Helper tools from sysvinit that support booting, including but not exclusive to startpar, killproc and pidof. System V init specific programs are in the sysvinit package.
2.96
2.88
| Distribution | Version | Since | Package | Installed | Packager | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rpm | 2.88-14.dsf.el7 | 2020-01-07 | 62.8 kiB | 107 kiB | CentOS BuildSystem |
| rpm | 2.88+-lp150.1.9 | 2019-01-17 | 145 kiB | 395 kiB | https://bugs.opensuse.org |
| rpm | 2.88+-lp151.2.3 | 2019-01-23 | 144 kiB | 391 kiB | https://bugs.opensuse.org |
| rpm | 2.88+-lp152.3.3 | 2020-01-07 | 120 kiB | 391 kiB | https://bugs.opensuse.org |
| rpm | 2.88+-102.2 | 2019-01-17 | 145 kiB | 392 kiB | http://bugs.opensuse.org |
| rpm | 2.88+-103.3.1 | 2019-06-17 | 146 kiB | 396 kiB | http://bugs.opensuse.org |
| rpm | 2.96-1.1 | 2019-10-01 | 125 kiB | 385 kiB | https://bugs.opensuse.org |
Manual pages
fsync(1)
fsync - synchronize the specified file with storage device
last(1)
last, lastb - show a listing of last logged in users
mesg(1)
mesg - display (or do not display) messages from other users
startpar(1)
startpar - start runlevel scripts in parallel
usleep(1)
Usleep - sleep for the specified number of microseconds
wall(1)
wall - write a message to all users
checkproc(8)
Checkproc - Checks for a process by full path name
Pidofproc - Checks for a process by exec base name
Pidofproc - Checks for a process by exec base name
fstab-decode(8)
fstab-decode - run a command with fstab-encoded arguments
killall5(8)
killall5 -- send a signal to all processes.
killproc(8)
Killproc - Send signals to processes by full path name
mkill(8)
Mkill - Send processes making a active mount point busy a signal
pidof(8)
pidof -- find the process ID of a running program.
rvmtab(8)
Rvmtab - Sort /proc/mounts in the order of /proc/self/mountinfo
startpar(8)
startpar - start runlevel scripts in parallel
startproc(8)
Startproc - Start processes identified by path name
Start_daemon - Start processes identified by path name
Start_daemon - Start processes identified by path name
vhangup(8)
Vhangup - Cause a virtually hangup on the specified terminals
Latest updates
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 oss: Version 2.88+-lp152.3.3 introduced
2020-01-07
- Avoid spurious waring on a not existin session of a not existing process (boo#1002492)
CentOS 7.7.1908 os: Version 2.88-14.dsf.el7 introduced
2020-01-07
- Mass rebuild 2014-01-24
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Updated from 2.95-1.2 to 2.96-1.1
2019-10-01
- Update to sysvinit 2.96
- Added -z command line paramter to pidof which tells pidof to try to find processes in uninterruptable (D) or zombie (Z) states. This can cause pidof to hang, but produces a more complete process list.
- Reformatted init code to make if/while logic more clear.
- Make sure src/Makefile cleans up all executable files when parent Makefile calls "make clean".
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Updated from 2.95-1.1 to 2.95-1.2
2019-07-16
- Remove logsave as well as the manual page as those as part of package e2fsprogs already
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Updated from 2.90-3.3 to 2.95-1.1
2019-06-28
- Remove logsave as well as the manual page as those as part of package e2fsprogs already
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Updated from 2.90-2.1 to 2.90-3.3
2019-06-17
- Add patch killproc-mntinf-optional.patch to handle various optional fields of /proc/<pid>/mountinfo on the entry/ies before the hypen (bsc#1131982)
OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 update/oss: Version 2.88+-103.3.1 introduced
2019-06-17
- Add patch killproc-mntinf-optional.patch to handle various optional fields of /proc/<pid>/mountinfo on the entry/ies before the hypen (bsc#1131982)
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Updated from 2.90-1.3 to 2.90-2.1
2019-03-10
- Update to sysvinit 2.90
- Remove now upstream patches
- sysvinit-2.88+dsf-dostat.patch
- sysvinit-2.88+dsf-sulogin.diff
- sysvinit-2.88+dsf.tar.bz2
- sysvinit-2.88dsf-scripts2.patch
- Port our patches
sysvinit-2.88dsf-no-kill.patch becomes sysvinit-2.90-no-kill.patch sysvinit-2.88+dsf.dif becomes sysvinit-2.90.dif
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Updated from 2.90-1.2 to 2.90-1.3
2019-02-03
- Update to sysvinit 2.90
- Remove now upstream patches
- sysvinit-2.88+dsf-dostat.patch
- sysvinit-2.88+dsf-sulogin.diff
- sysvinit-2.88+dsf.tar.bz2
- sysvinit-2.88dsf-scripts2.patch
- Port our patches
sysvinit-2.88dsf-no-kill.patch becomes sysvinit-2.90-no-kill.patch sysvinit-2.88+dsf.dif becomes sysvinit-2.90.dif
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Version 2.90-1.2 reintroduced
2019-01-23
- Update to sysvinit 2.90
- Remove now upstream patches
- sysvinit-2.88+dsf-dostat.patch
- sysvinit-2.88+dsf-sulogin.diff
- sysvinit-2.88+dsf.tar.bz2
- sysvinit-2.88dsf-scripts2.patch
- Port our patches
sysvinit-2.88dsf-no-kill.patch becomes sysvinit-2.90-no-kill.patch sysvinit-2.88+dsf.dif becomes sysvinit-2.90.dif
OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 oss: Version 2.88+-lp151.2.3 introduced
2019-01-23
- Avoid spurious waring on a not existin session of a not existing process (boo#1002492)
OpenSUSE Leap 15.0 oss: Version 2.88+-lp150.1.9 introduced
2019-01-17
- Avoid spurious waring on a not existin session of a not existing process (boo#1002492)
OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 oss: Version 2.88+-102.2 introduced
2019-01-17
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Version 2.90-1.2 removed
2019-01-17
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Version 2.90-1.2 introduced
2019-01-17
- Update to sysvinit 2.90
- Remove now upstream patches
- sysvinit-2.88+dsf-dostat.patch
- sysvinit-2.88+dsf-sulogin.diff
- sysvinit-2.88+dsf.tar.bz2
- sysvinit-2.88dsf-scripts2.patch
- Port our patches
sysvinit-2.88dsf-no-kill.patch becomes sysvinit-2.90-no-kill.patch sysvinit-2.88+dsf.dif becomes sysvinit-2.90.dif
CentOS 7.6.1810 os: Version 2.88-14.dsf.el7 introduced
2019-01-14
- Mass rebuild 2014-01-24
CentOS 7.4.1708 os: Version 2.88-14.dsf.el7 introduced
2017-11-10
- Mass rebuild 2014-01-24
Related packages
sysvinit - Linux System V Init
sysvinit-tools-debuginfo - Debug information for package sysvinit-tools
