That's not the issue. According to the original mail, he wrote "tcpserver
<options> 25 smtp"
> without to write in command this '0' writting only nummber of port
> and 'smtp'
That 25 is supposed to be the IP address where tcpserver is supposed to
bind itself to. I _know_ you can write whatever you want in the port
option, as long as it matches something in /etc/services, or is an integer.
But "host" is supposed to be a host, or 0 (for "all interfaces"). 25
shouldn't work.
RC
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 12:27:21PM -0500, Rob Hines Jr. wrote:
> Just go into /etc/services and make a name alias if you feel more comfortable
> with that. tcpserver actually looks up 'smtp' in the services file to find out
> the port number. right now, I am using smtp-ghost in my second tcpserver init,
> and I set up smtp-ghost in the services file to look at my alternate port. In
> any case, tcpserver doesn't care if you put smtp, or 25 in that spot.
>
> Works just fine for me.
>
> Rob
>
> Ricardo Cerqueira wrote:
>
> > >
> > > a propos tcpserver with smtp - on Solaris, where zero '0' before
> > > smtp word has been written the program not works. So we uses it
> > > without to write in command this '0' writting only nummber of port
> > > and 'smtp'
> > >
> >
> > Errr... and it works??? Those args are supposed to be "IP address" and
> > "port". 0 stands for "all interfaces", and "smtp" stands for 25.
> > If you're writing "25 smtp"... It's NOT supposed to be bound to any
> > interface (is there any kind of int in solaris responding as 25?)
> >
> > RC
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