From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 08:53:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA26140 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:53:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack.Colorado.EDU (jack.Colorado.EDU [128.138.149.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA26129 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jack.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id JAA11542; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 09:53:18 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <32076A6E.5441@Colorado.EDU> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 09:53:18 -0600 From: "Mark O'Lear" Organization: University of Colorado X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Addy CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whois control file? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Cliff Addy wrote: > > Right now, whois is only available to members of the wheel group. Others > get a "whois/tcp: unknown service" or something to that effect. > > What file is controlling this? It seems that it's a file that's readable > by wheel but not others. If I add a user to wheel, then whois starts > working for them. > > The man page makes no reference to a control file. Does anyone know what > it is? > > Cliff It's probably /etc/services. It needs to be readable by everyone. -- Mark O'Lear \ e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU University of Colorado \ phone: (303) 492-3798 Telecomm. Svcs. (CB 313) \ fax: (303) 492-5105 Boulder, CO 80309 \