles Hannum (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) and Brian Koehmstedt (bpk@gnu.ai.mit.edu)) pwd (BSD 5.4 2/20/91) strings (BSD 5.10 5/23/91) syslogd (BSD 5.45 3/2/91) [with ttymsg; see below for changes] tsort (BSD 5.3 6/1/90) ul (BSD 5.7 2/2/91) uudecode (BSD 5.10 6/1/90) uuencode (BSD 5.9 6/1/90) wall (BSD 5.14 3/2/91) whereis (BSD 5.5 4/18/91) write (BSD 4.22 6/1/90) Most of the changes for syslogd come from Rick Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com), but I'd like to thank other people who sent in changes (which usually got forwarded to Rick): Carsten Paeth (calle@calle.in-berlin.de), Kaz Sasayama (kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp) Original NET-2 source is currently available at wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}. The only changes that where made to these sources were that MIN was ifdef'd out in display.c (which is for hexdump), that more reasonable paths were placed in the whereis program, and that SYSLOG_NAMES was defined in logger.c. These changes can be found by grep'ing for "linux" in the source file. Other patches have been applied as they became available. The best way to find out how the programs were patched is to get the original source and do a diff. It is far too much overhead for me to track these diffs individually. The getopt(3) from the NET-2 distribution is included, and is linked with BSD NET-2 programs that use getopt(3). The BSD getopt behaves differently from the standard GNU getopt. Please do *NOT* try to use the GNU getopt for programs which require BSD getopt, since this may change the program's behavior when a single '-' is given as an option. The man page for getopt(3) is included for reference in the source distribution, but is *NOT* installed in /usr/man/man3. Other changes that seemed significant: string.c needed a ':' after the 'n' in the getopt call. Here's a patch that was applied by hand (from jjc@jclark.com (James Clark)): *** cal.c~ Fri Jul 3 21:29:01 1992 --- cal.c Mon Jan 11 21:50:20 1993 *************** *** 199,204 **** --- 199,205 ---- for (col = 0, p = lineout; col < 7; col++, p += julian ? J_DAY_LEN : DAY_LEN) ascii_day(p, days[row * 7 + col]); + *p = '\0'; trim_trailing_spaces(lineout); (void)printf("%s\n", lineout); } 19) Rick Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com) ported: script (BSD 5.13 3/5/91) with a small patch from Harald Koenig (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de) to fixes the problem of script terminating unexpectedly. 20) Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@htsa.aha.nl, miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org) put together a sysvinit.tar.Z package. One utility was taken from that collection: mesg 21) MAKEDEV is Nick Holloway 's latest, version 1.4. 22) sln by Mike Parker and David MacKenzie (from Linux's libc) 23) bdflush 1.3, by Eric Youngdale. 24) getopt is from the NetBSD distribution on jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (/pub/public_domain_software/NetBSD/usr/src/usr.bin/getopt) 25) cfdisk is from Kevin Martin's cfdisk-0.7.tar.gz *ALPHA* distribution. %% * bin/arch * bin/dmesg * bin/domainname * bin/ed * bin/hostname * bin/kill * bin/login * bin/more * bin/mount * bin/pwd * bin/setserial * bin/sync * bin/umount * dev/MAKEDEV * etc/fdprm * sbin/agetty * sbin/cfdisk * sbin/clock * sbin/fastboot * sbin/fasthalt * sbin/fdisk * sbin/fsck * sbin/fsck.minix * sbin/halt * sbin/kbdrate * sbin/mkfs * sbin/mkfs.minix * sbin/mkswap * sbin/reboot * sbin/shutdown * sbin/simpleinit * sbin/sln * sbin/swapoff * sbin/swapon * sbin/syslogd * sbin/update * usr/bin/banner * usr/bin/cal * usr/bin/chsh * usr/bin/clear * usr/bin/col * usr/bin/colcrt * usr/bin/colrm * usr/bin/column * usr/bin/fdformat * usr/bin/getopt * usr/bin/hexdump * usr/bin/ipcrm * usr/bin/ipcs * usr/bin/last * usr/bin/logger * usr/bin/look * usr/bin/mesg * usr/bin/namei * usr/bin/newgrp * usr/bin/passwd * usr/bin/ramsize * usr/bin/rdev * usr/bin/renice * usr/bin/reset * usr/bin/rev * usr/bin/rootflags * usr/bin/script * usr/bin/selection * usr/bin/setfdprm * usr/bin/setsid * usr/bin/setterm * usr/bin/strings * usr/bin/swapdev * usr/bin/tsort * usr/bin/ul * usr/bin/uudecode * usr/bin/uuencode * usr/bin/vidmode * usr/bin/wall * usr/bin/whereis * usr/bin/write * usr/sbin/zdump * usr/sbin/zic * usr/info/ipc.info * usr/lib/more.help * usr/lib/zoneinfo * usr/man/man1/arch.1 * usr/man/man1/cal.1 * usr/man/man1/chsh.1 * usr/man/man1/clear.1 * usr/man/man1/col.1 * usr/man/man1/colcrt.1 * usr/man/man1/colrm.1 * usr/man/man1/column.1 * usr/man/man1/domainname.1 * usr/man/man1/ed.1 * usr/man/man1/getopt.1 * usr/man/man1/hexdump.1 * usr/man/man1/hostname.1 * usr/man/man1/kill.1 * usr/man/man1/last.1 * usr/man/man1/logger.1 * usr/man/man1/login.1 * usr/man/man1/look.1 * usr/man/man1/mesg.1 * usr/man/man1/more.1 * usr/man/man1/namei.1 * usr/man/man1/newgrp.1 * usr/man/man1/passwd.1 * usr/man/man1/pwd.1 * usr/man/man1/reset.1 * usr/man/man1/rev.1 * usr/man/man1/script.1 * usr/man/man1/selection.1 * usr/man/man1/setterm.1 * usr/man/man1/strings.1 * usr/man/man1/tsort.1 * usr/man/man1/ul.1 * usr/man/man1/uudecode.1 * usr/man/man1/uuencode.1 * usr/man/man1/wall.1 * usr/man/man1/whereis.1 * usr/man/man1/write.1 * usr/man/man5/fstab.5 * usr/man/man5/nfs.5 * usr/man/man5/syslog.conf.5 * usr/man/man5/tzfile.5 * usr/man/man5/uuencode.5 * usr/man/man6/banner.6 * usr/man/man8/agetty.8 * usr/man/man8/chroot.8 * usr/man/man8/cfdisk.8 * usr/man/man8/clock.8 * usr/man/man8/ctrlaltdel.8 * usr/man/man8/dmesg.8 * usr/man/man8/fastboot.8 * usr/man/man8/fasthalt.8 * usr/man/man8/fdformat.8 * usr/man/man8/fdisk.8 * usr/man/man8/frag.8 * usr/man/man8/fsck.8 * usr/man/man8/fsck.minix.8 * usr/man/man8/halt.8 * usr/man/man8/ipcrm.8 * usr/man/man8/ipcs.8 * usr/man/man8/kbdrate.8 * usr/man/man8/mkfs.8 * usr/man/man8/mkfs.minix.8 * usr/man/man8/mkswap.8 * usr/man/man8/mount.8 * usr/man/man8/ramsize.8 * usr/man/man8/rdev.8 * usr/man/man8/reboot.8 * usr/man/man8/renice.8 * usr/man/man8/rootflags.8 * usr/man/man8/setfdprm.8 * usr/man/man8/setserial.8 * usr/man/man8/setsid.8 * usr/man/man8/shutdown.8 * usr/man/man8/simpleinit.8 * usr/man/man8/swapdev.8 * usr/man/man8/swapoff.8 * usr/man/man8/swapon.8 * usr/man/man8/sync.8 * usr/man/man8/syslogd.8 * usr/man/man8/umount.8 * usr/man/man8/update.8 * usr/man/man8/vidmode.8 * usr/man/man8/zdump.8 * usr/man/man8/zic.8 * usr/sbin/chroot * usr/sbin/ctrlaltdel * usr/sbin/frag