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From: jhc@iris.brown.edu (James H. Coombs)
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Subject: Re: getservbyname() call
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Date: 25 Dec 89 01:08:36 GMT
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In article <30183@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> jsin@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