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-Version 1.3 Patch Level 3
-
-General. ------------------------------------------------------------------
-Update to documentation including klogd.8 manpage to reflect new features.
-
-Included patch for modules-2.0.0 package to provide support for signalling
-klogd of changes in kernel module status.
-
-klogd ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-Provided support for signalling klogd to reload static and kernel module
-symbol information via SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2.
-
-Implemented -p switch to cause a reload of kernel module symbol information
-whenever a protection fault is detected.
-
-Informative message is printed whenever klogd state change occurs.
-
-Added -i and -I switches to signal the currently executing klogd daemon
-to reload symbold information.
-
-
-Version 1.3 Patch Level 2
-
-General. ------------------------------------------------------------------
-Added oops.c and oops_test.c.  Oops.c implements a kernel loadable module
-which will generate a general protection fault.  The oops_test.c program
-generates a test program for exercising the loadable module.
-
-syslogd ------------------------------------------------------------------
-Fixed bug resulting in file descriptors being orphaned when syslogd was
-initialized via signal handler.
-
-klogd ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-Bug fix to prevent errors when reading symbol tables with 64 bit addresses.
-
-Added support for debugging of protection faults occuring in kernel
-loadable modules.
-
-
-Version 1.3 Patch Level 1
-
-General. ------------------------------------------------------------------
-Cleanups in the Makefile.
-
-Patches to support compilation in the ALPHA environment.  I have not
-been able to test these personally so if anyone has any feedback I
-would be interested in hearing from the Linux ALPHA community.
-
-Spelling and grammar corrections in the man pages.
-
-syslogd ------------------------------------------------------------------
-Patch to fix parsing of hostnames in syslogd.c.
-
-The return value of gethostbyname is now properly checked.  This should
-fix the problems with core dumps when name resolution failed.
-
-Bounds error fixed when setting the file descriptors for UNIX domain
-sockets.
-
-klogd ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-Error checking and reporting enhanced.  I have a couple of reports
-that klogd is experiencing errors when reading the /proc filesystem.
-Any additional information would be appreciated.
-
-The sys_syslog function has been renamed to ksyslog.  This was in a
-set patches for ALPHA support so I am assuming that this is necessary
-for that environment
-
-
-Version 1.3 
-
-Numerous changes, performance enhancements, code cleanups and bug fixes.
-Too many to individually summarize.  Have a look at the top of each
-source file for more information.
-
-** Default behavior of sysklogd is not to accept any message that
-is sent via syslog/udp.  To allow remote reception add -r to the
-command-line arguments.
-
-** Spaces are now accepted in the syslog configuration file.  This
-should be a real crowd pleaser.
-
-syslogd now uses dynamic allocation of logging output descriptors.
-There is no longer a static limit on the number of log destinations
-that can be defined.
-
-klogd supports on-the-fly kernel address to symbol translations.
-This requires that a valid kernel symbol map be found at execution.
-
-** The default level for console log messages was changed to 6.  This
-means that kernel messages with a priority less than or equal to 5
-(KERN_NOTICE) will be logged to the console.
-
-	This item has been flagged because it results in a behavior
-	change which will be different if version 1.3 replaces an
-	existing 1.2 binary.  Linus strongly suggested that this
-	behavior be changed and in the 1.3.3x kernels Linus in fact
-	made it impossible to set the console log level lower than
-	about 5.
-
-	There were good reasons from his perspective for doing so.
-	The most troublesome being that user's of packaged
-	distributions were not able to generate register dumps with
-	the kernel debugging keys, most notably altgr-SCRLCK.
-
-	If a kernels prior to 1.3.3x are being used the klogd daemon
-	invocation must be changed to something like: klogd -c 1
-	
-	This will turn off logging of kernel messages to the console.
-	If you understand the ramifications of this the 1.3.3x kernels
-	can be patched to allow the suppression of console log
-	messages.  It is important to be cognizant of the effects of
-	these changes.  None the least of which is that Linus and Alan
-	will yell at you if you complain about not being able to
-	generate kernel debugging information.. :-)
-
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-Version 1.2
-Fixes to both klogd and syslogd so that the package will compile without
-errors due to the vararg procedures.
-
-Modified pid files produced so that the names of the files are
-klogd.pid and syslogd.pid respectively.
-
-Fixed bug in klogd which prevented output from being directed to a file
-when the program was compiled to auto-background itself.  In the
-auto-backgrounding configuration the forked process was closing all its
-file descriptors which was causing the errant behavior.
-
-Modified signal handling in klogd so that all signal are set to ignored
-before establishing specific signal handlers.
-
-Fixed bug in syslogd which was causing a delay in opening of the /dev/log
-UNIX domain socket.  This should correct the race condition which was
-preventing klogd from properly logging kernel messages when the two
-daemons were started in rapid succession.
-
-Modified the closing/opening of file descriptors when syslogd was
-compiled with auto-backgrounding support.  Closes the potential for
-a somewhat obscure bug caused by the /dev/log socket being opened on
-fd 0.
-
-Changed the names of the man pages from an extension of 1 to 8.
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-Version 1.1
-Extensive changes and additional functionality added to klogd.  Please
-see sources and man-pages for documentation.
-
-Fixed bugs in both syslogd and klogd with respect to fragmented
-message re-assembly.  Bootup messages should now be display properly.
-
-Fixed bug in syslogd which prevented proper logging of messages with
-priority classes of none and emerg.
-
-Fixed bug which caused core dump when messages were logged to users.
-Also fixed bug with messages to login type of LOGIN.
-
-Fixed problem with zombies being left when messages were logged to
-multiple users.
-
-Enhanced functionality of syslog_tst program.
-
-Added man-pages.
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-Version 1.0
+Version 0.8.0
 
-Initial release.
+Initial testing release.
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