util-linux
Util-linux is a suite of essential utilities for any Linux system. It contains the following programs: addpart, agetty, blockdev, cal, cfdisk, chfn, chkdupexe, chrt, chsh, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ctrlaltdel, cytune, ddate, delpart, display-services, dmesg, elvtune, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, flock, fsck.cramfs, fsck.minix, getopt, halt, hexdump, hwclock, initctl, ionice, ipcrm, ipcs, isosize, kill, last, line, logger, login, look, losetup, mcookie, mesg, mkfs, mkfs.bfs, mkfs.cramfs, mkfs.minix, mkswap, more, mount, namei, need, newgrp, partx, pg, pivot_root, provide, ramsize, raw, rdev, readprofile, reboot, rename, renice, reset, rev, rootflags, script, scriptreplay, setsid, setterm, sfdisk, shutdown, simpleinit, swapoff, swapon, taskset, tailf, tunelp, ul, umount, vidmode, vipw, wall, whereis, and write.
| Tags | Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
Recent releases
- 05 Mar 2006 19:04
Changes: mount defaults to CIFS instead of SMBFS for sources starting with //. There are flock documentation updates. There is a new translation (id) and updated translations (de, it, sl, and uk).
- 17 Nov 2005 14:44
Changes: getopt has been updated to 1.1.4. All *llseek variants have been replaced with lseek. There are miscellaneous build system, code, and documentation cleanups and fixes. The French and Italian translations have been updated.
- 15 Oct 2005 08:30
Changes: This release updates to cramfs-1.1 and removes PAGE_CACHE_SIZE usage for {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs, fixes "umount -n -r", adds miscellaneous build system and code cleanups and fixes, and updates the ca translation.
- 13 Sep 2005 06:00
Changes: fdisk is no longer built on m68k. Miscellaneous build system and documentation fixes were made. The "clear" program was removed.
- 10 Sep 2005 15:48
Changes: Miscellaneous buld system fixes were made. A segfault with ReiserFS partitions was fixed in cfdisk. The -r option of umount is now disallowed for non-root users. The translations were updated for da, fr, it, nl, ru, sl, and tr.
- All comments
Recent commentsis this the right place for a feature request?
i'd like to have an option for 'column' not to ignore empty lines but just print them..
Re: Mailing list
Ohh..
http://math-lists.uio.no/mailman/listinfo/util-linux@math.uio.no
Mailing list
Does anyone know how to subscribe to util-linux@math.uio.dot.no mailing-list ? Is there any web-archive ?
Re: util-linux
> Site is still down. Any body want to
> provide a mirror ?
> i would provide a mirror if i could
> get the package.
The site isn't/wasn't down, some clients (mostly browsers) don't follow symlinks properly.
Try ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/home/aeb/linux-local/utils
Re: util-linux
> Site is still down. Any body want to
> provide a mirror ?
> I would provide a mirror if I could
> get the package.
That's a bit odd, there are dozens of mirrors for
ftp.us.kernel.org, mine is one of them and I know
it's up. ftp.us.kernel.org is a round-robin DNS.
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