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Revision: 1.18
Committed: Tue Jan 6 15:49:02 2004 UTC (20 years, 10 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.17: +2 -0 lines
Log Message:
Add new drop privileges function to NEWS.

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# Content
1 libstatgrab 0.7.1 (06 January 2004)
2
3 * Support for Linux 2.6.
4 * Support for Cygwin.
5 * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
6 * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
7 * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
8 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
9 (after using the init function)
10
11 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
12
13 * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
14 * FreeBSD code optimised.
15 * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
16 * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
17 * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
18 * Minor bug fixes.
19 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
20 Linux 2.4 on amd64.
21
22 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
23
24 * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
25 * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
26 * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
27 * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
28 * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
29 * Minor packaging changes.
30
31 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
32
33 * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
34 the current system statistics.
35 * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
36 * Documentation is now available in manpages.
37 * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
38 * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
39
40 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
41
42 * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
43 * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
44 This results in it getting data for all the disks.
45 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
46 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
47 * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
48 been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
49
50 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
51
52 * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
53 * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
54 * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
55
56 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
57
58 * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
59
60 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
61
62 * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
63
64 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
65
66 * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
67 transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
68 connected.
69
70 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
71
72 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
73
74 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
75
76 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
77 * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
78
79 libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
80
81 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
82
83 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
84
85 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
86