Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:17:25 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, 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] Message-ID: <49782.930039445@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:10:47 MST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906211200090.15474-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com>
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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:10:47 MST, Doug wrote: > 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 has an outdated version of the canonical name.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 took me a bit of playing to find the problem, since the PR doesn't say " if I use service name ``auth'' instead of ``inetd'', I get the following error message from inetd: internal service auth unknown " That's the kind of thing I was looking for when I asked you (twice) to send a useful "How-To-Repeat". It doesn't help that people who've run into the problem understand the vague description provided, because I haven't run into it. Now that I understand the problem, I'd like to put forward this proposal: The manual pages for services(5), inetd(8) and inetd.conf(5) are adequate if inetd accepts both canonical service names _and_ aliases. Therefore a healthy, backward-compatible change that is unlikely to accept existing users is to teach inetd to understand service name aliases. I'm not yet saying that this is possible, but I am saying that I'll look into it if it'd make you happy. Whatever your preference is, I'd suggest dropping freebsd-hackers from further discussion. Now that we all understand each other, it's probably more appropriate that the conversation continue on PR feedback only. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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