Re: New release of SysV init 3.08

2023-08-18 Thread Jesse Smith
On 2023-08-18 2:44 a.m., Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Jesse Smith] >> The big change in this release is the addition of the "halt -k" >> command, which will trigger a kexec (kernel exec without full reboot). > Are you talking about 'reboot -k'? I would expect 'halt' to always stop > the machine,

Re: New release of SysV init 3.08

2023-08-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Jesse Smith] > The big change in this release is the addition of the "halt -k" > command, which will trigger a kexec (kernel exec without full reboot). Are you talking about 'reboot -k'? I would expect 'halt' to always stop the machine, not reboot it... -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

New release of SysV init 3.08

2023-08-17 Thread Jesse Smith
Hello init lovers! There is a new release of SysV init now available. The new version is 3.08 which imports patches from Gentoo and touches up some documentation. The big change in this release is the addition of the "halt -k" command, which will trigger a kexec (kernel exec without f

New release of SysV init, version 3.01

2021-12-13 Thread Jesse Smith
I am pleased to announced the release of SysV init 3.01. The new version is minor and contains just two notable changes. The first is that pidof will now show processes in the uninterruptable sleep (D) state by default. In the past seeing processes in the "D" state required using the "-z" flag. Th

New release of SysV init

2020-07-06 Thread Jesse Smith
I am pleased to report the release of new versions of SysV init, along with its helper programs insserv, and startpar. This is a fairly tame release that mostly focuses on minor clean-ups, correcting some documentation, and polishing the Makefiles. The changes are shown below. Usually  do a beta t