Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:23:11 +0100 Message-ID: <7379-Thu14Jun2001122311+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: /etc/services In-Reply-To: <20010418101327.L15962@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <20010417204828 DOT B4075511 AT MELON> <20010418101327 DOT L15962 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> (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. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple