Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:12:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Doug <Studded@gorean.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, alex@wnm.net Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906211108320.15079-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <13106.929978685@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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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
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