From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jun 21 11:30: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC9C14C1F for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id LAA93732; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199906211830.LAA93732@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf] Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/11796; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn To: Doug 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] Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:19:48 +0200 On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:12:26 MST, Doug wrote: > 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? Certainly. From services(5): The services file contains information regarding the known services available in the DARPA Internet. For each service a single line should be present with the following information: official service name port number protocol name aliases We wouldn't be straying too far from reality if we interpretated the word "alias" as "another name for". We now look at /etc/services and see: auth 113/tcp ident tap #Authentication Service auth 113/udp ident tap #Authentication Service We read from this that each of "ident" and "tap" is "another name for" "auth". We now look et /etc/inetd.conf, where we find: #ident stream tcp wait kmem:kmem /usr/local/sbin/identd identd -w -t120 I uncommented this line a few years ago and haven't had a problem with my ident service that I could think of. > 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. Since the manpage supports my experience thus far, I really can't see how you'd put the burden of proof on me. :-) Let's see a "How-To-Repeat" of somewhat more substance than "Try running identd without having noticed the glitch". Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message