Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-22 Thread Anonymous
Alex Charalabidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 21 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > The PR is wrong. Sheldon is right. It *does* work the way it ships. If > > he experienced problems, I bet the real bug was that he edited > > inetd.conf, HUPed inetd, and hit the "HUP clobbers the servic

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Alex Charalabidis writes: > On 21 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > The PR is wrong. Sheldon is right. It *does* work the way it ships. If > > he experienced problems, I bet the real bug was that he edited > > inetd.conf, HUPed inetd, and hit the "HUP clobbers the service table" > > bug. >

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-22 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:10:47 MST, Doug wrote: > In fact, the man page is correct, however the inetd code currently > has an outdated version of the canonical name. Thus, at minimum the > man page should be udpated to reflect this reality. A better solution > would be to remove the hard coded va

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-22 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:10:47 MST, Doug wrote: > In fact, the man page is correct, however the inetd code currently > has an outdated version of the canonical name. Thus, at minimum the > man page should be udpated to reflect this reality. A better solution > would be to remove the hard coded val

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On 21 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "It doesn't work with the conf file that came with the system, but > > it does work if I change the conf file to match the documentation" is > > pretty good content in my book. Obviously he doesn't include infor

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Alex Charalabidis
On 21 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Doug writes: > > "It doesn't work with the conf file that came with the system, but > > it does work if I change the conf file to match the documentation" is > > pretty good content in my book. Obviously he doesn't include information > > on how to

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "It doesn't work with the conf file that came with the system, but > it does work if I change the conf file to match the documentation" is > pretty good content in my book. Obviously he doesn't include information > on how to repeat the problem in a verifia

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Doug writes: > "It doesn't work with the conf file that came with the system, but > it does work if I change the conf file to match the documentation" is > pretty good content in my book. Obviously he doesn't include information > on how to repeat the problem in a verifiable way, but that do

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:42:46 MST, Doug wrote: > > > [...] there is an outstanding PR that shows it > > doesn't work for everybody, and there is absolutely no justification for > > leaving an example in the conf file that conflicts with the man pa

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
By the way, I'd recommend all -CURRENT users, after making world, make a new copy of pidentd. The code to grovel through the kernel to find socket info is MUCH less sickening now, so identd is less of a performance hit and less likely to fail due to race conditions. Brian Fundakowski Feldman

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:42:46 MST, Doug wrote: > > > [...] there is an outstanding PR that shows it > > doesn't work for everybody, and there is absolutely no justification for > > leaving an example in the conf file that conflicts with the man pag

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Brian F. Feldman
By the way, I'd recommend all -CURRENT users, after making world, make a new copy of pidentd. The code to grovel through the kernel to find socket info is MUCH less sickening now, so identd is less of a performance hit and less likely to fail due to race conditions. Brian Fundakowski Feldman

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On 21 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You are really really missing my point here, so I will state it > > again. If you have carefully examined the code for *every* case of *every* > > internal service, and you have tested it thoroughly, and you are

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
On 21 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Doug writes: > > You are really really missing my point here, so I will state it > > again. If you have carefully examined the code for *every* case of *every* > > internal service, and you have tested it thoroughly, and you are 100% sure > > that

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:42:46 MST, Doug wrote: > [...] there is an outstanding PR that shows it > doesn't work for everybody, and there is absolutely no justification for > leaving an example in the conf file that conflicts with the man page. Doug, I'm annoyed that you ignored the most importan

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:42:46 MST, Doug wrote: > [...] there is an outstanding PR that shows it > doesn't work for everybody, and there is absolutely no justification for > leaving an example in the conf file that conflicts with the man page. Doug, I'm annoyed that you ignored the most important

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are really really missing my point here, so I will state it > again. If you have carefully examined the code for *every* case of *every* > internal service, and you have tested it thoroughly, and you are 100% sure > that the man page is in error, change

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Doug writes: > You are really really missing my point here, so I will state it > again. If you have carefully examined the code for *every* case of *every* > internal service, and you have tested it thoroughly, and you are 100% sure > that the man page is in error, change the man page. The

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:12:26 MST, Doug wrote: > > > Can you point out exactly what part of the man page that you are > > referring to that contradicts what the inetd man page says? Have you > > checked the actual code for inetd to verify that it wi

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:12:26 MST, Doug wrote: > > > Can you point out exactly what part of the man page that you are > > referring to that contradicts what the inetd man page says? Have you > > checked the actual code for inetd to verify that it wil

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my experience, and in the experience of the PR poster it *is* > necessary to use the canonical name of the service, however if you can > check the code, test it thoroughly and determine that inetd works > perfectly well with aliases, then feel free to ch

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Doug writes: > In my experience, and in the experience of the PR poster it *is* > necessary to use the canonical name of the service, however if you can > check the code, test it thoroughly and determine that inetd works > perfectly well with aliases, then feel free to change the man page fo

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:12:26 MST, Doug wrote: > Can you point out exactly what part of the man page that you are > referring to that contradicts what the inetd man page says? Have you > checked the actual code for inetd to verify that it will work with > services aliases? Certainly. Fro

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:12:26 MST, Doug wrote: > Can you point out exactly what part of the man page that you are > referring to that contradicts what the inetd man page says? Have you > checked the actual code for inetd to verify that it will work with > services aliases? Certainly. From

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:02:14 MST, Doug wrote: > > > The service-name entry is the name of a valid service in the file > > /etc/services. For ``internal'' services (discussed below), the > > service name must be the official name of the service (

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:02:14 MST, Doug wrote: > > > The service-name entry is the name of a valid service in the file > > /etc/services. For ``internal'' services (discussed below), the > > service name must be the official name of the service (t

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
A copy of my reply has been bounced to freebsd-gnats-submit, since the address in the forwarded headers was misspelled. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:02:14 MST, Doug wrote: > The service-name entry is the name of a valid service in the file > /etc/services. For ``internal'' services (discussed below), the > service name must be the official name of the service (that is, the first > entry in /etc/services). Read the s

[Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
Since y'all are discussing inetd.conf, here is something else to consider. Doug Original Message Subject: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:55:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Studded To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav CC: freebsd-b...@freebsd.org