MFC noted: acct(2) appends to file.

New release notes: cp(1) -n, biff(1)/mesg(1) redirect stdin to affect
		   another tty.

Reviewed by:	bmah
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Johan Karlsson 2002-07-25 02:18:41 +00:00
parent 42f3352b5c
commit 60a9ad5cdd
2 changed files with 38 additions and 2 deletions

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<para>&man.acct.2; has been changed to open the accounting file in
append mode, so that &man.accton.8; can be used to enable
accounting to an append-only file.</para>
accounting to an append-only file. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386" role="historic">The &man.amdpm.4; driver has been added to
provide access to the system monitoring functions of the AMD 756
@ -1972,6 +1972,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
not disturb the terminal contents as <command>biff y</command>
would).</para>
<para>&man.biff.1; now uses the first terminal associated with the
standard input, standard output or standard error file
descriptor, in that order. Thus, it is possible to use the
redirection facilities of a shell (<command>biff n &lt;
/dev/ttyp1</command>) to toggle the notification for other
terminals.</para>
<para arch="pc98" role="historic">&man.boot98cfg.8;, a PC-98 boot manager
installation and configuration utility, has been
added. &merged;</para>
@ -2068,6 +2075,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para role="historic">A number of buffer overflows in &man.config.8; have been
fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.cp.1; now takes a (nonstandard) <option>-n</option>
option to automatically answer <quote>no</quote> when it would
ask to overwrite a file.</para>
<para>A new &man.csplit.1; utility, which splits files based on
context, has been added.</para>
@ -2608,6 +2619,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> to the default options in
<filename>/etc/defaults/rc.conf</filename>. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.mesg.1; now conforms to SUSv3. Among other things, it
now uses the first terminal associated with the standard input,
standard output or standard error file descriptor, in that order.
Thus, it is possible to use the redirection facilities of a shell
(<command>mesg n &lt; /dev/ttyp1</command>) to control write access
for other terminals.</para>
<para role="historic">mk_cmds(1) and the associated
<filename>libss</filename> have been removed; they have been
unused for quite some time. &merged;</para>

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<para>&man.acct.2; has been changed to open the accounting file in
append mode, so that &man.accton.8; can be used to enable
accounting to an append-only file.</para>
accounting to an append-only file. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386" role="historic">The &man.amdpm.4; driver has been added to
provide access to the system monitoring functions of the AMD 756
@ -1972,6 +1972,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
not disturb the terminal contents as <command>biff y</command>
would).</para>
<para>&man.biff.1; now uses the first terminal associated with the
standard input, standard output or standard error file
descriptor, in that order. Thus, it is possible to use the
redirection facilities of a shell (<command>biff n &lt;
/dev/ttyp1</command>) to toggle the notification for other
terminals.</para>
<para arch="pc98" role="historic">&man.boot98cfg.8;, a PC-98 boot manager
installation and configuration utility, has been
added. &merged;</para>
@ -2068,6 +2075,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para role="historic">A number of buffer overflows in &man.config.8; have been
fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.cp.1; now takes a (nonstandard) <option>-n</option>
option to automatically answer <quote>no</quote> when it would
ask to overwrite a file.</para>
<para>A new &man.csplit.1; utility, which splits files based on
context, has been added.</para>
@ -2608,6 +2619,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> to the default options in
<filename>/etc/defaults/rc.conf</filename>. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.mesg.1; now conforms to SUSv3. Among other things, it
now uses the first terminal associated with the standard input,
standard output or standard error file descriptor, in that order.
Thus, it is possible to use the redirection facilities of a shell
(<command>mesg n &lt; /dev/ttyp1</command>) to control write access
for other terminals.</para>
<para role="historic">mk_cmds(1) and the associated
<filename>libss</filename> have been removed; they have been
unused for quite some time. &merged;</para>