Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:16:26 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Why services.db? Message-ID: <244e6157-2bc8-9587-4b4f-e67b8f5af3c8@tundraware.com>
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Back in the olden daze, services where defined in /etc/services. I came upon a rather large /var/db/services.db that seems somehow obliquely related to this but I am unclear on a few things: - Why does this file exist? What problem is it solving? - Can it be safely removed? - Does it need periodic regeneration, and if so, how? (There is some hint there with services_mkdb, but I - again - am unclear on the overall concept.) TIA...
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