(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)
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