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From: Rik Faith <fa...@cs.unc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: util-linux-1.5.{bin,src}.tar.gz available
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 21 Jan 1994 00:00:19 +0200
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Keywords: Linux Utilities
util-linux-1.5.src.tar.gz
util-linux-1.5.bin.tar.gz
WARNING: THIS COLLECTION DOES *NOT* SUPPORT SHADOW PASSWORDS.
WARNING: THIS COLLECTION DOES *NOT* SUPPORT SYSTEM V INITTAB.
WARNING: MANY FILES HAVE CHANGED POSITION -- IF YOU ARE NOT CAREFUL,
YOU AND YOUR SYSTEM WILL BE HOSED.
WARNING: DO *NOT* INSTALL WITHOUT THINKING.
WARNING: Read the util-linux-1.5.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); 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).
Thanks, again, to Rick Sladkey for more patches. Note the new mount
package, which now supports the ability of normal users to mount file
systems in a secure mannner.
Many people provided patches and suggestions. I deeply appreciate
this.
Man pages are provided for all of the programs. The mount(8) man page
has been extensively updated for util-linux-1.1, and includes more
documentation on file-system specific options.
Dr. Wettstein has provided a new mkfs.minix and fsck.minix that work
with the file system validity flag that has appeared in recent 0.99.14
ALPHA kernels. THESE VERSIONS MAY NOT WORK WITH PLAIN 0.99.14!
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Title = util-linux: Miscellaneous utilities for Linux
Version = 1.5
Desc1 = agetty arch banner cal chroot chsh clear clock col colcrt
Desc2 = colrm column ctrlaltdel dmesg domainname fdformat fdisk frag
Desc3 = fsck fsck.minix hexdump hostname ipcrm ipcs kbdrate kill
Desc4 = last ldconfig ldd logger login look mesg mkfs.minix
Desc5 = mkswap more mount newgrp passwd pwd rdev renice reset rev
Desc6 = script selection setfdprm setfdprm setserial setserial
Desc7 = setsid setterm shutdown simpleinit strings swapoff swapon
Desc8 = sync syslogd tsort ul umount update uudecode uuencode wall
Desc9 = whereis write zdump zic zones
Author = Several
Maintainer = Rik Faith
MaintEmail = fa...@cs.unc.edu
Site1 = ftp.cs.unc.edu
Path1 = /pub/faith/linux/utils
File1 = util-linux-1.5.src.tar.gz util-linux-1.5.bin.tar.gz
FileSize1 = 412k for source distribution and 316k for binary distirbution
Site2 = tsx-11.mit.edu
Path2 = /pub/linux/{sources,binaries}/sbin
Site3 = sunsite.unc.edu
Path3 = /pub/Linux/system/Admin
Required1 = Linux 0.99.14 (tested with 14p), libc 4.5.8
CopyPolicy1 = GPL and Regents of the University of California
Entered = Mon Jan 17 21:38:07 1994
EnteredBy = Rik Faith
CheckedEmail = fa...@cs.unc.edu
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From: Rik Faith <fa...@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: util-linux-1.10 now available
Message-ID: <ann-21380.779984529@cs.cornell.edu>
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Keywords: utilities for linux, mount, mkfs, syslogd, clock, zoneinfo, etc.
Sender: m...@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Reply-To: Rik Faith <fa...@cs.unc.edu>
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 14:22:43 GMT
Approved: linux-annou...@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
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util-linux-1.10.tar.gz (source distribution)
util-linux-1.10.bin.tar.gz (binary 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-1.10.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); 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).
This distribution is a superset of my previous distributions:
util-etc*, util-bin*, and util-usrbin*. There are no binaries in /etc.
The arrangement, as nearly as I can determine, conforms to the Linux
Filesystem Standard, with no exceptions.
Many people provided patches and suggestions. I deeply appreciate
this.
HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.10:
1) domainname is no longer installed. The source for domainname is still
included in the source distribution, as is the hostname-1.5 package, by
Peter Tobias (tob...@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de), which contains a new
hostname and a dnsdomainname program. If you have any questions read
the documentation in hostname-1.5 and NetKit-A.
2) Alan Modra (a...@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au) updated syslogd and clock.
3) Joe Ragland (j...@interpath.net) updated whereis.1
4) Kai Petzke (w...@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de) updated setserial.8
5) Michael K. Johnson (johns...@nigel.vnet.net) updated tunelp
6) Carl Christofferson (cch...@connected.com) updated col
7) bjdo...@xs4all.nl updated rev
8) Lots of updates to mount: without -t, (null) is no longer entered in
mtab; readonly file systems are now remounted readonly if they weren't
the first time; you can mount loop devices; umount will send RPC calls
to the NFS server.
9) agetty, login, hostid updated.
HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.9:
1) Miscellaneous bug fixes by Dave Gentzel (gent...@nova.enet.dec.com) and
Sander van Malssen (s...@kozmix.hacktic.nl)
2) tunelp has been added
3) selection now allows the mouse pointer to wrap (this is off by default)
(Thanks to Sander van Malssen (s...@kozmix.hacktic.nl).)
4) Many old versions have been removed, making the source distribution
smaller.
HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.8:
1) bdflush is now installed as update (WARNING!).
2) MAKEDEV was updated. This version uses /proc/devices.
3) Minor corrections (thanks to Dave Gentzel).
4) Nigel Gamble's lpcntl is included.
See the included util-linux-1.10.bin.Notes file for HIGHLIGHTS of
previous versions.
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Title = util-linux: Miscellaneous utilities for Linux
Version = 1.10
Desc1 = agetty arch banner cal cfdisk chroot chsh clear clock col
Desc2 = colcrt colrm column ctrlaltdel ddate dmesg dsplit
Desc3 = fdformat fdisk frag fsck fsck.minix getopt hexdump hostname
Desc4 = ipcrm ipcs kbdrate kill last logger login look mesg
Desc5 = mkfs.minix mkswap more mount namei newgrp passwd pwd rdev
Desc6 = renice reset rev script selection setfdprm setfdprm setserial
Desc7 = setsid setterm shutdown simpleinit strings swapoff swapon
Desc8 = sync syslogd tsort tunelp ul umount update_state wall
Desc9 = whereis write zdump zic zones
Author = Several
Maintainer = Rik Faith
MaintEmail = fa...@cs.unc.edu
Site1 = ftp.cs.unc.edu
Path1 = /pub/faith/linux/utils
File1 = util-linux-1.10.tar.gz util-linux-1.10.bin.tar.gz
FileSize1 = 550k for source distribution and 380k for binary distirbution
Site2 = tsx-11.mit.edu
Path2 = /pub/linux/packages/utils
Site3 = sunsite.unc.edu
Path3 = /pub/Linux/system/Misc
Required1 = Linux 1.1.19, libc 4.5.26, GNU tar
CopyPolicy1 = GPL and Regents of the University of California
Entered = Thu Sep 15 09:48:19 1994
EnteredBy = Rik Faith
CheckedEmail = fa...@cs.unc.edu
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