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From: louis@asterix.drev.dnd.ca (Louis Demers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: getservbyname() call
Message-ID: <1989Dec22.193643.19037@asterix.drev.dnd.ca>
Date: 22 Dec 89 19:36:43 GMT
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jsin@island.seas.ucla.edu (John Sin) writes:
>... So I added a line in /etc/services thus:
>	timed     525/udp     timeserver
>However, I found that it still does not recognize this service.  I've
>already rebooted (soft boot) the machine, but that didn't make any
>difference.  
...
>I also found that if I delete a line from /etc/services - say, smtp -
>getservbyname() still can find smtp.

Are you running  the Yellow Pages ?  Here we are and we once
encoutered the same problem on Sun's.  "/etc/services" is one of the files
"shared" by the Yellow Pages system.  The file /etc/services on
the master server is the one that need to be changed.

	Merry Xmas,

						Louis
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