From 174b7f83934eecb2bbb0502e6645f55872d3e783 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:40:03 +0200 Subject: Update NEWS and README --- NEWS | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b18fee2..d4e1d6e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU Pies NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2016-02-24 +GNU Pies NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2016-03-15 Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Sergey Poznyakoff See the end of file for copying conditions. @@ -8,11 +8,26 @@ Please send Pies bug reports to or Version 1.2.93 (Git) +* SysV-style Init + +GNU Pies can now be used as init process daemon - the first process +started during booting. The configuration can be supplied both as +a traditional /etc/inittab file or as a native GNU Pies configuration +file. The control interface provides extensive monitoring and +management capabilities. + * Control interface -* SysV init support +The running GNU Pies instance can be queried and reconfigured on the +fly via a TCP socket (either UNIX or INET). Special utility, piesctl, +is included, which provides command line interface for inspecting +the state of components, reloading configuration (including addition +or removal of configuration files on the fly), stopping and restarting +components, etc. + +* Changes in configuration -* New flags +Two new flags are provided: - siggroup -- cgit v1.2.1