From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 21 11:12:40 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 CD44514FA1; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:12:35 -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 LAA15099; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:12:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:12:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Doug , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav , 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: <13106.929978685@axl.noc.iafrica.com> 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 Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:02:14 MST, Doug wrote: > > > The service-name entry is the name of a valid service in the file > > /etc/services. For ``internal'' services (discussed below), the > > service name must be the official name of the service (that is, the first > > entry in /etc/services). > > Read the services(5) manpage. There's nothing wrong with using a > service's alias. Can you point out exactly what part of the man page that you are referring to that contradicts what the inetd man page says? Have you checked the actual code for inetd to verify that it will work with services aliases? In my experience, and in the experience of the PR poster it *is* necessary to use the canonical name of the service, however if you can check the code, test it thoroughly and determine that inetd works perfectly well with aliases, then feel free to change the man page for inetd. 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