[ANNOUNCE] poeigl-1.8a alpha version available

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From: poe
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:26

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I just uploaded poeigl-1.8a.tar.Z to ftp.daimi.aau.dk

Several people have sent me bug reports and fixes as well as extensions
to the programs in this package. This alpha release is an attempt to
make these enhancements available to the rest of the Linux community.

Several bugs have been fixed.

write/wall have been enhanced to support a commandline message.

simpleinit now reads the timezone from /etc/TZ and sets it.

getty now supports certain escape codes in /etc/issue

Login no more has the syslog() messages #ifdef'ed out. If you don't have a 
real syslogd daemon, then there's a hacked version of a very simple syslog()
call included.

*** STATEMENT OF DIRECTION ***

I do not think that any more work on simpleinit should be done. If you are
not satisfied with simpleinit, get the sysvinit package by Mike Smoorenburg.

Also, there is a GNU version of write that I think we should use.

Acknowledgements:
-----------------
Sander Van Malssen <kozmix!sander@relay.nluug.nl> provided the code for the
	escape codes in /etc/issue.

Ed Carp provided the patch for simpleinit that supports timezones.

ssd@nevets.oau.org (Steven S. Dick) told me about a bug in login.c wrt. 
	SIGHUP.

I forget who sent me the patch to wall.

My thanks to all of them.

As always, the packages contains only sourcecode. The binaries can be built
under Linux 0.98P5 or later with at least gcc-2.2.2d7

To those that do not already know, the poeigl package contains:

        init, getty, login, hostname, mesg, users, who, write

I have put the packages out for anon ftp at:

        ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/Linux-source

        - Peter. <poe@daimi.aau.dk>

-- 
Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
Hasle Ringvej 122, DK-8200 Aarhus N, DENMARK

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