From: poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux
Subject: init/getty/login announcement
Keywords: init, getty, login, ufc, crypt
Date: 15 Feb 92 14:28:13 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

I have just ftp'ed my package of init/getty/login for Linux to:

	ftp.daimi.aau.dk	file: /pub/Linux-source/poeigl.tar.Z
	nic.funet.fi		file: /pub/OS/Linux/incoming/poeigl.tar.Z

There are actually 2 inits, namely a hacked version of qpl-init, but it
doesn't work very well, and a more SysV like init that I wrote myself. It
works very well for me.

The getty program is a port of agetty posted to comp.sources.misc.

The login program is a port of BSD login first to HPUX then to Linux.

For init to work really well you should patch your kernel to run init as
process 1 instead of /etc/rc. But you can test it without that patch.

There's even a README file this time. :-)

The package still contains the complete UFC code, plus who, last and hostname
utils.

Try it, and let me know what you think.

I hope this will be in 0.13...

As an aside: I wrote about a bug in the kernel concering the check in 
check_char_dev() in fs/open.c of tty->session == 0. As an experiment I removed
that check and built a new kernel, and the problems disappeared! 

I doubt that this is a good way to solve it though.


   - Peter (poe@daimi.aau.dk) 

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From: poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux
Subject: Announcement: init/getty/login V1.1
Keywords: init getty login getlogin wall write encrypt who last
Date: 20 Feb 92 15:59:26 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

I just uploaded my latest version of my init/getty/login suite
for linux (also known as poeigl).

This version fixes all known bugs (for me that is), and features additional
code for a getlogin(3) call, a write(1) and wall(1) command.

Hopefully, Linus sees this and puts it into 0.13.

Ftp to

	ftp.daimi.aau.dk

and get (in binary mode) the file

	pub/Linux-source/poeigl-1.1.tar.Z

Thanks for all the responses, that helped me find and fix the most glaring
bugs in the previous release.


   - Peter. (poe@daimi.aau.dk)

PS. If there aren't found too many bugs in this release, I will let the code
alone for maybe a month or so, so the last bugs have time to filter out.

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Peter Orbaek ----------------- poe@daimi.aau.dk  |      ///
Hasle Ringvej 122, DK-8200 Aarhus N, DENMARK     |     ///
                                                 | \\\///
"Strong typing is for people with weak memories" |  \XX/