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@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ + downtimed - system downtime reporting tool + + version history + +version 0.6 released 2013-07-27 + + - Added startup scripts for Debian, Red Hat (RHEL/Fedora/Scientific + Linux/CentOS/etc.), Arch Linux and OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris. + + - Implemented -f command line option for downtimes(1) and downtimed(8). + It can be used to specify the desired time and date format for + reporting. The default remains "%F %T". + + - Implemented -u command line option for downtimes(1) for reporting + times in UTC. Analogous to "date -u". + + - GNU/Hurd compatibility fixes contributed by Mats Erik Andersson. + + - FreeBSD 9 compatibility fix by Douglas Thrift. + + +version 0.5 released 2011-03-02 + + - Fixed a bug which prevented creation of the required time stamp + files in case command line option -S was set. + + - Determine boot time on some SVR4 systems such as Solaris. + + - Compatibility for systems which do not have flock() but have lockf(), + such as Solaris. + + - Compatibility for systems without facilitynames in <syslog.h>, such + as Solaris. + + - Compatibility daemon(3) function for OSes which do not have it, such + as Solaris. + + - Compatibility for systems which lack futimes(3) function, such as + Solaris. + + - Log an error message if system boot time can not be determined. + + - Remove dependency on be64toh(3) and betoh64(3). Or betoh64(3) and + htobe64(3). Or OSSwapBigToHostInt64(3) and OSSwapHostToBigInt64(3). + The code became a mess because 64 bit byte swapping is not standardized. + + Also some commonly used GNU/Linux distributions such as RHEL/CentOS 5.5 + have such an old glibc that it does not include any of these functions. + + Now we just implement our own byte swapping macro and ignore whatever + is or is not available from the system. This improves portability + on many platforms, for example on Red Hat (RHEL) and Solaris. + + - Improve README documentation regarding startup scripts. + + - Example startup scripts have been moved to the "startup-scripts" + sub-directory. + + - openSUSE startup script by Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org>. + + - OpenBSD compatibility improvements. + + - Debian GNU/kFreeBSD compatibility improvements. + + - Use volatile sig_atomic_t if available for flags set by signal handlers. + + - Other minor fixes. + + +version 0.4 released 2010-12-25 + + - Do not create the data directory /var/{db,lib}/downtimed in the + daemon. It should be created by the system administrator or the + package maintainer instead. Problem reported by Mats Erik Andersson + <openbsd@gisladisker.se>. + + - OpenBSD support and other minor fixes by Mats Erik + Andersson <openbsd@gisladisker.se>. + + - Debian GNU/kFreeBSD support by Mats Erik Andersson + <openbsd@gisladisker.se>. + + - Change backwards lseek(2) to forward lseek(2) as the backwards seek + fails on some platforms, by Mats Erik Andersson <openbsd@gisladisker.se>. + + - Other minor fixes. + + +version 0.3 released 2010-10-26 + + - Mac OS X support by Henrik Ahlgren <pablo@seestieto.com> + + - Fix man page rendering on various OSes such as FreeBSD (we were + using non-standard .SY, .YS and .OP macros) [this has no + effect on GNU/Linux, no need to upgrade] + + - Fix printf format string to avoid compiler warnings + + +version 0.2 released 2010-09-22 + + - implemented downtimes(1) command for displaying the contents of + the downtime database in human readable format + + - implemented downtime database in the downtimed(8) daemon + + - moved the location of data files from /var/lib/misc/downtimed/ + to /var/lib/downtimed/ on Linux. + + - the default sleep time between time stamp updates is now 15 seconds + instead of 5 as previously + + - minor documentation improvements + + +version 0.1 released 2010-05-22 + + - initial release + +/* eof */ |