util-linux-2.7.tar.gz (source only distribution) READ the README file and the stuff below. util-linux-2.7.tar.gz (source only distribution) NOTE: Before installing util-linux. READ the README or risk nuking your system. Thank you. Util-linux is a suite of essential utilities for any Linux system. It's primary audience is system integrators (like the people at RedHat) and DIY Linux hackers. The rest of you will get a digested version of util-linux installed with no risk to your sanity. Version 2.7 of util-linux is mostly a bugfix release. But several utilities that appear in other packages have been removed and hwclock(8) has replaced clock(8) entirely. Util-linux is attempting to be portable, but the only platform it has been tested much on is linux/intel. There have however been integrated several patches for Arm, m68k, and Alpha linux versions. The present version is known to compile on at least Linux 1.2/libc 4 and Linux 2.0/Libc 5 and has also been tested with libc 6 on intel, alpha and sparc. People are encouraged to make _nice_ patches to util-linux and submitting them to util-linux@math.uio.no. Thank you. [To be more precise, earlier versions of util-linux did compile on Linux 1.2/libc 4. The present version contains at least one obstacle: the routine snprintf() is not available in libc 4.5.26, but it is in 4.6.27.] Util-Linux 2.7 is imediately available from ftp.math.uio.no:/pub/linux, and sunsite.uio.no:/pub/unix/linux/packages/util-linux, and will appear at sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc, as well as tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/utils when the people in charge there get time. Nicolai Langfeldt