Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
From: Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: util-linux-1.10 now available
Message-ID: <ann-21380.779984529@cs.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 14:22:43 GMT
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)

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 (tobias@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 (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au) updated syslogd and clock.
    3) Joe Ragland (jrr@interpath.net) updated whereis.1
    4) Kai Petzke (wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de) updated setserial.8
    5) Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net) updated tunelp
    6) Carl Christofferson (cchris@connected.com) updated col
    7) bjdouma@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 (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com) and
       Sander van Malssen (svm@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 (svm@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.

Begin2
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   = faith@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 = faith@cs.unc.edu
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