getservbyname() call

a.e.mossberg aem at mthvax.cs.miami.edu
Sat Dec 23 06:18:21 AEST 1989


In article <30183 at shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> jsin at island.seas.ucla.edu (John Sin) writes:
>I have just finished porting "timed" to A/UX, and I've ran into a small
>problem.  First time I ran it, I got a message "timed/udp service not
>available" because getservbyname( "timed", "udp") returns NULL.  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.  


Did you remember to add it to /etc/servers ?  You'll need to add a 
line which defines where the daemon lives so that inetd can find it
when a request comes in. 



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