GNU Pies NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2016-01-03 Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Sergey Poznyakoff See the end of file for copying conditions. Please send Pies bug reports to or Version 1.2.92 (Git) * Control interface * SysV init support * New flags - siggroup This flag instructs pies to send termination signal to the process group of the process being stopped. - nullinput Do not close standard input. Redirect it from /dev/null instead. Use this option with commands that require their standard input to be open (e.g. pppd nodetach). Version 1.2, 2009-12-11 * First release as a GNU package. * Full inetd support The program supports all types of services (including built-in ones) and all types of protocols offered by the traditional `inetd' utility. The `inetd.conf' configuration file format is supported. The `inetd' configuration file may be supplied either from the command line (see below), or via the `include-inetd' configuration statement. * Inetd replacement A replacement script for inetd(8) is provided. It is fully compatible with the traditional inetd command line, but offers the flexibility and new features of pies. * Configuration file handling Several configuration files, eventually of different types, can be specified in the command line. New command line option `--syntax' declares the syntax of configuration files that follow it, e.g.: pies --config-file /etc/pies.conf \ --syntax=inetd --config-file /etc/inetd.conf \ --syntax=meta1 --config-file /etc/meta1/meta1.conf * New keywords. Component keywords: flags, service, socket-type, max-instances, max-rate, qotd-file. Global keywords: state-directory, include-inetd. * New option --instance The `--instance' option allows you to run several instances of pies, each of them using separate configuration and state files. * New option --rate For compatibility with inetd. * Improved status output. Version 1.1, 2009-10-20 * Account for possible system clock inaccuracies. * Improve documentation. * Add Polish and Ukrainian translations. Version 1.0, 2009-10-17 First stand-alone release. Previous versions were released as part of Mailfromd (http://mailfromd.software.gnu.org.ua). ========================================================================= Copyright information: Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Sergey Poznyakoff Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp) time-stamp-start: "changes. " time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d" time-stamp-end: "\n" end: