From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 1 13:36: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from oxmail.ox.ac.uk (oxmail1.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A9A237B417 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:36:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp212.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.164.212] helo=piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk) by oxmail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #3) id 16AHnY-0007IV-01; Sat, 01 Dec 2001 21:35:49 +0000 Reply-To: cperciva@sfu.ca Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20011201212428.0351cfa0@popserver.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@popserver.sfu.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 21:35:47 +0000 To: "Jamie Hermans" , From: Colin Percival Subject: Re: Request for addition to /etc/services In-Reply-To: <000001c17aad$84c3cd40$6420a8c0@otidan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 14:17 01/12/2001 -0700, Jamie Hermans wrote: >How does a person go about getting such an entry added to /etc/services? > >upsd 3305/tcp # upsd (ports/sysutils/nut - Network UPS Tools) Well, I'd imagine that the first step would be to make sure that IANA hasn't assigned that port to someone else: bash-2.05$ fetch -qo - http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers | grep 3305 odette-ftp 3305/tcp ODETTE-FTP odette-ftp 3305/udp ODETTE-FTP Once you've picked an unused port, you should register your choice with IANA (http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/usr-port-number.pl) to make sure that nobody else decides to use it. As other people have pointed out, the final step would be to send-pr a patch to include the appropriate new lines. Colin Percival To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message