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Hi, |
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the Gentoo /etc/services file is way smaller, than the one from SuSE |
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and the one from IANA: |
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prometheus etc # wc -l services.* | head -n 3 |
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362 services.Gentoo |
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8103 services.IANA |
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5113 services.SuSE |
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prometheus etc # du -h services.* |
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15K services.Gentoo |
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330K services.IANA |
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207K services.SuSE |
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prometheus etc # |
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Where does the Gentoo file come from? Is it self made, is it taken |
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from some BSD or maybe Debian? |
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I believe it's a good idea to use such a large /etc/services as the |
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one from IANA, as it acts as kinda port encyclopedia, at least for |
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me, sometimes :) |
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Something I've also noticed is that there are services names which |
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differ, like: |
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Gentoo: pop-3 |
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IANA: pop3 |
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SuSE: pop3 |
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Why the heck?! This renders some configuration files unusable for |
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interchaning in between SuSE and Gentoo machines without manual |
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interference :-(( Also the IANA AFAIK is the authoritative institution |
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for assigning service names to ports. |
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I've put up all three files at: |
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http://wolfram.schlich.org/tmp/gentoo/services.Gentoo |
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http://wolfram.schlich.org/tmp/gentoo/services.IANA |
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http://wolfram.schlich.org/tmp/gentoo/services.SuSE |
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Why not use the /etc/services from IANA? I'm already doing that... :) |
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