Subject: Re: /etc/services entries (was: CVS commit: src/etc)
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Elad Efrat <e@murder.org>
List: current-users
Date: 05/10/2007 20:59:28
Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On May 10,  8:49am, netbsd@lists.veego.de (Bernd Ernesti) wrote:
> -- Subject: /etc/services entries (was: CVS commit: src/etc)
> 
> | I thought it was the consent that we would NOT add all the services over >1024
> | from this list.
> 
> I don't this is the case. 
> 
> | Now I would get the strange ports names instead of the port number for all
> | connections and wonder what service I now use and my machine.
> | 
> | This is now a 960KB file instead of the 13KB which it was before.
> 
> Bring it up to tech-userlevel. It is easy enough to change.
> 
> christos
> 

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2006/10/08/0004.html

I also recall the consensus as leaving this file small...

-e.