util-linux 2.5
WARNING: THE PROGRAMS IN THIS SUITE DO *NOT* SUPPORT SHADOW PASSWORD FILES!
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: 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.
To install from source:
1) Get source distribution (see the .lsm file for locations)
2) Untar util-linux-2.5.tar.gz in /usr/src
3) cd util-linux-2.5
4) Edit MCONFIG
5) make
Note that libc 4.5.26 headers need a small patch to be used with
recent kernels. See the file uio.h-diff for the patch, if necessary.
6) make install
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) Remove all the old binaries from previous locations.
9) See the HIGHLIGHTS below for links you need to make for the new FSSTND
compliance.
HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.5:
0) Nicolai Langfeldt is taking over maintenance of util-linux, with the
help of a few others (Michael K. Johnson, Andries Brouwer, and Rik
Faith).
PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no
1) The following packages have been removed. Please use the up-to-date,
canonical versions of these packages from the listed places:
timezone support (/usr/lib/zoneinfo, libz.a, zic, zdump):
elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzcode95d.tar.gz
elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzdata95h.tar.gz
MAKEDEV-C:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-C-1.5.tar.gz
MAKEDEV:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-2.2.tar.gz
md5sum:
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils-1.3.tar.gz
[The GNU version is now compatible with the Plumb/Lankester
version.]
ksymoops:
Now bundled with the kernel in linux/scripts.
2) update_state has been removed
3) fdisk now supports NetBSD disklabels courtesy of Bernhard Fastenrath
<fasten@athene.informatik.uni-bonn.de> (and > 8GB disks, courtesy of
Andries Brouwer)
4) mount improved -- many patches from Andries Brouwer for greatly improved
error reporting
5) ddate, chkdupexe, and other programs have been improved and bug fixed
6) util-linux is now a source-only distribution
7) mcookie generates better random numbers and will use /dev/random or
/dev/audio if available
8) chfn, chsh, passwd, and vipw have been updated with security patches
from Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>. Now, they all use the same
locking, and several security holes have been patched. Further, chsh
and chfn can be configured at compile time to require a password before
updates and chsh can be configured to only use shells from /etc/shells.
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
HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.2:
1) This is primarily a quick bug-fix release for version 2.1
2) mkfs wrapper added back in, since e2fsprogs only supplies an fsck wrapper
3) selection removed, since someone appears to be maintaining it now. See
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/kernel/patches/console for recent sources.
For the time being, I'm keeping a copy in the historic subdirectory of
util-linux. A "make install" should work find from within that
directory.
4) Note that other floppy utilities are available from:
ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.1:
1) Directory structure rearrange, with configuration support for those who
use shadow passwords and System V init (no support is provided for these
things, but your utilities won't get overwritten if you do a "make
install" after you properly edit MCONFIG).
2) fdisk and cfdisk should work as expected with 2GB+ disk drives
3) As usual, lots of stuff was updated and added, including mount, vipw,
readprofile
4) Some stuff was also deleted, and can now be found elsewhere:
fsck wrapper: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/ext2fs/e2fsprogs*
pwd, su: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sh-utils*
ed: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ed*
od: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils*
uudecode/uuencode: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sharutils*
bdflush/update: ftp.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/v1.1/bdflush*
PARTIAL HISTORY OF UTIL-LINUX:
bsd:
Nothing in this directory gets installed, but some BSD programs need
this support:
err.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
err.h: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/2/93
getopt.c: 4.13 (Berkeley) 2/23/91
pathnames.h: 5.3 (Berkeley) 5/9/89 with extensive modifications for
Linux
disk-utils:
cfdisk: 0.8 BETA (>2GB) from Kevin E. Martin (martin@cs.unc.edu) with
modifications for disks > 2GB.
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/users/martin/linux/cfdisk-0.8.tar.gz
fdformat: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch), with
modifications by Marcel Mol (marcel@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl)).
Later, updated with a September 1992 version by Werner.
fdisk: A. V. Le Blanc (LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk) fdisk 1.5 release, with
patched from Kevin Martin for DOS and OS/2 compatibility (1.5a);
Rik Faith (1.5b, 2.0).
fsck.minix, mkfs.minix: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by: Rik
Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), Scott Heavner
(sdh@po.cwru.edu), Dr. Wettstein
(greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu), Daniel
Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
mkfs: David Engel (david@ods.com) and Fred N. van Kempen
(waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG)
Version 1.9 from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
mkswap: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by Mike Jagdis
(jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk. )
Version for Alpha from
cage.cs.arizona.edu:/pub/davidm/linux/mkswap-axp-950503.tar.gz
setfdprm: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
Note that more floppy utilities are available from:
ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
llseek.c: from Remy Card's e2fsprogs-0.5b.tar.gz (21Mar95 version) from:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2
games:
banner: (8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94)
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
login-utils:
agetty: W. Z. Venema, ported by Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>.
ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
chfn: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
chsh: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
last: 5.11 w/year (Berkeley) 6/29/88; Port by Michael Haardt with
changes by Peter Orbaek.
ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
login: 5.40 (Berkeley) 5/9/89; with ports by Michael Glad and Peter Orbaek
ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
mesg: 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/21/94
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
newgrp: Michael Haardt, with modifications by Peter Orbaek.
ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
passwd: Peter Orbaek, with yp modifications by Alvaro Martinez
Echevarria (alvaro@enano.etsit.upm.es)
ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
shutdown: Peter Orbaek, with new modifications by Stephen Tweedie, Rik
Faith, and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com).
ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
simpleinit: Peter Orbaek
ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
vipw: 5.16 (Berkeley) 3/3/91, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
<kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU>
wall: 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93 (With changes so that damaging escape
sequences cannot be sent.
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
misc-utils:
cal: 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/2/94, with modifications by Rik Faith and
Hein@student.tu-clausthal.de (Jochen Hein).
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
chkdupexe: Version 1.2 from "Nicolai Langfeldt" <janl@ifi.uio.no>
clear: Rik Faith
ddate: Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson aka mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu,
with modifications by Lee Harvey Oswald Smith, K.S.C. and
substantial updates from Rev. Bro. Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP
domainname: Peter Orbaek
ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
dsplit: David Arnstein (arnstein@netcom.com)
gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume40/dsplit
getopt (getoptprog): jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu:
/pub/public_domain_software/NetBSD/usr/src/usr.bin/getopt
hostid: Mitch DSouza (m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
hostname/dnsdomainname: Peter Tobias <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>
This version (1.6) should also be available soon in:
nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/net-source/base/NetKit-A*
kill: BSD version, modified by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
logger: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
look.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
mcookie: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
md5sum: Branki Lankester and Colin Plumb. The MD5 message-digest
algorithm is in the Public Domain. This implementation
calculates message-digest information only, and can NOT be used
for encryption. Therefore it is exportable from the USA.
Original sources in the MIT version of PGP 2.6.2.
namei: Roger S. Southwick, with modifications by Steve Tell.
reset: Rik Faith
script: 5.13 (Berkeley) 3/5/91, with modifications by Rick Sladkey
(jrs@world.std.com), Harald Koenig
(koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de).
setterm: Gordon Irlam (gordoni@cs.ua.oz.au), with modifications by
Peter MacDonald, Mika Liljeberg (liljeber@cs.Helsinki.FI),
John Walder (j-walder@uiuc.edu) [for dosemu].
tsort: 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
whereis: 5.5 (Berkeley) 4/18/91
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
write: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
(kashmir@umiacs.umd.edu). With changes so that damaging escape
sequences cannot be sent.
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
mount:
mount, umount, swapon
Rick Sladkey put together the mount-0.99.6.tar.Z package, and Stephen
Tweedie provided updates. The utilities were originally 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
<sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> on 8 October 1993. 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. Adam J. Richter allowed -t option to be
optional. Patrick J. Volkerding (volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu) and
Mitchum DSouza both provided patches that fixed the (null) problem when
not using -t. Mitchum DSouza
(mitch@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk) added support for loop
device mounts. Sebastian Lederer
(lederer@next-pc.informatik.uni-bonn.de) added support for sending an
unmount RPC call to the server when an NFS-filesystem is unmounted.
Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl) added support for remounting
readonly file systems readonly. Mike Grupenhoff
<kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU> added a probe of the superblock for the type
before /proc/filesystems is checked. Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl fixed up
error reporting.
Updated with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
(quinlan@yggdrasil.com). And more patches from Andries and others.
historic/selection: The complete selection-1.5 package, by Andrew Haylett
<ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk>, 17th June 1993, is included in the historic tree.
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.
sys-utils:
arch: Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
chroot: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
clock: Originally from the timesrc-1.2.tar.Z package, Charles Hedrick,
hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu (V1.0); Rob Hooft, hooft@chem.ruu.nl
(V1.1); Harald Koenig (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
(V1.2). With additional changes: Hamish Coleman
(hamish@zot.apana.org.au) (V1.2a); Alan Modra
(alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au (V1.3, V1.4).
ctrlaltdel: Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
cytune: Nick Simicish (njs@scifi.emi.net) and Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
dmesg: Theodore Ts'o (tytso@athena.mit.edu); Rick Sladkey
(jrs@world.std.com)
ipcrm: From the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu on 3/15/93. ipc.info and ipc.texi
are also from that distribution.
ipcs: Also from the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu, with patches from Mike Jagdis
(jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk)
kbdrate: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), with patches from
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and John Bowman
(bowman@hagar.ph.utexas.edu)
ksymoops: 1.7 from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
rdev: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger), with
modifications from Peter MacDonald, Stephen Tweedie
(sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk), and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com)
readprofile: Alessandro Rubini
renice: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
setserial: 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. However, Theodore
Ts'o (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) released version 2.10, and that
is now included.
setsid: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
sln: Mike Parker and David MacKenzie (from Linux's libc)
sync: Nick Holloway, with thanks to James Bonfield
tunelp: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net)
syslogd:
5.45 (Berkeley) 3/2/91
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) and Kaz Sasayama (kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp).
text-utils:
col: 5.3 (Berkeley) 2/2/91; with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
and Carl Christofferson (cchris@connected.com)
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
colcrt: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 (Bill Joy)
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
colrm: 5.4 (Berkeley) 6/1/90 (Jeff Schriebman)
column: 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
hexdump: 5.5 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
more: 5.19 (Berkeley) 6/29/88 (Eric Shienbrood, Geoff Peck, John Foderaro)
rev: 5.2 (Berkeley) 3/21/92; with modifications by Charles Hannum
(mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu), Brian Koehmstedt (bpk@gnu.ai.mit.edu),
bjdouma@xs4all.nl
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
strings: 5.10 (Berkeley) 5/23/91; with patches from Vitor Duarte
<vad@fct.unl.pt>
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
ul: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
