make upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/mailer.conf

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Wed Feb 2 10:19:42 PST 2005


:Another solution could be using default files (/etc/defaults/services) 
:and add overrides/custom entries in /etc/services.
:
:Too bad that I have no idea how we could do this, since -alot- of tcp/ip 
:tools use /etc/services directly. Any way to wrap this?
:
:- Erik

    No tools should be using /etc/services directly.  They should all be
    using e.g. getservbyname() and friends.

    Pesonally speaking I really like the idea of having /etc/services
    and /etc/defaults/services.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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