produced by bootlogd. The output is displayed cleaned up so there
are no control characters. This avoids the need to use sed or related
tools to try to clean up the contents of the log.
This information can be read by the "runlevel" command as well as "halt"
and "reboot". Having the information logged in /var/run/runlevel as
well as the utmp file means systems without utmp (like those running
the musl C library) can still check the current runlevel. This is
useful when running halt/reboot as these programs want to check the
runlevel.
Updated the changelog, and manual pages for halt and runlevel.
from /var/run/runlevel. Added test code to runlevel.c to confirm it works.
Will use this to save/restore runlevel on systems where utmp is not
available.
patch was supplied by Robert Millan from Debian. FreeBSD apparently does not
like named piped in /dev, so we move it to /run for better cross-platform
compatibility.
/dev/console if but only if /dev/console is used. On Linux this can
be more than one device, e.g. a serial line as well as a virtual
console as well as a simple printer.
is specified by /etc/pam.d/init
* Move utmp/wtmp before the execvp() in spawn() to be sure to
use the correct pid even on a controlling tty
* Remaining problem is that the pid of the second fork() for
getting a controlling tty isn't that reported by spawn()
* Re-enable writting utmp/wtmp for boot scripts
* Provide a simply /etc/pam.d/init as without it will not work (sigh!)
* Add helper program fstab-decode to make it easier to handle
/etc/mtab content. Patch by Miloslav Trmac and Fedora.
* Add fix for Debian bug #335023 - Make sure TERM is set on FreeBSD.
* Add fix for Debian bug #374038 - Make it clear that shutdown -c can
only cancel a waiting shutdown, not an active one.
* Add not to pidof manual page about the use of readlink(2). Patch by
Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
* Add changes for Debian bug #68621 - Add PAM support for programs spawned
by init on the console like sulogin. Based on patch by Topi Miettinen.
domain names in the output. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
* Add a manual page for utmpdump as this tool is sometimes
very useful even if not intended for normal use.
* Use paths.h macros for wall
* Change path "/etc/powerstatus" to "/var/run/powerstatus"
place of setting the default childhandler within spawn().
Make sure that newline is printed out for last(1) even
if an utmp record entry is truncated.
Check if utmp not only exists but is writable and delay
writing out of the utmp runlevel record if utmp is not writable.
Be able to find libcrypt also on 64 bit based architectures.
