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From: ellis@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Brian Ellis)
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Subject: beware blank lines in /etc/inetd.conf
Keywords: inetd
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I just got tripped up by a little funny with /etc/inetd.conf, I had a blank
line on the end of the file (one carriage return too many). With inetd.conf
in this state, inetd dies very quickly. Further experimentation reveals that
a blank line anywhere in the file causes this behaviour.

I've tested this under Ultrix 3.1D (Rev. 54) and ULTRIX V4.0 (Rev. 179),
both running on a DECSystem 5400. Both flavours exhibit the described
behaviour. I've also tested this out on 4.3 BSD and SunOS 4.1, both of
which are tolerant of blank lines.

Is this a known problem?

Brian.


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