From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 21 12:11: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703B314F2A; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:10:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15524; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:10:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, alex@wnm.net Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Doug writes: > > You are really really missing my point here, so I will state it > > again. If you have carefully examined the code for *every* case of *every* > > internal service, and you have tested it thoroughly, and you are 100% sure > > that the man page is in error, change the man page. > > The confusion arises from the fact that inetd and /etc/services > disagree on what the canonical name for the ident service is. Inetd > has these canonical names hardcoded in an array of structs, so > changing the canonical name in /etc/services does not affect inetd's > belief of what the canonical name is. Ok, so what we're looking at is actually an entirely different error. :) In fact, the man page is correct, however the inetd code currently has an outdated version of the canonical name. Thus, at minimum the man page should be udpated to reflect this reality. A better solution would be to remove the hard coded values in the code, and fix the config file. It adds unneeded steepness to the learning curve to have the man page and the example configuration file out of synch. The average new user would have no reason to check the code to get an answer to this. Thanks, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message