Author: Robert Bushman Date: Subject: Services Not Resolving?
When I do netstat -l, my service ports don't
resolve to names. The currently most troubling
outcome is that exim can't find port 25.
2002-10-15 18:08:01 181R0O-0001Kk-00 TCP service "smtp" not found
/etc/services is in place and correct (I
overwrote it from a working machine to be sure).
libc6-dev, net-tools, bind9, inetd are all
installed and seem to be working fine except
for the inability to getservbyname or
getservbyport.
/usr/include/netdb.h has _PATH_SERVICES pointed
to /etc/services, as it should.
My recent activity that most likely caused this
is the repeated install and removal of sourceforge
and much of its dependancy tree (kept getting
ldap and libapache-mod-ssl settings wrong):
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"Any data that's public, and that Google can see, is hardly worth
storing and organizing. We simply search for what we need, when we
need it: just-in-time information management." - Jon Udell
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