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- From: root@slave.uwe.ac.uk (Operator (Phil/Dylan))
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: TCP Problems: Unknown service Solved !!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.001313.15719@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 00:13:13 GMT
- References: <LPY85PQ@math.fu-berlin.de> <3S28X5M@math.fu-berlin.de>
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- In article <3S28X5M@math.fu-berlin.de>, gerd@zaphod.physik.fu-berlin.de (Gerd
- Buntkowsky) writes:
- |> Hello and thanks to everybody who helped me,
- |> I finally got the tcpip running
- |> the problem with the unknown service is, that telnet looks for
- |> the file /usr/etc/inet/services, while my path was /etc/services.
- |> In this regard my question, should I link /usr/etc/inet to /etc ?
-
- yes erm well,... the unfortunate thing is that the networking code
- evolves too quickly at times and that was one of them,...
- the correct standard place for services is in /etc BUT as all the
- tcpip code is being worked on, a temp(?) dir was used instead
- /usr/etc/inet so services was kept seperate from the /etc dir as
- it was a piece of the tcpip data files. I'd be slightly hesitant
- about linking an entire dir to another
- (mv /usr/etc/inet/* /etc;rmdir /usr/etc/inet;ln -s /etc /usr/etc/inet)
- (think thats right) so I tend only to link single files, (the other
- candidate being /usr/etc/inet/hosts -> /etc/hosts
-
- always when in doubt use 'strings <file> | more' and look for hard
- coded filenames
-
- Phil
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