============================================================================== NEWS ============================================================================== 1.9 (2014-04-21) ---------------- * Bug fixes, code cleanup * Add support for an include directive to .conf files * Fallback to ``/bin/sh`` if user forgets tty setting * Handle ``SIGHUP`` from service callback properly when switching runlevel * Initial support for restarting lost services during ``norespwan`` * Misc. major (memleak) and minor fixes and additions to libite/lite.h 1.8 (2013-06-07) ---------------- * Support for runlevels, with a bootstrap runlevel 'S' * Support for saving previous and current runlevel to UTMP * Support for new finit.conf commands: run, task, and runlevel * Support for tty and console commands in finit.conf, like services but for launching multiple getty logins * New tty plugin to monitor TTYs coming and going, like USB TTYs * Bugfixes to libite 1.7 (2012-10-08) ---------------- * Show __FILE__ in _d() debug messages, useful for plugins with similarily named callbacks. Also, only in debug mode anyway * Make sure to cleanup recorded PID when a service is lost. Required by service plugins for their callbacks to work. * Bugfix: Do not free() static string in finit.conf parser * Only clear screen when in verbose mode. Maybe this should be removed altogether? 1.6 (2012-10-06) ---------------- * Skip . and .. in plugin loader and display error on failed plugins * Support for overriding /etc/finit.d with "runparts DIR" in finit.conf * Revoke support for starting services not starting with a slash. * Prevent endless restart of non-existing services in finit.conf * Support for sysvinit style startstop scripts in /etc/finit.d * Minor fix to alsa-utils plugin to silence on non-existing cards 1.5 (2012-10-03) ---------------- * Use bootmisc plugin to setup standard FHS 2.3 structure in /var * Added FLOG_WARN() syslog macro, for plugins * Add plugin dependency resolver. Checks plugin_t for .depends 1.4 (2012-10-02) ---------------- * Fix I/O plugin watcher and load plugins earlier for a new hook * Start refactoring helpers.c into a libite.so (-lite). This means other user space applications/daemons can make use of the neat toolbox available in finit * Use short-form -s/-w -u to work with BusyBox hwclock as well * Use RTLD_GLOBAL flag to tell dynamic loader to load dependent .so files as well. Lets other plugins use global symbols. * Greatly simplify svc hook for external plugins and cleanup plugin API. * And more... see the GIT log for more details. 1.3 (2012-09-28) ---------------- * Cleanup public plugin API a bit and add new pid/pidfile funcs * Add plugin hook to end of service startup * Remove finit.h from svc.h, plugins should not need this. * Move utility macros etc. to helpers.h * Make finit.h daemon internal, only * Move defines of FIFO, conf and rcS.d to Makefile => correct paths * Add support for installing required headers in system include dir * Better support for distributions and packagers with install-exec, install-data, and install-dev targets in Makefile. Useful if you want to call targets with different $DESTDIR! * Makefile fixes for installation, paths encoded wrong * Strip binaries + .so files, support for $(CROSS) toolchain strip * Default install is now to /sbin/finit and /usr/ * Note change in $PLUGIN_DIR environemnt variable to $plugindir 1.2 (2012-09-27) ---------------- * Fix installation paths encoded in finit binary * Update README with section on building and enviroment variables 1.1 (2012-09-27) ---------------- * Build fixes for ARM eabi/uClibc * Rename signal.[ch]-->sig.[ch] to avoid name clash w/ system headers 1.0 (2012-09-26) ---------------- * New plugin based system for all odd extensions * New service monitor that restarts services if they die * New maintainer at GitHub http://github.com/troglobit/finit * Add standard LICENSE and AUTHORS files * New focus: embedded systems and small headless servers 0.6 (2010-06-14) ---------------- * don't start consolekit manually, dbus starts it (rtp) * unmount all filesystems before rebooting * disable USE_VAR_RUN_RESOLVCONF for Mandriva * unset terminal type in Mandriva before running X * remove extra sleep in finit-alt before calling services.sh (caio) 0.5 (2008-08-21) ---------------- * add option to start dbus and consolekit before the X server * finit-alt listens to /dev/initctl to work with reboot(8) (smurfy) * write runlevel to utmp, needed by Printerdrake (Pascal Terjan) * fix ownership of /var/run/utmp (reported by Pascal Terjan) * remove obsolete code to load AGP drivers * conditional build of /etc/resolveconf/run support * add support to /var/run/resolvconf in Mandriva (blino) O.4 (2008-05-16) ---------------- * default username for finit-alt configurable in Makefile * create loopback device node in finit-alt (for squashfs) * add option to use built-in run-parts instead of /bin/run-parts * ignore signal instead of setting to an empty handler (Metalshark) * handle pam_console permissions in finit-alt for Mandriva * add services.sh example and nash-hotplug patch for Mandriva * mount /proc/bus/usb in Mandriva * add runtime debug to finit-alt if finit_debug parameter is specified * read configuration from /etc/finit.conf * run getty with openvt on the virtual terminal 0.3 (2008-02-23) ---------------- * Change poweroff method to reboot(RB_POWER_OFF) (Metalshark) * Remove duplicate unionctl() reimplementation error * Fix string termination in path creation * Mount /var/lock and /var/run as tmpfs 0.2 (2008-02-19) ---------------- * replace system("touch") with touch() in finit-mod (Metalshark) * disable NO_HCTOSYS by default to match stock Eeepc kernel * drop system("rm -f") to clean /tmp, its a fresh mounted tmpfs * write ACPI sleep state to /sys/power/state instead of /proc/acpi/sleep (Metalshark) * use direct calls to set loopback instead of system("ifconfig") * replace system("cat") and system("dd") with C implementation * moved finit-mod and finit-alt helpers to helpers.c * replace system("echo;cat") to draw shutdown splash with C calls 0.1 (2008-02-14) ---------------- * initial release .. 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