util-linux-1.10.tar.gz (source distribution) util-linux-1.10.bin.tar.gz (binary distribution) WARNING: THIS COLLECTION DOES *NOT* SUPPORT SHADOW PASSWORDS. WARNING: THIS COLLECTION DOES *NOT* SUPPORT SYSTEM V INITTAB. WARNING: USE GNU TAR -- OTHER TARS WILL FAIL SILENTLY! WARNING: DO *NOT* INSTALL WITHOUT THINKING. WARNING: *READ* the util-linux-1.10.bin.Notes file *BEFORE* and *AFTER* installation: there are a few links you must make by hand. This is a collection of many assorted utilities for Linux. Some are system utilities that are not easily available anywhere elsewhere (e.g., mkfs); others are BSD ports of common utilities that are not yet contained in any FSF package (e.g., col); others are non-System-V alternatives to common utilities (e.g., simpleinit, agetty, login, passwd). This distribution is a superset of my previous distributions: util-etc*, util-bin*, and util-usrbin*. There are no binaries in /etc. The arrangement, as nearly as I can determine, conforms to the Linux Filesystem Standard, with no exceptions. Many people provided patches and suggestions. I deeply appreciate this. HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.10: 1) domainname is no longer installed. The source for domainname is still included in the source distribution, as is the hostname-1.5 package, by Peter Tobias (tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de), which contains a new hostname and a dnsdomainname program. If you have any questions read the documentation in hostname-1.5 and NetKit-A. 2) Alan Modra (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au) updated syslogd and clock. 3) Joe Ragland (jrr@interpath.net) updated whereis.1 4) Kai Petzke (wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de) updated setserial.8 5) Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net) updated tunelp 6) Carl Christofferson (cchris@connected.com) updated col 7) bjdouma@xs4all.nl updated rev 8) Lots of updates to mount: without -t, (null) is no longer entered in mtab; readonly file systems are now remounted readonly if they weren't the first time; you can mount loop devices; umount will send RPC calls to the NFS server. 9) agetty, login, hostid updated. HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.9: 1) Miscellaneous bug fixes by Dave Gentzel (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com) and Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl) 2) tunelp has been added 3) selection now allows the mouse pointer to wrap (this is off by default) (Thanks to Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl).) 4) Many old versions have been removed, making the source distribution smaller. HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.8: 1) bdflush is now installed as update (WARNING!). 2) MAKEDEV was updated. This version uses /proc/devices. 3) Minor corrections (thanks to Dave Gentzel). 4) Nigel Gamble's lpcntl is included. See the included util-linux-1.10.bin.Notes file for HIGHLIGHTS of previous versions.