Re: SysVinit v2.66

Rob Glover (potato@dsnet.com)
Mon, 2 Dec 1996 19:51:31 -0800 (PST)


On 1 Dec 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

>
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.961201110222.176A-100000@dial-sc2-6.iway.aimnet.com>,
> Rob Glover <potato@dsnet.com> wrote:
> >
> >Hi all, I installed SysVinit 2.66, and had to go back to 2.64 after i saw
> >a problem. When I booted with 2.66, no daemons would load <i.e. sendmail,
> >gpm, icmpinfo, etc etc...>. I tried booting numerous time, to no avail.
> >I then re-installed SysVinit 2.64, and everything was working again.
>
> Yes, sysvinit 2.66,67 and 68 were a bit unstable. I've just made a
> 2.69 which should solve all problems. You should be able to find it
> on most Debian mirrors in a couple of days (in debian/source/unstable/base)
> or in ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/debian/ if you need it now.
>
*Snippity Snip!*

Yes they were quite unstable. At boot, v2.68 reports itself as 2.67 ;>

-Rob