Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 03:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf Message-ID: <199907011030.DAA55203@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/11796; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net>, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf Date: 01 Jul 1999 12:26:08 +0200 Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> writes: > On 01 Jul 1999 10:11:24 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Haven't tested it, but the principle is good and the code looks nice. > > I have a suggestion for improvement, though: if no match is found, > > look for a service name after the 'internal' keyword, and look it up > > in the table of builtin services (*not* /etc/services). e.g.: > Um. I could do that. But since the inetd.conf format described in > inetd(8) doesn't suggest that there should be anything after the word > internal (other than, possibly, another word ``internal''), I can't see > how this helps us any. Exactly. It's an *extension*. And if you can patch the code, you can also patch the man page :) It does help us, in that it allows binding internal services to non-default ports without having to fiddle with /etc/services. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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