ConMan Release Notes
conman-0.2.1
(2007-05-24):
Added console script for Sun ILOM.
Fixed minor issues with existing console scripts.
conman-0.2.0
(2007-05-02):
Changed project homepage to <http://home.gna.org/conman/>.
Added support for consoles to be driven by an external process.
Added console scripts for Cyclades, IBM BladeCenter, IPMI SOL, SSH.
Added SERVER EXECPATH config directive.
Added '-F' cmdline opt to daemon for running in the foreground.
Changed daemon behavior to return fatal errors to shell if possible.
Sanitized environment variables and closed unneeded fds in child processes.
Fixed potential deadlock bug in signal handlers.
conman-0.1.9.2
(2006-06-26):
Fixed bug where a failed telnet connection would segfault the daemon.
Optimized main I/O polling loop.
conman-0.1.9.1 (2006-05-25):
Fixed rpm spec file to include sysconfig/defaults file.
conman-0.1.9 (2006-05-25):
Added support for >1024 (FD_SETSIZE) file descriptors.
Increased limit for number of open files.
Decreased startup time by moving hostname resolution to connection attempt.
Added support to retry connection attempt if hostname resolution fails.
Replaced '--with-conman-conf' configure opt with use of '--sysconfdir'.
Enabled tcp-wrappers support by default if possible.
Fixed potential NULL dereference and resource leaks.
Rewrote init script.
conman-0.1.8.8
(2003-10-07):
Changed behavior of timestamp logopt.
conman-0.1.8.7 (2003-10-01):
Added timestamp logopt to enable timestamping each line of console log.
Changed sanitize logopt to ignore NULs on newline transition.
conman-0.1.8.6 (2003-07-24):
Added fallback for determining daemon's pid via use of pidfile.
Added '-q' cmdline opt to daemon to query daemon's pid.
Decreased startup time.
Rewrote init script.
conman-0.1.8.5 (2003-07-13):
Added support for '%' conversion specifiers.
Deprecated former '&' specifier.
conman-0.1.8.4 (2003-04-03):
Fixed init script to properly name RedHat's subsys file lock.
conman-0.1.8.3 (2002-09-04):
Increased init script ulimit to allow >1024 file descriptors.
conman-0.1.8.2 (2002-08-13):
Added client escape character for sending raw DEL char via '&D'.
conman-0.1.8.1 (2002-07-15):
Added telnet connection fix for ECHO and SUPPRESS GO AHEAD requests.
conman-0.1.8
(2002-05-20):
Added GLOBAL LOG config directive.
Added SERVER LOGFILE & SERVER SYSLOG config directives.
Added '-L' cmdline opt for software license.
Fixed bug where relative-path'd pidfile was not removed at exit.
Fixed bug where relative-path'd logs were not re-opened on sighup.
Fixed bug where empty strings were not detected during config parsing.
Fixed bug where pidfile write was still attempted if its open had failed.
Updated manpages.
$Date: 2007-05-24 22:52:57 +0200 (Thu, 24 May 2007) $
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