At 4:11 PM -0800 11/5/98, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
>I'm not sure what all uses /etc/services (other than inetd, obviously :-)
>, but have the gut instinct that changing "well-defined" values to
>non-standard ones can cause a problem. Or more accuratly, it might  cause
>one a while in the future.

I can't confirm this right now, but I know of at least one other program
that uses /etc/services... the telnet program itself.  I once changed the
telnetd port on a Linux box, and could no longer telnet out from that
machine without specifying port 23.  I'd be surprised if BSD* telnet is
much different in this regard.


Steve

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