sockets on DECstation 3100
Fletcher Kittredge
fkittred at bbn.com
Sat Jan 12 11:16:43 AEST 1991
In article <14236 at uswat.UUCP> dmyers at uswat.uswest.com (Dave Myers) writes:
>examples. I added an entry into the /etc/services file. I then tried to
>do a getservbyname call to retrieve it, but that failed. I tried the same
>call on some other entries, and some, like ftp, succeeded, while others,
>like finger, failed. I would appreciate any help pointing me in the right
>direction on this problem, or provide me with a simple working server/client
>program pair.
Are you running YP or BIND/Hesiod? If so, then /etc/services may be a red
herring and you are getting whatever distributed database is served up. The
file you want to check is /etc/svc.conf.
>
>thanks,
Your welcome, (;-)
>Dave Myers
>dmyers at uswest.com
Fletcher Kittredge
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617-873-3465 / fkittred at bbn.com / fkittred at das.harvard.edu
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