On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:31:19PM -0700, Robert Ransom wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:37:28 +1000 > Ramana Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Josh! > > Does anyone know whether ircd is "supposed" to be set up properly on Linux? > > I can tell you that it doesn't get done on Arch, at least. > > On an Arch system: > > $ getent services ircd > $ getent services irc > irc 194/tcp > > Apparently 6667 is not an IANA-blessed port for IRC; thus, it is not in > the /etc/services file Arch uses. > > > Robert Ransom
fyi, this is also true for osx, ircd is not defined so one must define the port number yourself. jimmy. -- Jimmy Tang Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/
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