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



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