getservbyname() call
James H. Coombs
jhc at iris.brown.edu
Mon Dec 25 12:08:36 AEST 1989
In article <30183 at shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> jsin at island.seas.ucla.edu (John Sin)
writes:
> I also found that if I delete a line from /etc/services - say, smtp -
> getservbyname() still can find smtp.
Are you running yellow pages? If so, you need to update /etc/services on
the yellow pages server. Try /bin/ypwhich.
--Jim
Dr. James H. Coombs
Senior Software Engineer, Research
Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship
Box 1952, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
More information about the Comp.unix.aux
mailing list