On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:

> ?? Are you sure? The 1.3.2 man page says that inetd looks in /etc/services
> to know where to hook up telnetd. telnetd should just take the sockets its
> given, and seems to. I've had multiple telnetd's running on a machine
> (some with kerberos, some w/o).

>From the -current man page as of August 8, 1998:

	FILES
	     /etc/services
	     /etc/inittab (UNICOS systems only)
	     /etc/iptos (if supported)

But, as I said, I didn't read the source.  :)  And your explanation
makes much more sense.  So, why _does_ telnetd use /etc/services ???


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