On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 04:29:26PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > If I am not mistaken, since it is a conffile for netstd, other packages are > forbidden from doing anything with it? I think the proper response is: get > Maintainer: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to include your service in > /etc/services, then your package depends on a specific version of netstd. > > [how did I do? :] > > As for an actual method, probably making a tmp file of what you would like > to add to it, copying the existing one someplace, then catting the two of > them back together to /etc/services.
you can use update-inetd --file /etc/services --add 'name port/tcp # comment' however, be aware that /etc/services can be overwritten when you upgrade netstd. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!

