Subject: Re: simultaneous windows and cygwin telnet service
From: Jon LaBadie <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Jon LaBadie <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:23:39 -0400

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 04:11:21PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:03:07AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:06:48AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > 
> > > Correct.  It's just the services file which is located elsewhere
> > > on WIndows systems.  The file is
> > > 
> > > ${WINDIR}/SERVICES                              on 9x/Me and
> > > ${SYSTEMROOT}/system32/drivers/etc/services     on NT/2K/XP
> > 
> > Are you saying the cygwin inetd uses the windows services file
> > (and inetd.conf?) rather than the ones in /etc?
> 
> Sure.  Cygwin doesn't maintain it's own services file but uses
> the same one used by Winsock.  If you created your own /etc/services
> (instead of just a symlink), bad luck!

I presume then that cygwin never installs a fresh services/inetd.conf
file as that might overwrite some things in the windows files; things
of which cygwin is unaware.

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