Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:58:03 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /etc/services Message-ID: <20010614135803.U1144@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010417204828.B4075511@MELON> <20010418101327.L15962@cygbert.vinschen.de> <7379-Thu14Jun2001122311+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <7379-Thu14Jun2001122311+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>; from starksb@ebi.ac.uk on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:23:11PM +0100 On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:23:11PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote: > (Apologies for this "blast from the past", and if my message is > redundant given subsequent threads that I haven't seen yet. I'm still > catching up.) > > On Wednesday 18 Apr 01, Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:15:14PM -0800, Curious Mind wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know what creates the /etc/services file. I think this may be > > > > a source of some troubles im having with inetd because its calling on that > > > > file and it doesnt exist. > > > > ... If you want a link in /etc (I'm doing that at home for > > easier access) start the following script: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > cd /etc > > rm -f services > > _sys="`uname -a`" > > _nt=`expr "$_sys" : "CYGWIN_NT"` > > if [ $_nt -gt 0 ] > > then > > _wservices="${SYSTEMROOT}\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\services" > > else > > _wservices="${WINDIR}\\SERVICES" > > fi > > _services=`cygpath -u "${_wservices}"` > > ln -s ${_services} > > I believe this should be covered in the FAQ. Not Corinna's script per > se, but a description of the situation, where to find it for various > versions of Windows, and advice not to copy it to /etc/services. The important message is, it's pretty useless to create or copy it. There's no application which rely's on the fact that services (or host, protocols,...) is in /etc. As I stated in my above mail, I created a symlink just for convenience. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple