From 1a06cbf4f60bd11654daab6ba572a2d4680b871d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sami Kerola Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:00:13 +0200 Subject: docs: clean up old readme files Removal of information which is simply wrong. Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola --- Documentation/poeigl.txt | 80 ------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 80 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/poeigl.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/poeigl.txt b/Documentation/poeigl.txt index 5d30ec581..00eaa7101 100644 --- a/Documentation/poeigl.txt +++ b/Documentation/poeigl.txt @@ -7,16 +7,6 @@ domainname, hostid, cage and mesg. Most of this software has been contributed by others, I basically just ported the things to Linux. -About installation: See the bottom of this file. Check the Makefile! -Be sure you know what you are doing! You may well be able to lock -yourself out from your machine. Especially: The init provided here -(simpleinit) is NOT a SYSV compatible init and the inittab format -is different. - -If you are uncertain whether you got the latest version, check out - - ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/ - Version 1.49 (20-Jun-97) Small patches for new util-linux distribution and glibc compat. PAM support in login.c by Erik Troan. @@ -484,32 +474,9 @@ login.c The login program. This is a portation of BSD login, first to HP-UX 8.0 by Michael Glad (glad@daimi.aau.dk), and to Linux (initially to 0.12) by me. -who.c A simple who(1) util. to list utmp. Done by me. - You may prefer the GNU who util. with more options - and features. - -hostname.c A hostname(1) command to get and set the hostname. I did - this too. - -domainname.c Like hostname, only reads out or sets the domainname. - agetty.c The getty program. From comp.sources.misc, by W.Z. Venema. Hacked a bit by me. -simpleinit.c A simple init program, written by me. Uses /etc/inittab - - A "kill -HUP" to init makes it re-read /etc/inittab. - A "kill -TSTP" to init makes it stop spawning gettys on the - ttys. A second "kill -TSTP" starts it again. - A kill -INT to init makes it attempt a reboot of the machine. - this works in connection with kernel support for softboot - when Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed. - - Init will start up in singleuser mode if /etc/singleboot - exists at boottime, or if it is given an argument of "single" - via eg. LILO. If /etc/securesingle exists it will ask for the - root password before starting single user. - write.c A write(1) command, used to pass messages between users at different terminals. This code doubles as code for a wall(1) command. Make a symlink: /usr/bin/wall -> @@ -518,56 +485,9 @@ write.c A write(1) command, used to pass messages between users mesg A tiny shellscript, so you can avoid that other people write to your shell. -users Another script that uses awk(1) and tr(1) to process the - output from who(1) into a one-liner. - If you don't have awk, but have Perl, this does the same: - - who | perl -ane 'print "$F[0] "'; echo "" - pathnames.h: Header. -param.h - Header, extended with getdtablesize() macro, should go - in /usr/include/sys - -Building. ---------- -A "make all" should do. At least it does for me. - -Installation: -------------- - -login should go in /bin, if you don't like this change - pathnames.h and recompile at least agetty. - -getty, init Put them in SBINDIR - -who, hostname, write, wall, mesg, users: - /usr/bin - -securetty login needs this in /etc, defines which ttys that root - can login on. This should *never* include ttys{1,2} - -inittab the simpleinit code needs this in /etc. Note that the syntax - of /etc/inittab has little to do with the syntax of a real - SysV inittab. Edit this one for your local setup. - -shells The chsh program will use this if it's placed in /etc. It - defines the valid shell-programs. Have one abs. path on - each line. - -You can also do a "make install" as root, but don't just do it because I -say so, check the Makefile first. - -"Make install" will install only the new binaries, and not motd, inittab, -securetty and issue. To install these configuration files, do a -"make Install". - -Getty requires a /dev/console to write errors to. I just made it a symlink -to /dev/tty1. Because of a bug in the tty driver this errorlogging may -cause the shell on tty1 to logout. - Getty will print the contents of /etc/issue if it's present before asking for username. Login will print the contents of /etc/motd after successful login. Login doesn't print /etc/motd, and doesn't check for mail if -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522