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.


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Jimmy Tang
Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing,
Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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