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finit - Finit v4.7 Latest Release

Published by github-actions[bot] 10 months ago

Changes

Silence "not available" messages for run/task/service with nowarn
Update docs, cgroup.root workaround for SCHED_RR tasks
Drop runlevels 0 and 6 from keventd, not needed at reboot/poweroff
Mount /dev/shm with mode 1777 (sticky bit)
Mount /dev/mqueue if available, inspiration from Alpine Linux
Update Alpine Linux installer and configuration files, tested on
Alpine v3.19, some assembly still required

Fixes

Fix confusing warning message when tmpfiles.d fails to install symlink
Fix tmpfiles.d legacy /run/lock/subsys, ordering
Add missing /var/tmp and /var/lock -> /run/lock (tmpfiles.d)
Fix #388: log redirection broken unless Finit runs in debug mode.
Found and fixed by Ryan Rorison
Fix #389: must libc requires libgen.h for basename() function.
Reported and worked around with new basenm() function by Stargirl

finit - Finit v4.6

Published by github-actions[bot] 12 months ago

Changes

Add support for service notify:pid and readiness none global
option to change how Finit expects readiness notification, issue #386

Fixes

Fix #383: dbus and runparts regression in Finit v4.5. The configure
script must expand FINIT_RUNPATH_ before defining it in config.h
Fix #384: service environment variables drop everything but the first
argument, e.g., VAR="foo bar qux" drops everything but foo
Fix #385: internal conditions, e.g., <int/bootstrap> turn into flux
when leaving bootstrap, causing depending services to stop
Fix #387: global environment variables declared with set VAR=NAME do
not drop leading set , causing 'set VAR'='NAME' in env.
Sanity check environment variables, for services and globally. Ensure
the variable name (key) does not contain spaces, or a leading set

finit - Finit v4.5

Published by github-actions[bot] 12 months ago

Changes

Refactor runparts and /etc/rc.local to no longer block the main loop, allowing initctl calls to interact with Finit. Issue #356
Refactor the run stanza to no longer block the main loop, issue #362
Allow sulogin with a user different from root, issue #357
Allow disabling invocation of rescue mode from kernel command line
Add initctl -f to force-skip asking Finit for existing services when creating new services during bootstrap, e.g. /etc/rc.local
initctl runlevel now returns N S instead of N 10 in bootstrap
initctl runlevel N during bootstrap is now allowed. It changes the next runlevel to go to when bootstrap has completed. Effectively overriding the runlevel N statement in /etc/finit.conf
Improved logging on failure to execvp() a run/task/service, now with errno, e.g., "No such file or directory" when the command is missing from $PATH
Add Bash completion support for initctl, configurable, issue #360
Handle absolute path to initctl [enable|disable], not supported
Update finit.conf(5) man page with the recommended directory hierarchy in /etc/finit.d/
The runparts code has been split into /libexec/finit/runparts
The runparts command now takes two options: sysv and progress. The former ensures only SNNfoo and KNNfoo scripts are run.
Add SysV Init Compatibility section to documentation
Increased MAX path for commands, and arguments: 64 -> 256
The bundled watchdog daemon no longer tries to log at startup, because syslog is not available yet, any startup message leak to console
Extend if: option with runtime evaluation of conditions. E.g., start a task only if:<run/foo/failure> (here the run task 'foo' failed)
Document new if:, conflict:, nowarn options for run/task/service first introduced in v4.4
Failure to open fstab should log to console, not just log to /dev/kmsg
Rename /lib/finit/system/*.conf, added numbered prefix to ensure proper execution order, e.g., udevd should always run first
Plugins and bundled services: dbus, keventd, watchdogd, and runparts, are now loaded after all services in /lib/finit/system/. A new runtime-only path (for inspection) in /run/finit/system/ is used
Redirect log* output to console when finit.debug is enabled
Assert <int/container> condition if we detect running in container
Add support for mdev's netlink daemon mode, issue #367
Add support for mdevd in 10-hotplug.conf, preferred over plain mdev
Disable modprobe plugin by default, udevd and mdev/mdevd loads modules
Update documentation for run/task shell limitations, issue #376
Update documentation regarding automount of /run and /tmp
Update plugin documentation, add section about limited tmpfiles.d(5) support
Skip registering service when if:!name matches a known service. This allows conditional loading of alternative services, e.g. if udevd is already loaded we do not need mdevd
Drop doc/bootstrap.md, inaccurate and confusing to users

Fixes

Fix #227: believed to have been fixed in v4.3, the root cause was actually that Finit was waiting for a process that was no longer in the system. The fix is to ask the kernel on process-stop-timeout and replay the lost PID so that Finit can continue with reboot/shutdown
Fix #358: fix inotify events for /etc/finit.conf, improved log messages and error handling
Fix #361: cgroup move fail if run/task/services start as non-root. Regression in the v4.4 release cycle while adding support for the pre:/post:/ready: scripts. Now the latter scripts also properly run in their correct cgroup
Fix #366: document fsck.* kernel command line options and simplify the configure flags --enable-fsckfix and --enable-fastboot to only adjust the default values for the fsck.* options.
Fix #371: swap load order of /lib/finit/system/* vs /etc/finit.d/*
We must run 10-hotplug.conf first to ensure devices and modules are up and loaded before the user's run/task/services are called. The order at bootstrap is now saved in /run/finit/conf.order for inspection, /run/finit/exec.order shows the start order of each process
Fix #372: lost udevadm calls due to overloading
Adjust final udevadm settle timeout: 5 -> 30 sec
Fixed dbus plugin, the function that located <pidfile> ... in the dbus/system.conf caused spurious line breaks which led to the service not being loaded properly
The runparts executor now skips backup files (foo~)
The runparts stanza now properly appends start to scripts that start with S[0-9]+. This has been broken for a very long time.

Fix #377: expand service env:file variables, allow constructs like:

  RUNDIR=/var/run/somesvc
  DAEMON_ARGS=--workdir $RUNDIR --other-args...

Fix #378: warn on console if run/task times out during bootstrap
Fix #378: add run/task support for <!> to allow transition from bootstrap to multi-user runlevel even though task has not run yet.
Fix #382: do not clear <service/foo/STATE> conditions on reload.
Introduced back in v4.3-rc2, 82cc10be8, the support for automatic service conditions have had a weird and unintended behavior. Any change in state (see doc/svc-machine.png) caused Finit to clear out all previously acquired service conditions.

However, when moving between RUNNING and PAUSED states, a service should not have its conditions cleared. The PAUSED state, seen also by all conditions moving to FLUX, is only temporary while an initctl reload is processed. If a service has no changes to be applied it will move back to RUNNING.

Also, we cannot clear the service conditions because other run/task or services may depend on it and clearing them would cause Finit to SIGTERM these processes (since they are no longer eligible to run).

finit - Finit v4.5-rc5

Published by github-actions[bot] about 1 year ago

Changes

Refactor runparts and /etc/rc.local to no longer block the main
loop, allowing initctl calls to interact with Finit. Issue #356
Refactor the run stanza to no longer block the main loop, issue #362
Allow sulogin with a user different from root, issue #357
Allow disabling invocation of rescue mode from kernel command line
Add initctl -f to force-skip asking Finit for existing services
when creating new services during bootstrap, e.g. /etc/rc.local
initctl runlevel now returns N S instead of N 10 in bootstrap
initctl runlevel N during bootstrap is now allowed. It changes
the next runlevel to go to when bootstrap has completed. Effectively
overriding the runlevel N statement in /etc/finit.conf
Improved logging on failure to execvp() a run/task/service, now
with errno, e.g., "No such file or directory" when the command
is missing from $PATH
Add support for Bash completion to initctl, issue #360
Handle absolute path to initctl [enable|disable], not supported
Update finit.conf(5) man page with the recommended directory
hierarchy in /etc/finit.d/
The runparts code has been split into /libexec/finit/runparts
The runparts command now takes two options: sysv and progress.
The former ensures only SNNfoo and KNNfoo scripts are run.
Add SysV Init Compatibility section to documentation
Increased MAX path for commands, and arguments: 64 -> 256
The bundled watchdog daemon no longer tries to log at startup, because
syslog is not available yet, any startup message leak to console
Extend if: option with runtime evaluation of conditions. E.g., start
a task only if:<run/foo/failure> (here the run task 'foo' failed)
Document new if:, conflict:, nowarn options for run/task/service
first introduced in v4.4
Failure to open fstab should log to console, not just log to /dev/kmsg
Rename /lib/finit/system/*.conf, added numbered prefix to ensure
proper execution order, e.g., udevd should always run first
Plugins and bundled services: dbus, keventd, watchdogd, and runparts,
are now loaded after all services in /lib/finit/system/. A new
runtime-only path (for inspection) in /run/finit/system/ is used

Fixes

Fix #227: believed to have been fixed in v4.3, the root cause was
actually that Finit was waiting for a process that was no longer in
the system. The fix is to ask the kernel on process-stop-timeout and
replay the lost PID so that Finit can continue with reboot/shutdown
Fix #358: fix inotify events for /etc/finit.conf, improved log
messages and error handling
Fix #361: cgroup move fail if run/task/services start as non-root.
Regression in the v4.4 release cycle while adding support for the
pre:/post:/ready: scripts. Now the latter scripts also properly run
in their correct cgroup
Fix #366: document fsck.* kernel command line options and simplify
the configure flags --enable-fsckfix and --enable-fastboot to
only adjust the default values for the fsck.* options.
Fix #371: swap load order of /lib/finit/system/* vs /etc/finit.d/*
We must run 10-hotplug.conf first to ensure devices and modules are
up and loaded before the user's run/task/services are called. The order
at bootstrap is now saved in /run/finit/conf.order for inspection,
/run/finit/exec.order shows the start order of each process
Fix #372: lost udevadm calls due to overloading
Fixed dbus plugin, the function that located <pidfile> ... in the
dbus/system.conf caused spurious line breaks which led to the
service not being loaded properly
The runparts executor now skips backup files (foo~)
The runparts stanza now properly appends start to scripts that
start with S[0-9]+. This has been broken for a very long time.

finit - Finit v4.5-rc4

Published by github-actions[bot] about 1 year ago

Changes

Refactor runparts and /etc/rc.local to no longer block the main
loop, allowing initctl calls to interact with Finit. Issue #356
Refactor the run stanza to no longer block the main loop, issue #362
Allow sulogin with a user different from root, issue #357
Allow disabling invocation of rescue mode from kernel command line
Add initctl -f to force-skip asking Finit for existing services
when creating new services during bootstrap, e.g. /etc/rc.local
initctl runlevel now returns N S instead of N 10 in bootstrap
initctl runlevel N during bootstrap is now allowed. It changes
the next runlevel to go to when bootstrap has completed. Effectively
overriding the runlevel N statement in /etc/finit.conf
Improved logging on failure to execvp() a run/task/service, now
with errno, e.g., "No such file or directory" when the command
is missing from $PATH
Add support for Bash completion to initctl, issue #360
Handle absolute path to initctl [enable|disable], not supported
Update finit.conf(5) man page with the recommended directory
hierarchy in /etc/finit.d/
The runparts code has been split into /libexec/finit/runparts
The runparts command now takes two options: sysv and progress.
The former ensures only SNNfoo and KNNfoo scripts are run.
Add SysV Init Compatibility section to documentation
Increased MAX path for commands, and arguments: 64 -> 256
The bundled watchdog daemon no longer tries to log at startup, because
syslog is not available yet, any startup message leak to console
Extend if: option with runtime evaluation of conditions. E.g., start
a task only if:<run/foo/failure> (here the run task 'foo' failed)
Document new if:, conflict:, nowarn options for run/task/service
first introduced in v4.4

Fixes

Fix #227: believed to have been fixed in v4.3, the root cause was
actually that Finit was waiting for a process that was no longer in
the system. The fix is to ask the kernel on process-stop-timeout and
replay the lost PID so that Finit can continue with reboot/shutdown
Fix #358: fix inotify events for /etc/finit.conf, improved log
messages and error handling
Fix #361: cgroup move fail if run/task/services start as non-root.
Regression in the v4.4 release cycle while adding support for the
pre:/post:/ready: scripts. Now the latter scripts also properly run
in their correct cgroup
Fix #366: document fsck.* kernel command line options and simplify
the configure flags --enable-fsckfix and --enable-fastboot to
only adjust the default values for the fsck.* options.
The runparts executor now skips backup files (foo~)
The runparts stanza now properly appends start to scripts that
start with S[0-9]+. This has been broken for a very long time.

finit - Finit v4.5-rc3

Published by github-actions[bot] about 1 year ago

Changes

Refactor runparts and /etc/rc.local to no longer block the main
loop, allowing initctl calls to interact with Finit. Issue #356
Refactor the run stanza to no longer block the main loop, issue #362
Allow sulogin with a user different from root, issue #357
Allow disabling invocation of rescue mode from kernel command line
Add initctl -f to force-skip asking Finit for existing services
when creating new services during bootstrap, e.g. /etc/rc.local
initctl runlevel now returns N S instead of N 10 in bootstrap
Improved logging on failure to execvp() a run/task/service, now
with errno, e.g., "No such file or directory" when the command
is missing from $PATH
Add support for Bash completion to initctl, issue #360
Handle absolute path to initctl [enable|disable], not supported
Update finit.conf(5) man page with the recommended directory
hierarchy in /etc/finit.d/
The runparts code has been split into /libexec/finit/runparts
The runparts command now takes two options: sysv and progress.
The former ensures only SNNfoo and KNNfoo scripts are run.
Add SysV Init Compatibility section to documentation
Increased MAX path for commands, and arguments: 64 -> 256
The bundled watchdog daemon no longer tries to log at startup, because
syslog is not available yet, any startup message leak to console

Fixes

Fix #227: believed to have been fixed in v4.3, the root cause was
actually that Finit was waiting for a process that was no longer in
the system. The fix is to ask the kernel on process-stop-timeout and
replay the lost PID so that Finit can continue with reboot/shutdown
Fix #358: fix inotify events for /etc/finit.conf, improved log
messages and error handling
Fix #361: cgroup move fail if run/task/services start as non-root.
Regression in the v4.4 release cycle while adding support for the
pre:/post:/ready: scripts. Now the latter scripts also properly run
in their correct cgroup
Fix #366: document fsck.* kernel command line options and simplify
the configure flags --enable-fsckfix and --enable-fastboot to
only adjust the default values for the fsck.* options.
The runparts executor now skips backup files (foo~)
The runparts stanza now properly appends start to scripts that
start with S[0-9]+. This has been broken for a very long time.

finit - Finit v4.5-rc2

Published by github-actions[bot] about 1 year ago

Changes

Refactor runparts and /etc/rc.local to no longer block the main loop, allowing these scripts to call initctl to interact with Finit. Still in a limited way due to them being used at bootstrap, issue #356
Refactor the run stanza to no longer block the main loop, issue #362
Allow sulogin with a user different from root, issue #357
Allow disabling invocation of rescue mode from kernel command line
Add initctl -f to force-skip asking Finit for existing services when creating new services during bootstrap, e.g. /etc/rc.local
initctl runlevel now returns N S instead of N 10 in bootstrap
Improved logging on failure to execvp() a run/task/service, now with errno, e.g., "No such file or directory" when the command is missing from $PATH
Add support for Bash completion to initctl, issue #360
Handle absolute path to initctl [enable|disable], not supported
Update finit.conf(5) man page with the recommended directory hierarchy in /etc/finit.d/
The runparts code has been split into /libexec/finit/runparts
Add SysV Init Compatibility section to documentation
Increased MAX path for commands, and arguments: 64 -> 256

Fixes

Fix #227: believed to have been fixed in v4.3, the root cause was actually that Finit was waiting for a process that was no longer in the system. The fix is to ask the kernel on process-stop-timeout and replay the lost PID so that Finit can continue with reboot/shutdown
Fix #358: fix inotify events for /etc/finit.conf, improved log messages and error handling
Fix #361: cgroup move fail if run/task/services start as non-root. Regression in the v4.4 release cycle while adding support for the pre:/post:/ready: scripts. Now the latter scripts also properly run in their correct cgroup
The runparts executor now skips backup files (foo~)
The runparts stanza now properly appends start to scripts that start with S[0-9]+. This has been broken for a very long time.

finit - Finit v4.4

Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

Note 1: this release contains changes to the .conf parser. If you have .conf file statements with comment character (#) in the command options or description, you must now escape them (\#). Issue #186

Note 2: prior to this release, runlevel S and 0 were after boot treated as the same runlevel. This caused task [06] ... to also run at bootstrap instead of just at shutdown and reboot. The changes made to Finit to separate S from 0 require you to update the allowed runlevels for services that are allowed to continue running at shutdown. I.e., change [S123456789] to [S0123456789] for, e.g., sysklogd. Issue #352

Changes

Add limited tmpfiles.d(5) support

This change adds very basic tmpfiles.d/ support to Finit. Most of
the basic types are supported, but not all, so for now, please check
the code and examples for details on what is working.
If a run/task/service command does not exist, skip registering it

This changes the semantics of Finit a bit by checking for the command
to run when registering it, skipping commands that cannot be found in
the absolute path provided in the command, or in $PATH

This change includes a new nowarn flag that can be used to prevent
Finit from warning for missing commands. See below for an example.
Add run/task/service support for conflict:foo handling
Add run/task/service support for if:[!]ident and if:<[!]cond>

Conditional loading of stanza depending on ident is already loaded (or
not), or condition satisfied (or not). E.g., do not run mdev if we
found and registered udevd, or load service only if <boot/testing>
condition is set.

The optional leading ! negates the comparison, if NOT foo then ...
Add support for static services in /lib/finit/system/*.conf

Slowly migrating away from hard-coded services in plugins. This way
it's possible for the user to both inspect and override as needed.
Migrate hotplug plugin to a conditional /lib/finit/system/hotplug.conf

This is the first example of the just minted advanced stanza syntax with
if:-statements, conflict: handling, and nowarn flags.
Initial support for template services, [email protected], similar to systemd
```
  $ initctl show avahi-autoipd@
  service :%i avahi-autoipd --syslog %i -- ZeroConf for %i
```
To enable ZeroConf for, e.g., eth0, use
```
  $ initctl enable [email protected]
```
The enabled symlink will be set up to [email protected] and every
instance of %i will in the instantiated directive be replaced with
eth0. Inspect the result with:
```
  $ initctl status avahi-autoipd:eth0
```
Add devmon, a <dev/foo> condition provider, issue #185

Support for line continuation character \ in .conf files, issue #186

  service name:sysklogd [S123456789]   \
      env:-/etc/default/sysklogd       \
      syslogd -F $SYSLOGD_ARGS         \
      -- System log daemon

HOOK_BASEFS_UP has been moved! External plugins that need to call
service_register(), please use HOOK_SVC_PLUGIN from now on.
Apologies for any inconveniences this might cause!
getty: add support for /etc/os-release to replace uname output
This change, which has a fallback to /usr/lib/os-release, overrides
traditional modifiers with the os-release variant. These values were
taken from uname, which on Linux systems are pretty useless since
they always return the kernel name and version instead of the
distro/OS values.

E.g., \s becomes PRETTY_NAME instead of 'Linux' and \v becomes the
pretty VERSION, while \r becomes VERSION_ID.
Support for overriding /etc/finit.conf and /etc/finit.d issue #235
New (kernel) command line option finit.config=PATH which can be used
to redirect Finit to start up with, e.g., /etc/factory.conf instead of
/etc/finit.conf.

For the complete experience a new top-level configuration file directive
rcsd PATH has aslo been added. It in turn can be used by factory.conf
as follows to override /etc/finit.d:
```
  rcsd /etc/factory.d
```
Support for overriding /etc/finit.d from the alternate finit.conf
with a new rcsd /path/to/dot.d/ .conf file directive
Support for fsck_mode=[auto,skip,force] + fsck_repair=[preen,no,yes]
Add set keyword for environment variables set in /etc/finit.conf
Support finit.cond=foo cmdline <boot/foo> conditions, issue #250

initctl JSON output support for status and conditions, issue #273
Example:

  root@infix:~$ initctl status -j resolvconf
  {
    "identity": "resolvconf",
    "description": "Update DNS configuration",
    "type": "task",
    "forking": false,
    "status": "done",
    "exit": { "code": 0 },
    "origin": "/etc/finit.d/enabled/sysrepo.conf",
    "command": "resolvconf -u",
    "restarts": 0,
    "pidfile": "none",
    "pid": 0,
    "user": "root",
    "group": "root",
    "uptime": 0,
    "runlevels": [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 ]
  }

The excellent tool jq can be used to extract parts of the output for
further scripting. E.g. initctl status -j foo | jq .exit.status

Add JSON support to initctl ls command

This allows for easy access to the disabled services:

  root@anarchy:~# initctl ls --json |jq '.available - .enabled'
  [
    "chronyd.conf",
    "dnsmasq.conf",
    "gdbserver.conf",
    "inadyn.conf",
    "inetd.conf",
    "isisd.conf",
    "lldpd.conf",
    "mstpd.conf",
    "ntpd.conf",
    "ospf6d.conf",
    "ospfd.conf",
    "querierd.conf",
    "ripd.conf",
    "ripng.conf",
    "sshd.conf",
    "syslogd.conf",
    "telnetd.conf",
    "uftpd.conf",
    "wpa_supplicant.conf",
    "zebra.conf"
  ]

Allow manual:yes on sysv/service/run/task stanzas, issue #274
Add support for oncrash:script to call the post:script action, if
defined, for a crashing service. The EXIT_CODE variable sent to the
script is set to crashed. Issue #282
Search for plugins in /usr and /usr/local as well, issue #284
tty: add support for passenv flag to /bin/login, issue #286
Add reboot/shutdown/poweroff timeout -t SEC to initctl, issue #295
Add support for s6 and systemd readiness notification, issue #299.
Service readiness notification to support daemons employing systemd
and s6 notification. Complementing the native Finit readiness support
using PID files that exist already.

The two have slightly different ways of implementing readiness:
- https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_notify.html
- https://skarnet.org/software/s6/notifywhenup.html
Finit now provides both a NOTIFY_SOCKET environment variable, for
systemd, and a way to start s6 daemons with a descriptor argument.

For details on the syntax, see the service documentation.

This change also renames internal states for run/task/services to
avoid any confusion with the introduction of ready:scripts:
- WAITING -> PAUSED
- READY -> WAITING
A service condition that used, e.g., <service/foo/ready> should now
instead use <service/foo/waiting>
Add ready:script for services, called when daemon is ready, issue #300
Add support for running scripts at shutdown at two new hook points
during the shutdown process, issue #302. See doc/plugins.md for details:
- HOOK_SVC_DN: after all services and non-reserved processes have been
  killed (and collected)
- HOOK_SYS_DN: after all file systems have been unmounted, just prior
  to Finit calling reboot() to shut down or reboot the system
The modules-load plugin now default to runlevel [S], in previous
releases it was [2345]. This breaking change is to align it more
with what users mostly want (modules loaded before services start) and
can be changed back to the old behavior with a per-file setting:
```
  set runlevel 2345
```
The modules-load plugin now adds silent tasks for modprobe. This to
prevent confusing [ OK ] boot messages when in fact modprobe failed.
The modules-load plugin now support set modprobe /path/to/modprobe
The header files finit/conf.h and finit/service.h are now exported
for external plugins
Add support for multiple args to initctl cond set/clr, issue #329
Silence confusing [ OK ] progress from modules-load plugin, issue #332

This change drops the confusing status progress output, which was always
OK since the actual modprobe operation runs in the background. No need
to show status of the "added a task to finit, found modprobe" command.
dbus plugin: adapt to other operating systems

Not all Linux systems are based on Debian, and even if they are inspired
by Debian (Buildroot), they do not necessarily use the same defaults.
Probes the system at runtime for:
- dbus user and group
- dbus PID file
If the user/group cannot be found we fall back to root, if the PID
file cannot be determined we ignore PID file readiness.
Improve documentation for runparts and hook scripts. Issue #315, #320
Add HOOK_NETWORK_DN, called after change to runlevel 6 or 0, issue #319
Use sysklogd logger tool instead of legacy logit tool, issue #344

For log redirection Finit has the legacy logit tool. This change
allows Finit to use the sysklogd project's extended logger tool
instead, when available. Allowing logging with the process' PID.
Add initctl aliases: cat -> show, kill -> signal
Add initctl -n,--noerr to return OK(0) if services do not exist, for
integration with openresolv and scripts with similar requirements
Add initctl plugins, list installed plugins
Add timestamp to log messages in fallback and logging to stderr.
When there is no log daemon, and we are running in a container, or we
cannot log to the kernel ring buffer, then we log to stderr. This
change improves log output by prefixing each message with a timestamp.

Fixes

Fix #254: document limitations in rc.local and runparts scripts
Fix #269: add compulsory kernel symlinks in /dev
Fix #275: initctl status foo should list all instances, regression
introduced in v4.3
Fix #278: enforce conditions also for running pre: scripts
Fix #279: allow restart:always, of crashing services. Similar to
respawn but honors restart_sec
Fix #280: allow calling initctl restart foo from within foo
Fix #283: too quick timeout at bootstrap of lingering tasks
Fix #285: initctl restart should start crashed service
Fix #288: enable built-in sulogin in Alpine and Void Linux builds
Fix #293: modprobe plugin: support for coldplugging more devices. It
turns out, not all buses in Linux add modalias attributes to their
devices in sysfs. One notable exception are MDIO buses. The plugin's
scan routine would thus not pick them up.
Fix #294: shutdown --help mistakenly shuts down system
Fix #310: Always use configured restart delay for crashing services.
If no delay is configured, default to an initial 2000 msec for forking
daemons and start-stop scripts, and 1 msec for non-forking daemons
Fix #311: document how to combine device tree with conditions
Fix #312: restart services with respawn set, e.g. ttys, immediately
Fix #313: Cancel pending restart timer on stop/start/restart/reload
Fix #314: skip run/task/service restart if conditions are lost
Fix #315: add environment variables to hook scripts

All hook scripts are called with at least one environment variable
set, FINIT_HOOK_NAME, useful when reusing the same hook script for
multiple hook points. It is set to the string name, also used by the
path, e.g., hook/net/up

For all hook points from hook/sys/shutdown and later, FINIT_SHUTDOWN
is also set, to one of: halt, poweroff, reboot
Fix #317: make sure hook scripts don't run twice, also fixes #316
Fix #318: only show [ OK ] Calling foo progress for runparts ...
Fix #320: the API/IPC socket is closed immediately at shutdown/reboot
to protect hook scripts or services calling initctl. There is no way
to service these requests safely at that time
Fix #333: consider a service dirty if command line args have changed

This fixes initctl reload correctly restarting all daemons that have
new command line arguments.

Previously command line arguments changes were only acted upon if the
service was explicitly reloaded initctl reload myservice.

Found and fixed by Jack Newman
Fix #338: ensure shutdown hooks are called properly; hook/sys/down
and hook/svc/down hook scripts, found and fixed by Jack Newman
Fix #339: use absolute path in /etc/finit.d/enabled/ symlinks, for
use-cases when /etc is read-only and /etc/finit.d/enabled -> /mnt/finit.d/enabled, reported by Jack Newman
Fix #340: Finit ignores deleted/moved .conf file sin /etc/finit.d
Fix #342: in runlevel S (bootstrap), not all initctl commands can be
supported, block the following: runlevel, reload, start/stop, restart,
reload, halt, poweroff, suspend. Also, prevent SIGHUP and SIGUSR1
signals when in shutdown or reboot
Fix #352: separate runlevel S from runlevel 0
Fix #355: regression in v3.2 stopping a process and its group

In Finit v3.2 a regression was introduced that affects the way Finit
stops a supervised process and its process group.

Instead of sending SIGTERM to the process, and thus delegating the
responsibility to that process to inform any children it may have, as
of commit 91a9c83 Finit sends SIGTERM to the entire process group.
For SIGKILL this is fine, SIGKILL only runs as cleanup and as a last
ditch effort if the process doesn't respond to SIGTERM.

This regression, introduced in v3.2, directly affects services like
avahi-autoipd that have forked off children that it needs to tell to
exit cleanly before it returns. With the patch in question these
children are never allowed to complete, which in turn causes lingering
169.254 link-local addresses on interfaces.
Fix bootmisc plugin: octal permission on /run/lock and /var/lock
Ensure initctl cond get support the flux state (exit code 255)
Fix potential socket leak at bootstrap and shutdown
Fix potential NULL pointer deref in kernel command line parser
Fix lingering condition in service after reload of service with new
config that has no condition
Fix wrong path to command in service after reload, may have changed
logit: fall back to package name if $LOGNAME and $USER are
unset. Note: you should probably not use logit in your own
scripts, it is only meant for internal use by Finit. We recommend
using logger from the bsdutils or sysklogd packages instead
Fix issue where env:/pre:/post:/etc. is removed from a service

The trick is when reloading a service like this:
```
  service env:/etc/env    serv -np -e foo:bar
```
into this:
```
  service pre:/bin/pre.sh serv -np
```
In the second the env: has been removed and pre: added. Prior to
this patch, env: was kept leading to unintended behavior.
Fix parse/diff of command line args, e.g., nginx -g 'daemon off;'

Starting a service like this works fine:
```
  service [2345789] env:-/etc/default/nginx nginx -g 'daemon off;'
```
However, on initctl reload (and no change to .conf files) the arg
list was lost while parsing the .conf files. Leading to a false
positive 'diff' in args causing nginx to be unnecessarily restarted.
Fix issue with disabled "linewrap" on the console TTY after login.
The root cause is qemu-system-x86_64 -nographics disabling it when
starting up. The correct \e[?7h escape code is now used.

finit - Finit v4.4-rc2

Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

Note 1: this release contains changes to the .conf parser. If you
have .conf file statements with comment character (#) in the command
options or description, you must now escape them (\#). Issue #186

Note 2: prior to this release, runlevel S and 0 were after
boot treated as the same runlevel. This caused task [06] ... to
also run at bootstrap instead of just at shutdown and reboot. The
changes made to Finit to separate S from 0 require you to update
the allowed runlevels for services that are allowed to continue
running at shutdown. I.e., change [S123456789] to [S0123456789]
for, e.g., sysklogd. Issue #352

Changes

Add limited tmpfiles.d(5) support

This change adds very basic tmpfiles.d/ support to Finit. Most of
the basic types are supported, but not all, so for now, please check
the code and examples for details on what is working.
If a run/task/service command does not exist, skip registering it

This changes the semantics of Finit a bit by checking for the command
to run when registering it, skipping commands that cannot be found in
the absolute path provided in the command, or in $PATH

This change includes a new nowarn flag that can be used to prevent
Finit from warning for missing commands. See below for an example.
Add run/task/service support for conflict:foo handling
Add run/task/service support for if:[!]ident and if:<[!]cond>

Conditional loading of stanza depending on ident is already loaded (or
not), or condition satisfied (or not). E.g., do not run mdev if we
found and registered udevd, or load service only if <boot/testing>
condition is set.

The optional leading ! negates the comparison, if NOT foo then ...
Add support for static services in /lib/finit/system/*.conf

Slowly migrating away from hard-coded services in plugins. This way
it's possible for the user to both inspect and override as needed.
Migrate hotplug plugin to a conditional /lib/finit/system/hotplug.conf

This is the first example of the just minted advanced stanza syntax with
if:-statements, conflict: handling, and nowarn flags.
Initial support for template services, [email protected], similar to systemd
```
  $ initctl show avahi-autoipd@
  service :%i avahi-autoipd --syslog %i -- ZeroConf for %i
```
To enable ZeroConf for, e.g., eth0, use
```
  $ initctl enable [email protected]
```
The enabled symlink will be set up to [email protected] and every
instance of %i will in the instantiated directive be replaced with
eth0. Inspect the result with:
```
  $ initctl status avahi-autoipd:eth0
```
Add devmon, a <dev/foo> condition provider, issue #185

Support for line continuation character \ in .conf files, issue #186

  service name:sysklogd [S123456789]   \
      env:-/etc/default/sysklogd       \
      syslogd -F $SYSLOGD_ARGS         \
      -- System log daemon

HOOK_BASEFS_UP has been moved! External plugins that need to call
service_register(), please use HOOK_SVC_PLUGIN from now on.
Apologies for any inconveniences this might cause!
getty: add support for /etc/os-release to replace uname output
This change, which has a fallback to /usr/lib/os-release, overrides
traditional modifiers with the os-release variant. These values were
taken from uname, which on Linux systems are pretty useless since
they always return the kernel name and version instead of the
distro/OS values.

E.g., \s becomes PRETTY_NAME instead of 'Linux' and \v becomes the
pretty VERSION, while \r becomes VERSION_ID.
Support for overriding /etc/finit.conf and /etc/finit.d issue #235
New (kernel) command line option finit.config=PATH which can be used
to redirect Finit to start up with, e.g., /etc/factory.conf instead of
/etc/finit.conf.

For the complete experience a new top-level configuration file directive
rcsd PATH has aslo been added. It in turn can be used by factory.conf
as follows to override /etc/finit.d:
```
  rcsd /etc/factory.d
```
Support for overriding /etc/finit.d from the alternate finit.conf
with a new rcsd /path/to/dot.d/ .conf file directive
Support for fsck_mode=[auto,skip,force] + fsck_repair=[preen,no,yes]
Add set keyword for environment variables set in /etc/finit.conf
Support finit.cond=foo cmdline <boot/foo> conditions, issue #250

initctl JSON output support for status and conditions, issue #273
Example:

  root@infix:~$ initctl status -j resolvconf
  {
    "identity": "resolvconf",
    "description": "Update DNS configuration",
    "type": "task",
    "forking": false,
    "status": "done",
    "exit": { "code": 0 },
    "origin": "/etc/finit.d/enabled/sysrepo.conf",
    "command": "resolvconf -u",
    "restarts": 0,
    "pidfile": "none",
    "pid": 0,
    "user": "root",
    "group": "root",
    "uptime": 0,
    "runlevels": [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 ]
  }

The excellent tool jq can be used to extract parts of the output for
further scripting. E.g. initctl status -j foo | jq .exit.status

Add JSON support to initctl ls command

This allows for easy access to the disabled services:

  root@anarchy:~# initctl ls --json |jq '.available - .enabled'
  [
    "chronyd.conf",
    "dnsmasq.conf",
    "gdbserver.conf",
    "inadyn.conf",
    "inetd.conf",
    "isisd.conf",
    "lldpd.conf",
    "mstpd.conf",
    "ntpd.conf",
    "ospf6d.conf",
    "ospfd.conf",
    "querierd.conf",
    "ripd.conf",
    "ripng.conf",
    "sshd.conf",
    "syslogd.conf",
    "telnetd.conf",
    "uftpd.conf",
    "wpa_supplicant.conf",
    "zebra.conf"
  ]

Allow manual:yes on sysv/service/run/task stanzas, issue #274
Add support for oncrash:script to call the post:script action, if
defined, for a crashing service. The EXIT_CODE variable sent to the
script is set to crashed. Issue #282
Search for plugins in /usr and /usr/local as well, issue #284
tty: add support for passenv flag to /bin/login, issue #286
Add reboot/shutdown/poweroff timeout -t SEC to initctl, issue #295
Add support for s6 and systemd readiness notification, issue #299.
Service readiness notification to support daemons employing systemd
and s6 notification. Complementing the native Finit readiness support
using PID files that exist already.

The two have slightly different ways of implementing readiness:
- https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_notify.html
- https://skarnet.org/software/s6/notifywhenup.html
Finit now provides both a NOTIFY_SOCKET environment variable, for
systemd, and a way to start s6 daemons with a descriptor argument.

For details on the syntax, see the service documentation.

This change also renames internal states for run/task/services to
avoid any confusion with the introduction of ready:scripts:
- WAITING -> PAUSED
- READY -> WAITING
A service condition that used, e.g., <service/foo/ready> should now
instead use <service/foo/waiting>
Add ready:script for services, called when daemon is ready, issue #300
Add support for running scripts at shutdown at two new hook points
during the shutdown process, issue #302. See doc/plugins.md for details:
- HOOK_SVC_DN: after all services and non-reserved processes have been
  killed (and collected)
- HOOK_SYS_DN: after all file systems have been unmounted, just prior
  to Finit calling reboot() to shut down or reboot the system
The modules-load plugin now default to runlevel [S], in previous
releases it was [2345]. This breaking change is to align it more
with what users mostly want (modules loaded before services start) and
can be changed back to the old behavior with a per-file setting:
```
  set runlevel 2345
```
The modules-load plugin now adds silent tasks for modprobe. This to
prevent confusing [ OK ] boot messages when in fact modprobe failed.
The modules-load plugin now support set modprobe /path/to/modprobe
The header files finit/conf.h and finit/service.h are now exported
for external plugins
Add support for multiple args to initctl cond set/clr, issue #329
Silence confusing [ OK ] progress from modules-load plugin, issue #332

This change drops the confusing status progress output, which was always
OK since the actual modprobe operation runs in the background. No need
to show status of the "added a task to finit, found modprobe" command.
dbus plugin: adapt to other operating systems

Not all Linux systems are based on Debian, and even if they are inspired
by Debian (Buildroot), they do not necessarily use the same defaults.
Probes the system at runtime for:
- dbus user and group
- dbus PID file
If the user/group cannot be found we fall back to root, if the PID
file cannot be determined we ignore PID file readiness.
Improve documentation for runparts and hook scripts. Issue #315, #320
Add HOOK_NETWORK_DN, called after change to runlevel 6 or 0, issue #319
Use sysklogd logger tool instead of legacy logit tool, issue #344

For log redirection Finit has the legacy logit tool. This change
allows Finit to use the sysklogd project's extended logger tool
instead, when available. Allowing logging with the process' PID.
Add initctl aliases: cat -> show, kill -> signal
Add initctl -n,--noerr to return OK(0) if services do not exist, for
integration with openresolv and scripts with similar requirements
Add initctl plugins, list installed plugins
Add timestamp to log messages in fallback and logging to stderr.
When there is no log daemon, and we are running in a container, or we
cannot log to the kernel ring buffer, then we log to stderr. This
change improves log output by prefixing each message with a timestamp.

Fixes

Fix #254: document limitations in rc.local and runparts scripts
Fix #269: add compulsory kernel symlinks in /dev
Fix #275: initctl status foo should list all instances, regression
introduced in v4.3
Fix #278: enforce conditions also for running pre: scripts
Fix #279: allow restart:always, of crashing services. Similar to
respawn but honors restart_sec
Fix #280: allow calling initctl restart foo from within foo
Fix #283: too quick timeout at bootstrap of lingering tasks
Fix #285: initctl restart should start crashed service
Fix #288: enable built-in sulogin in Alpine and Void Linux builds
Fix #293: modprobe plugin: support for coldplugging more devices. It
turns out, not all buses in Linux add modalias attributes to their
devices in sysfs. One notable exception are MDIO buses. The plugin's
scan routine would thus not pick them up.
Fix #294: shutdown --help mistakenly shuts down system
Fix #310: Always use configured restart delay for crashing services.
If no delay is configured, default to an initial 2000 msec for forking
daemons and start-stop scripts, and 1 msec for non-forking daemons
Fix #311: document how to combine device tree with conditions
Fix #312: restart services with respawn set, e.g. ttys, immediately
Fix #313: Cancel pending restart timer on stop/start/restart/reload
Fix #314: skip run/task/service restart if conditions are lost
Fix #315: add environment variables to hook scripts

All hook scripts are called with at least one environment variable
set, FINIT_HOOK_NAME, useful when reusing the same hook script for
multiple hook points. It is set to the string name, also used by the
path, e.g., hook/net/up

For all hook points from hook/sys/shutdown and later, FINIT_SHUTDOWN
is also set, to one of: halt, poweroff, reboot
Fix #317: make sure hook scripts don't run twice, also fixes #316
Fix #318: only show [ OK ] Calling foo progress for runparts ...
Fix #320: the API/IPC socket is closed immediately at shutdown/reboot
to protect hook scripts or services calling initctl. There is no way
to service these requests safely at that time
Fix #333: consider a service dirty if command line args have changed

This fixes initctl reload correctly restarting all daemons that have
new command line arguments.

Previously command line arguments changes were only acted upon if the
service was explicitly reloaded initctl reload myservice.

Found and fixed by Jack Newman
Fix #338: ensure shutdown hooks are called properly; hook/sys/down
and hook/svc/down hook scripts, found and fixed by Jack Newman
Fix #339: use absolute path in /etc/finit.d/enabled/ symlinks, for
use-cases when /etc is read-only and /etc/finit.d/enabled -> /mnt/finit.d/enabled, reported by Jack Newman
Fix #340: Finit ignores deleted/moved .conf file sin /etc/finit.d
Fix #342: in runlevel S (bootstrap), not all initctl commands can be
supported, block the following: runlevel, reload, start/stop, restart,
reload, halt, poweroff, suspend. Also, prevent SIGHUP and SIGUSR1
signals when in shutdown or reboot
Fix #352: separate runlevel S from runlevel 0
Fix bootmisc plugin: octal permission on /run/lock and /var/lock
Ensure initctl cond get support the flux state (exit code 255)
Fix potential socket leak at bootstrap and shutdown
Fix potential NULL pointer deref in kernel command line parser
Fix lingering condition in service after reload of service with new
config that has no condition
Fix wrong path to command in service after reload, may have changed
logit: fall back to package name if $LOGNAME and $USER are
unset. Note: you should probably not use logit in your own
scripts, it is only meant for internal use by Finit. We recommend
using logger from the bsdutils or sysklogd packages instead
Fix issue where env:/pre:/post:/etc. is removed from a service

The trick is when reloading a service like this:
```
  service env:/etc/env    serv -np -e foo:bar
```
into this:
```
  service pre:/bin/pre.sh serv -np
```
In the second the env: has been removed and pre: added. Prior to
this patch, env: was kept leading to unintended behavior.
Fix parse/diff of command line args, e.g., nginx -g 'daemon off;'

Starting a service like this works fine:
```
  service [2345789] env:-/etc/default/nginx nginx -g 'daemon off;'
```
However, on initctl reload (and no change to .conf files) the arg
list was lost while parsing the .conf files. Leading to a false
positive 'diff' in args causing nginx to be unnecessarily restarted.

finit - Finit v4.3

Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

Critical bug fix release. If you run a 32-bit target with GLIBC 2.34 you need to upgrade!

Note: system verbosity on console at start and shutdown has been
increased. Now the output of all commands is logged to the
system logger, for early services /dev/kmsg is used.

Also: please notice the updated support for enabling and disabling
kernel and Finit debug messages on the system console. Very
useful when debugging either of them, e.g., a kernel module.
For details, see cmdline.md.

Changes

Support for overriding default runlevel from kernel command line. Any runlevel [1-9] may be selected, except 6 (reboot). Issue #261
New command line option: finit.fstab=/etc/fstab.custom, with full support for mounting, mount helpers, fsck, and swapon/off, issue #224
Support for special device /dev/root, which may not exist in /dev. Finit now looks up the matching block device for / in /sys/block/
Loading modules no longer shows arguments in progress output
Warning messages in progress output now in yellow, not red, issue #214
initctl, new command line option -V,--version for ease of use
New condition done for run task, issue #207 by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Refactor parts of shutdown and reboot sequence for PREEMPT-RT kernels, by Robert Andersson, Mathias Thore, and Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Conditions for run/task/sysv status, e.g. run/foo/success and task/bar/failure. Issue #232, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Conditions for services, can be used to synchronize other stanzas:
- service/foo/running
- service/foo/halted
- service/foo/missing
- service/foo/crashed
- service/foo/stopped
- service/foo/busy
- service/foo/restart
initctl signal support, by Jörgen Sigvardsson, issue #225
initctl cond get support to match cond [set | clear], issue #255
[WARN] messages on console now printed in yellow, issue #214
Network services now also stopped when going to runlevel 6 (reboot), not just runlevel 0 (shutdown) or 1 (single-user)
When ifup is missing on the system, bring at least lo up at boot
Log output from ifup -a (and ifdown -a), to syslog
Avoid blocking PID 1 when starting SysV init scripts
Allow custom pid: for SysV init scripts
Document supported types of forking/non-forking services
Auto-detect running in some common forms of containers
Simplify shutdown/reboot when running in a container
Log to stderr when running in a container w/o syslog daemon
Add support for type:forking to services, already supported but with a very difficult pid: syntax, issue #223. Docs updated
Support for setting global environment variables in finit.conf, please note: this also affects Finit itself, be careful!
Extended environment variables for pre/post scripts, issue #189
Document secret service option respawn, which bypasses the crash semantics, allowing endless restarts
Document secret HOOK_BANNER, the first hook point before the banner
Document slightly confusing initctl reload foo command. It does not reload the service's .conf file! Issue #263
Log changes; all instances where previously the basename cmd of a service was used to identify the service, now the proper name:id is used instead. Meaning, a service without a custom :ID or name: will display the same as before, but with any of those customization the name and name:id will now be shown. Note: this may affect any log scrapers out there!
New plugin: hook-scripts, allows run-parts(8) style scripts to run on any hook point. Contributed by Tobias Waldekranz
initctl (reboot) falls back to -f when it detects it is in sulogin recovery mode, issue #247
The bundled sulogin is no longer enabled by default, in favor of distribution versions. Enable with ./configure --with-sulogin
Support args to sysv-like scripts, e.g. bridge-stp br0 start
The modules-load plugin now skips all lines starting with # and ;. Furthermore, files in /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf are now read in lexicographic order and UNIX backup files (foo.conf~) are skipped
The name:id tuple is now more consistently used in all log and debug messages instead of the basename of the command
Simplify error output of initctl start/stop/restart/signal, no more extra usage help, just a plain error message
Exit codes of initctl have changed to use LSB script standard and BSD sysexits.h exit codes. As before, a non-zero exit is error or missing
Add support for initctl -q to more commands: stop, start, restart, reload, signal, etc.

Fixes

Fix nasty 32/64-bit alignment issue between finit and its plugins, applicable to 32-bit targets with GLIBC 2.34 and later. External plugins must make sure to use, at least: -D_TIME_BITS=64
Fix #215: disable cgroup support at runtime if kernel lacks support or does not have the required controllers (cpu)
Fix #217: iwatcher initialization issue, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Fix #218: initctl matches too many services, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Fix #219: not all filesystems unmounted at shutdown, by Ming Liu, Mathias Thore, and Robert Andersson, Atlas Copco
Fix #226: initctl shows wrong PID for crashing services
Fix #227: reboot stalls if process stopped with [WARN]
Fix #233: initctl shows wrong status for run/task, by Sergio Morlans and Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Fix #248: source env:file also in pre: and post scripts
Fix #260: drop limit on device name in Checking filesystem... output
Fix start/stop and monitoring (restart) of SysV init scripts and forking services, see the updated documentation for details
Fix call to swapoff at shutdown, does not support -e flag
Fix suspend to RAM issue. Previously reboot(RB_SW_SUSPEND) was used, now the modern /sys/power/state API is used instead.
Fix nasty run/task/service matcher bug, triggered by stanzas using the same basename of a command but different :ID. Caused Finit to match with already registered but different run/task/service

finit - Finit v4.3-rc2

Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

Critical bug fix release. If you run a 32-bit target with GLIBC 2.34 you need to upgrade!

Note: system verbosity on console at start and shutdown has been
increased. Now the output of all commands is logged to the
system logger, for early services /dev/kmsg is used.

Also: please notice the updated support for enabling and disabling
kernel and Finit debug messages on the system console. Very
useful when debugging either of them, e.g., a kernel module.
For details, see cmdline.md.

Changes

Support for overriding default runlevel from kernel command line. Any runlevel [1-9] may be selected, except 6 (reboot). Issue #261
New command line option: finit.fstab=/etc/fstab.custom, with full support for mounting, mount helpers, fsck, and swapon/off, issue #224
Support for special device /dev/root, which may not exist in /dev. Finit now looks up the matching block device for / in /sys/block/
Loading modules no longer shows arguments in progress output
Warning messages in progress output now in yellow, not red, issue #214
initctl, new command line option -V,--version for ease of use
New condition done for run task, issue #207 by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Refactor parts of shutdown and reboot sequence for PREEMPT-RT kernels, by Robert Andersson, Mathias Thore, and Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Conditions for run/task/sysv status, e.g. run/foo/success and task/bar/failure. Issue #232, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Conditions for services, can be used to synchronize other stanzas:
- service/foo/running
- service/foo/halted
- service/foo/missing
- service/foo/crashed
- service/foo/stopped
- service/foo/busy
- service/foo/restart
initctl signal support, by Jörgen Sigvardsson, issue #225
initctl cond get support to match cond [set | clear], issue #255
[WARN] messages on console now printed in yellow, issue #214
Network services now also stopped when going to runlevel 6 (reboot), not just runlevel 0 (shutdown) or 1 (single-user)
When ifup is missing on the system, bring at least lo up at boot
Log output from ifup -a (and ifdown -a), to syslog
Avoid blocking PID 1 when starting SysV init scripts
Allow custom pid: for SysV init scripts
Document supported types of forking/non-forking services
Auto-detect running in some common forms of containers
Simplify shutdown/reboot when running in a container
Log to stderr when running in a container w/o syslog daemon
Add support for type:forking to services, already supported but with a very difficult pid: syntax, issue #223. Docs updated
Support for setting global environment variables in finit.conf, please note: this also affects Finit itself, be careful!
Extended environment variables for pre/post scripts, issue #189
Document secret service option respawn, which bypasses the crash semantics, allowing endless restarts
Document secret HOOK_BANNER, the first hook point before the banner
New plugin: hook-scripts, allows run-parts(8) style scripts to run on any hook point. Contributed by Tobias Waldekranz
initctl (reboot) falls back to -f when it detects it is in sulogin recovery mode, issue #247
The bundled sulogin is no longer enabled by default, in favor of distribution versions. Enable with ./configure --with-sulogin
Support args to sysv-like scripts, e.g. bridge-stp br0 start
The modules-load plugin now skips all lines starting with # and ;. Furthermore, files in /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf are now read in lexicographic order and UNIX backup files (foo.conf~) are skipped
The name:id tuple is now more consistently used in all log and debug messages instead of the basename of the command

Fixes

Fix nasty 32/64-bit alignment issue between finit and its plugins, applicable to 32-bit targets with GLIBC 2.34 and later. External plugins must make sure to use, at least: -D_TIME_BITS=64
Fix #215: disable cgroup support at runtime if kernel lacks support or does not have the required controllers (cpu)
Fix #217: iwatcher initialization issue, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Fix #218: initctl matches too many services, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Fix #219: not all filesystems unmounted at shutdown, by Ming Liu, Mathias Thore, and Robert Andersson, Atlas Copco
Fix #226: initctl shows wrong PID for crashing services
Fix #227: reboot stalls if process stopped with [WARN]
Fix #233: initctl shows wrong status for run/task, by Sergio Morlans and Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Fix #248: source env:file also in pre: and post scripts
Fix #260: drop limit on device name in Checking filesystem...` output
Fix start/stop and monitoring (restart) of SysV init scripts and forking services, see the updated documentation for details
Fix call to swapoff at shutdown, does not support -e flag
Fix suspend to RAM issue. Previously reboot(RB_SW_SUSPEND) was used, now the modern /sys/power/state API is used instead.
Fix nasty run/task/service matcher bug, triggered by stanzas using the same basename of a command but different :ID. Caused Finit to match with already registered but different run/task/service

finit - Finit v4.3-rc1

Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

Critical bug fix release. If you run a 32-bit target with GLIBC 2.34 you need to upgrade!

Note: system verbosity on console at start and shutdown has been
increased. Now the output of all commands is logged to the
system logger, for early services /dev/kmsg is used.

Also: please notice the updated support for enabling and disabling
kernel and Finit debug messages on the system console. Very
useful when debugging either of them, e.g., a kernel module.
For details, see cmdline.md.

Changes

Loading modules no longer shows arguments in progress output
Warning messages in progress output now in yellow, not red, issue #214
initctl, new command line option -v,--version for ease of use
Extended environment variables for pre/post scripts, issue #189
New condition done for run task, issue #207 by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Refactor parts of shutdown and reboot sequence for PREEMPT-RT kernels, by Robert Andersson, Mathias Thore, and Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Conditions for run/task/sysv status, e.g. run/foo/success and task/bar/failure. Issue #232, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
initctl support for sending signals to services, by Jörgen Sigvardsson, issue #225
[WARN] messages on console now printed in yellow, issue #214
Network services now also stopped when going to runlevel 6 (reboot), not just runlevel 0 (shutdown) or 1 (single-user)
When ifup is missing on the system, bring at least lo up at boot
Log output from ifup -a (and ifdown -a), to syslog
Avoid blocking PID 1 when starting SysV init scripts
Allow custom pid: for SysV init scripts
Document supported types of forking/non-forking services
Auto-detect running in some common forms of containers
Simplify shutdown/reboot when running in a container
Log to stderr when running in a container w/o syslog daemon
Add support for type:forking to services, already supported but with a very difficult pid: syntax. Documentation updated

Fixes

Fix nasty 32/64-bit alignment issue between finit and its plugins, applicable to 32-bit targets with GLIBC 2.34 and later. External plugins must make sure to use, at least: -D_TIME_BITS=64
Fix #215: disable cgroup support at runtime if kernel lacks support or does not have the required controllers (cpu)
Fix #217: iwatcher initialization issue, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Fix #218: initctl matches too many services, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Fix #219: not all filesystems unmounted at shutdown, by Ming Liu, Mathias Thore, and Robert Andersson, Atlas Copco
Fix #226: initctl shows wrong PID for crashing services
Fix #227: reboot stalls if process stopped with [WARN]
Fix #233: initctl shows wrong status for run/task, by Sergio Morlans and Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Fix start/stop of SysV init scripts
Fix call to swapoff at shutdown, does not support -e flag
Fix suspend to RAM issue. Previously reboot(RB_SW_SUSPEND) was used, now the modern /sys/power/state API is used instead.

finit - Finit v4.2

Published by github-actions[bot] almost 3 years ago

The "Try before you buy!" release. For more information, see this blog post.

Changes

Support for non-root users to use initctl, e.g. group wheel
Support for new libite (-lite) header namespace
RTC plugin now reset an invalid RTC time to the kernel default time, 2000-01-01 00:00, prevents errors and is less crazy than some systems coming with with <= Jan 1, 1970
urandom plugin now use RNDADDENTROPY ioctl to seed kernel rng, incrementing entropy count. Also, 32 kiB instead of 512 bytes are now saved (and restored) on reboot. This should greatly improve reliability of systems with none or poor HWRNG
Kernel logging to console (loglevel >= 7, debug, when quiet mode is not used) is now honored by Finit, regardless of the finit.debug command line option
Reduced default log level from LOG_NOTICE to LOG_INFO
Wrapped all calls to mount(2) to add logging in case of failure
New configure options to control fastboot (no fsck) and fsck fix options, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Support for overriding default /etc/nologin file with an external #define, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Support for overriding default /var/run/dbus/pid file with an external #define, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Support for more service options to control respawn behavior of crashing services, by Robert Andersson and Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Support for initctl ident [NAME] which lists all instances of NAME, or all enabled system run/tasks and services
Show number of total restarts and current respawn count for a service in initctl status foo
Crashing services no longer have the crash/restart counter reset as soon as they have stabilized. Instead, a background timer will slowly (every 300 sec) age (decrement) the counter. This will still catch services that "rage quit", but also those that crash after a longer period of activity

Fixes

Fix #180: user managed (manual:yes) services accidentally started by initctl reload, regression introduced in Finit v4.0
Fix #181: lots of typos all over the tree, by David Yang, Debian
Fix #187: fix typos, incl. small cleanup, in doc/bootstrap.md
Fix #188: support running on kernels that do not have cgroups v2. When this is detect, all functions related to cgroups support in Finit are disabled, except the .conf file parser. Hence, you may get parse error if you have invalid cgroup configuration in your Finit .conf files
Fix #197: initctl status foo now shows a focused overview of all matching instances; foo:1, foo:2 -- if only one instance matches the command line argument, or if onle one instance exists, the detailed view is shown, as before
Fix #198: a few typos found by Tim Gates
Fix #199: avoid using C++ reserved keywords
Fix #201: memory leak in usr condition plugin, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
Fix #203: ensure all filesystems listed in /proc/mounts are properly unumounted on shutdown/reboot, by Robert Andersson, Atlas Copco
Fix #210: resizing terminal (smaller) after boot causes empty lines to be inserted between boot progress
Fix #211: drop hard-coded 32 character limit in getty, now reads _SC_LOGIN_NAME_MAX from sysconf(3)
Fix #212: service PID file lost after inictl reload, visible from the output from initctl status foo

finit - Finit v4.1

Published by troglobit over 3 years ago

Bug fix release. Also disables handlers for SIGINT and SIGPWR, a new set of sys conditions are instead generated which can be used to trigger external programs.

Changes

Change behavior on SIGUSR1 to be compatible with sysvinit and systemd. Previously SIGUSR1 caused Finit to halt, like BusyBox init. This had "interesting" side effects on Debian systems when coexisting with sysvinit (upgrading/reinstalling causes scripts to kill -USR1 1)
Change how contrib/debian/install.sh sets up a Grub boot entry for finit. We now modify the $SUPPORTED_INITS variable in 10_linux
Disable default kernel ctrl-alt-delete handler and let Finit instead catch SIGINT from kernel to be able to perform a proper reboot. There is no default command for this, you need to set up a task that triggers on <sys/key/ctrlaltdel> to issue initctl reboot
Added keventd to provide <sys/pwr/ac> condition to Finit. keventd is currently only responsible for monitoring /sys/class/power_supply for changes to active AC mains power online status. Enable keventd with configure --with-keventd
For handling power fail events (from UPS and similar) a process may send SIGPWR to PID 1. Finit no longer redirects this to SIGUSR1 (poweroff). There is no default command for this, you need to set up a task that triggers on <sys/pwr/fail> to issue initctl poweroff
Built-in Finit getty is now a standalone program
Default termios for TTYs now enable IUTF8 on input
If /bin/login is not found, Finit now tries sulogin before it falls back to an unauthenticated /bin/sh
Dropped (broken) support for multiple consoles. Finit now follows the default console selected by the kernel, /dev/console
Dropped signal handlers for SIGSTOP/TSTP and SIGCONT
Added support for \n, in addition to \r, in "Please press Enter" prompt before starting getty
Finit no longer parses /proc/cmdline for its options. Instead all options are by default now read from argv[], like a normal program, this is also what the kernel does by default. Please note, this may not work if your systems boots with an initramfs (ymmv), for such cases, see configure --enable-kernel-cmdline
The following plugins are now possible to disable (for containers): rtc.so, urandom.so, you may also want to disable hotplug.so. They are all enabled by default, as in Finit 4.0, but may be moved to external tools or entries in finit.conf in Finit 5.0
Added support for reading PRETTY_NAME from /etc/os-release to use as heading in progress output, unless --with-heading=GREET is used.
Added manual pages for finit(8), initctl(8), and finit.conf(5)

Fixes

Stricter interface name validation in netlink plugin, modeled after the kernel. Suggested by Coverity Scan
Fix problem of re-registering a service as a task. Previously, if a fundamental change, like type, was made to an active service/run/task it did not take. Only possible workaround was to remove from config
initctl: drop warning when removing a non-existing usr condition
initctl: drop confusing errno 0 when timing out waiting for reply
Ensure services in plugins and from Finit main belong to a cgroup
Ensure init top-level cgroup remains a leaf group
Fix tty parse error for detecting use of external getty
Fix default name: and :ID for tty's, e.g. ttyS0 now gives tty:S0 as expected. This was default for built-in getty already
Fix max username (32 chars) in bundled Finit getty
The contrib/*/install.sh scripts failed to run from tarball
Finit no longer forcibly mounts; /dev, /proc, or /sys, instead it checks first if they are already mounted (devtmpfs or container)
Fix /etc/fstab parser to properly check for 'ro' to not remount the root filesystem at boot. The wrong field was read, so a root mounted by an initramfs, or by lxc for a container, had their root remounted
Fix SIGCHLD handler, waitpd() may be interrupted by a signal
Reset starting flag of services being stopped. When a service is started and then stopped before it has created its pid file, it could be left forever in the stopping state, unless we reset the starting flag.
Fix #170: detect loss of default route when interfaces go down. This emulates the missing kernel netlink message to remove the condition net/default/route to allow stopping dependent services
Fix #171: restore automatic mount of /dev/shm, /dev/pts, /run and /tmp, unless mounted already by /etc/fstab. This is what most desktop systems expect PID 1 to do. Here we also make sure to mount /run/lock as a tmpfs as well, with write perms for regular users, this prevents regular users from filling up /run and causing DoS.
Fix #173: netlink plugin runs out of socket buffer space;
```
  finit[1]: nl_callback():recv(): No buffer space available
```
Fixed by adding support for resync with kernel on ENOBUFS. See netlink(7) for details. As a spin-off the plugin now supports any number of interfaces and routes on a system. On resync, the following message is now logged, as a warning:
```
  finit[1]: nl_callback():busy system, resynchronizing with kernel.
```
Fix #174: loss of log messages using combo of prio and facility, e.g., logit(LOG_CONSOLE | LOG_NOTICE, ...), by Jacques de Laval, Westermo
Fix #175: ensure Finit does not acquire a controlling TTY when checking if a device is a TTY before starting a getty. This fixes an old bug where Ctrl-C after logout from a shell could cause PID 1 to get SIGINT, which in turn could lead to a system reboot

finit - Finit v4.1-rc2

Published by troglobit over 3 years ago

Bug fix release for Debian and buildroot based containers. Also disables handlers for SIGINT and SIGPWR, a new set of sys conditions are instead generated which can be used to trigger external programs.

Changes

Change behavior on SIGUSR1 to be compatible with sysvinit and systemd. Previously SIGUSR1 caused Finit to halt, like BusyBox init. This had "interesting" side effects on Debian systems when coexisting with sysvinit (upgrading/reinstalling causes scripts to kill -USR1 1)
Change how contrib/debian/install.sh sets up a Grub boot entry for finit. We now modify the $SUPPORTED_INITS variable in 10_linux
Disable default kernel ctrl-alt-delete handler and let Finit instead catch SIGINT from kernel to be able to perform a proper reboot.
There is no default command for this, you need to set up a task that triggers on <sys/key/ctrlaltdel> to issue initctl reboot
Added keventd to provide <sys/pwr/ac> condition to Finit. keventd is currently only responsible for monitoring /sys/class/power_supply for changes to active AC mains power online status. Enable keventd with configure --with-keventd
For handling power fail events (from UPS and similar) a process may send SIGPWR to PID 1. Finit no longer redirects this to SIGUSR1 (poweroff). There is no default command for this, you need to set up a task that triggers on <sys/pwr/fail> to issue initctl poweroff
Built-in Finit getty is now a standalone program
Default termios for TTYs now enable IUTF8 on input
If /bin/login is not found, Finit now tries sulogin before it falls back to an unauthenticated /bin/sh
Dropped (broken) support for multiple consoles. Finit now follows the default console selected by the kernel, /dev/console
Finit no longer parses /proc/cmdline for its options. Instead all options are by default now read from argv[], like a normal program, this is also what the kernel does by default. Please note, this may not work if your systems boots with an initramfs (ymmv), for such cases, see configure --enable-kernel-cmdline
The following plugins are now possible to disable (for containers): rtc.so, urandom.so, you may also want to disable hotplug.so. They are all enabled by default, as in Finit 4.0, but may be moved to external tools or entries in finit.conf in Finit 5.0

Fixes

Stricter interface name validation in netlink plugin, modeled after the kernel. Suggested by Coverity Scan
Fix problem of re-registering a service as a task. Previously, if a fundamental change, like type, was made to an active service/run/task it did not take. Only possible workaround was to remove from config
initctl: drop warning when removing a non-existing usr condition
initctl: drop confusing errno 0 when timing out waiting for reply
Ensure services in plugins and from Finit main belong to a cgroup
Ensure init top-level cgroup remains a leaf group
Fix tty parse error for detecting use of external getty
Fix default name: and :ID for tty's, e.g. ttyS0 now gives tty:S0 as expected. This was default for built-in getty already
Fix max username (32 chars) in bundled Finit getty
The contrib/*/install.sh scripts failed to run from tarball
Finit no longer forcibly mounts; /dev, /proc, or /sys, instead it checks first if they are already mounted (devtmpfs or container)
Fix /etc/fstab parser to properly check for 'ro' to not remount the root filesystem at boot. The wrong field was read, so a root mounted by an initramfs, or by lxc for a container, had their root remounted
Fix #170: detect loss of default route when interfaces go down. This emulates the missing kernel netlink message to remove the condition net/default/route to allow stopping dependent services
Fix #171: restore automatic mount of /dev/shm, /dev/pts, /run and /tmp, unless mounted already by /etc/fstab. This is what most desktop systems expect PID 1 to do. Here we also make sure to mount /run/lock as a tmpfs as well, with write perms for regular users, this prevents regular users from filling up /run and causing DoS.
Fix #173: netlink plugin runs out of socket buffer space;
```
  finit[1]: nl_callback():recv(): No buffer space available
```
Fixed by adding support for resync with kernel on ENOBUFS. See netlink(7) for details. As a spin-off the plugin now supports any number of interfaces and routes on a system. On resync, the following message is now logged, as a warning:
```
  finit[1]: nl_callback():busy system, resynchronizing with kernel.
```
Fix #174: loss of log messages using combo of prio and facility, e.g., logit(LOG_CONSOLE | LOG_NOTICE, ...), by Jacques de Laval, Westermo
Fix #175: ensure Finit does not acquire a controlling TTY when checking if a device is a TTY before starting a getty. This fixes an old bug where Ctrl-C after logout from a shell could cause PID 1 to get SIGINT, which in turn could lead to a system reboot

finit - Finit v4.1-rc1

Published by troglobit over 3 years ago

Bug fix release.

Changes

Change behavior on SIGUSR1 to be compatible with sysvinit and systemd. Previously SIGUSR1 caused Finit to halt, like BusyBox init. This had "interesting" side effects on Debian systems when coexisting with sysvinit (upgrading/reinstalling causes scripts to kill -USR1 1)
Change how contrib/debian/install.sh sets up a Grub boot entry for finit. We now modify the $SUPPORTED_INITS variable in 10_linux

Fixes

Stricter interface name validation in netlink plugin, modeled after the kernel. Suggested by Coverity Scan
The contrib/*/install.sh scripts failed to run from tarball
Fix #170: detect loss of default route when interfaces go down. This emulates the missing kernel netlink message to remove the condition
net/default/route to allow stopping dependent services
Fix #171: restore automatic mount of /dev/shm, /dev/pts, /run and /tmp, unless mounted already by /etc/fstab. This is what most
desktop systems expect PID 1 to do

finit - Finit v4.0

Published by troglobit over 3 years ago

This release became v4.0, and not v3.2, because of incompatible changes to service conditions. There are other significant changes as well, so make sure to read the whole change log when upgrading.

Changes

The stand-alone reboot tool has been replaced with a symlink to initctl, like its siblings: halt, shutdown, poweroff, and suspend. Calling reboot & C:o now defaults to the corresponding initctl cmd with a fallback to sending signals as per traditional SysV init. The -f (force) flag remains, where reboot(2) is called directly
Introducing Finit progress 𝓜𝓸𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓷
The inictl cond set|clear COND have changed completely. Constrained to a flat <usr/...> namespace and automatically activated by a new usr.so plugin that checks services for usr condition changes
Removed built-in inetd super server. If you need this functionality, use an external inetd, like xinetd, instead. A pull request for a stand-alone inetd, like watchdogd and getty, is most welcome!
Incompatible configure script changes, i.e., no guessing --prefix and other paths. Also, many options have been changed, renamed, or flipped defaults, or even dropped altogether. There are examples in the documentation and the contrib/ section
Service conditions change from the non-obvious <svc/path/to/foo> to <pid/foo:id>. Not only does this give simpler internal semantics, it hopefully also makes it clear that one service's pid:!foo pidfile is another service's <pid/foo> condition, issue #143
Initial support for cgroups v2:
- services runs in a cgroup named after their respective *.conf file
- top-level groups are; init, user, and system
- all top-level groups can be configured from finit *.conf files
- each service can tweak the cgroup settings
- Use initctl [top|ps|cgroup] commands to inspect runtime state
- https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1214341831049252870?s=20
Major refactor of Finit's main() function to be able to start the event loop earlier. This also facilitated factoring out functionality previously hard-coded in Finit, e.g., starting the bundled watchdogd, various distro packed udevd and other hotplugging tools
A proper rescue mode has been added. It is started extremely early and is protected with a bundled suslogin. Exiting rescue mode now brings up the system as a normal boot, as one expects
Support for sysv start/stop scripts as well as monitoring forking services, stared using sysv or service stanza
Support for custom kill:DELAY, default 3 sec.
Support for custom halt:SIGNAL, default SIGTERM
Support for pre:script and post:script, allows for setup and teardown/cleanup before and after a service runs, issue #129
Support for env:file in /etc/default/foo or /etc/conf.d/foo, see the contrib section for examples that utilize this feature. Variables expanded from env files, and the env files themselves, are tracked for changes to see if a service .conf file is "dirty" and needs restart on initctl reload
Support for tracking custom PID files, using pid:!/path/to/foo.pid, useful with new sysv or service which fork to background
Support starting run/task/services without absolute path, trust $PATH
Add support for --disable-doc and --disable-contrib to speed up builds and work around issue with massively parallel builds
Support for @console also for external getty
Support for notty option to built-in getty, for board bring-up
Support for rescue option to built-in getty, for rescue shells
Add -b, batch mode, for non-interactive use to initctl
Prefer udev to handle /dev/ if mdev is also available
Redirect dbus daemon output to syslog
Set $SHELL, like $PATH, to a sane default value, needed by BusyBox
Finit no longer automatically reloads its *.conf files after running /etc/rc.local or run-parts. Use initctl reload instead.
initctl without an argument or option now defaults to list services
Convert built-in watchdog daemon to standalone mini watchdogd, issue #102
Improved watchdog hand-over, now based on svc_t and not PID
Extended bootstrap, runlevel S, timeout: 10 --> 120 sec. before services not allowed in the runtime runlevel are unconditionally stopped
Removed HOOK_SVC_START and HOOK_SVC_LOST, caused more problems than they were worth. Users are encouraged to use accounting instead
Skip displaying "Restarting ..." progress for bootstrap processes
Added a simple work queue mechanism to queue up work at boot + runtime
- Postpone deletion of svc_t until any SIGKILL timer has elapsed
- As long as a stepped service changes state we queue another step all event, because services may depend on each other
Require new libuEv API: uev_init1() to reduce event cache so that the kernel can invalidate deleted events before enqueing to userspace
Rename hwclock.so plugin to rtc.so since it now is stand-alone from the hwclock tool. Note: the kernel can also be set to load and store RTC to/from system clock at boot/halt as well, issue #110
New plugin to support cold plugging devices, auto-loading of modules at boot. Detects required modules by reading /sys/devices/*
New plugin for /etc/modules-load.d/ by Robert Andersson, Atlas Copco
New name:foo support for services, by Robert Andersson, Atlas Copco
New manual:yes support for services, by Robert Andersson, Atlas Copco
New log:console support for services, by Robert Andersson, Atlas Copco
Support for :ID as a string, by Jonas Johansson, Westermo
Support for auto-reload, instead of having to do initctl reload, when a service configuration has changed. Disabled by default, but can be enabled with ./configure --enable-auto-reload
Support for logging security related events, e.g., runlevel change, start/stop or failure to start services, by Jonas Holmberg, Westermo
Mount devtpts with recommended ptxmode=0666
Mount /run tmpfs with nosuid,nodev,noexec for added security
Support for console as alias for @console in tty stanzas
Drop --enable-rw-roots configure option, use rw for your / partition in /etc/fstab instead to trigger remount at boot
Drop default tty speed (38400) and use 0 (kernel default) instead
Make :ID optional, use NULL/zero internally this allows ...
Handle use-cases where multiple services share the same PID file and thus the same condition path, e.g. different instances for different runlevels. Allow custom condition path with name:foo syntax, creates conditions w/o a path, and ...
Always append :ID qualifier to conditions if set for a service
The IPC socket has moved from /run/finit.sock to /run/finit/socket officially only supported for use by the initctl tool
The IPC socket now uses SOCK_SEQPACKET instead of SOCK_STREAM.
Recommend using watchdogd v3.4, or later, which support this
Improved support for modern /etc/network/interfaces, which has include statements. No more native ifup of individual interfaces,
Finit now calls ifup -a, or ifdown -a, delegating all details to the operating system. Also, this is now done in the background, by popular request

Fixes

Fix #96: Start udevd as a proper service
Ensure we track run commands as well as task/service, once per runlevel
Ensure run/tasks also go to stopping state on exit, like services, otherwise it is unnecessarily hard to restart them
Fix missing OS/Finit title bug, adds leading newline before banner
Remove "Failed connecting to watchdog ..." error message on systems that do not have a watchdog
Fix #100: Early condition handling may not work if /var/run does not yet exist (symlink to /run). Added compat layer for access
Fix #101: Built-in inetd removed
Fix #102: Start built-in watchdogd as a regular service
Fix #103: Register multiple getty if @console resolves to >1 TTY,
Fix #105: Only remove /etc/nologin when moving from runlevel 0, 1, 6. Fixed by Jonas Johansson, Westermo
Fix #109: Support for PID files in sub-directories to /var/run
Handle rename of PID files, by Robert Andersson, Atlas Copco
Fix #110: automatic modprobe of RTC devices, built-in hwclock
Fix #120: Redirect stdin to /dev/null for services by default
Fix #122: Switch to nanosleep() to achieve "signal safe" sleep. Fixed by Jacques de Laval, Westermo
Fix #124: Lingering processes in process group when session leader exits. E.g., lingering logit processes when parent dies
Fix #127: Show all runparts scripts as they start, like rc.local. Fixed by Jacques de Laval, Westermo
Fix service name matching, e.g. for condition handling, may match with wrong service. Fixed by Jonas Holmberg, Westermo
Run all run-parts scripts using /bin/sh -c foo just like the standard run-parts tool. Found by Magnus Malm, Westermo
Fix initctl [start | restart], should behave the same for services that have crashed. Found by Mattias Walström, Westermo
Wait for bootstrap phase to complete before cleaning out any bootstrap processes that have stopped, they may be restarted again
Reassert condition when an unmodified run/task/service goes from WAITING back to RUNNING again after a reconfiguration event. Found and fixed by Jonas Johansson, Westermo
Restore Ctrl-D and Ctrl-U support in built-in getty
Remove service condition when service is deleted
Fix C++ compilation issues, by Robert Andersson, Atlas Copco
Build fixes for uClibc
Provide service description for built-in watchdog daemon
Fix #138: Handle SIGPWR like SIGSUR2, i.e., power off the system
Drop the '%m' GNUism, for compat with older musl libc
Fix #139: call tzset() on initctl reload to activate system timezone changes (for logging)

finit - Finit v4.0-rc4

Published by troglobit over 3 years ago

This is a pre-release, for internal testing at Westermo at the moment. Version 4.0 replaces the previously planned 3.2 because of major changes, for instance; removal of the built-in inetd, incompatible changes to kernel command options and configure script. See the changelog for more detailed information. A fully up-to-date list of changes is expected for the GA release.

finit - Finit v4.0-rc3

Published by troglobit over 3 years ago

finit - Finit v4.0-rc2

Published by troglobit over 3 years ago

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