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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:43:43 -0400
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The services file you found in C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc is indeed the file 
you would want to edit--it affects both Cygwin and vanilla Windows applications.

My personal preference is to symlink /etc/services to the Windows one...
(Hmm... who's for making this part of the install process?)

To do that: ln -s /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/drivers/etc/services /etc/services
(Note that this works on Win NT/2K/XP only.  On ME???/95/98 the file is 
C:\WINDOWS\services... I think.  It might be in the system directory.)

Changing standard port numbers is something that I have not tried.  If you 
change the port assignment for FTP, you may suddenly find that your better 
written Windows apps ("better written" implies "well abstracted" implies "few 
hard-coded numbers") will no longer be able to find FTP servers without an 
explicit port specification.  I leave it to the reader to find out if IE falls 
into that category.

I add entries to my services file at the drop of a hat, though.

I hope this helps.

Jason Alonso

Quoting Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>:

> 
> --- Daniel Adams <danpadams AT infomagic DOT net> wrote:
> > Will editing this file alter the port numbers for telnet or FTP used by
> > cygwin telnet and ftp clients, also some other windows clients? The file
> > that I found that could be edited was at C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc.
> > I am
> > on a windows NT system. I figured that the method would involve this
> > file
> > since my Dad's redhat machine uses the same thing, but I also figured
> > there
> > would a file in my cygwin directory not the WINNT directory. Do you have
> > any
> > knowledge about these questions?
> 
> Why not experiment and see what happens?  I mean its not like it will take
> your machine down.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
> 
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