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Re: no www in /etc/services?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Wed Oct 23 09:39:38 1996
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
To: bandregg@idir.net
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:36:31 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <slrn56qs1l.1gu.bandregg@hueco.idir.net> from "Bryan C. Andregg" at Oct 22, 96 08:09:09 pm
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> This is not necessarily a bug (to my knowledge). Instead, it simply means that
> inetd is not going to try an answer the request to port 80. This leaves httpd to
> do that on its own (assuming you are running in standalone mode). If you are
> running httpd in inetd mode then you will need to declare this.
This might be true in this particular case (because httpd might not
do a getservbyname()), but this theory is certainly not true in general.
The only relation of the /etc/services file with inetd is that all inetd
services have to be in /etc/services, but this statement can't be
"reversed".
Some standalone daemons _do_ lookup their own service in /etc/services
and will generate an error when it's not there (or take a compiled-in
default, which usually is the right number ;-)). At least the Gopher
and/or WAIS server has this behaviour, as far as I can remember, and
I'm sure there are more (syslogd?).
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