Re: base bugs

["Michael E. Deisher" <deisher@enws428.EAS.ASU.EDU>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 1995 10:19:42 -0400, Ian Murdock <imurdock@gnu.ai.mit.edu> said:

> [ I'm not reporting this via debian-bugs because these should be
> fixed before the release. ]
> * I installed most of the system via dselect.  The only problem I
> noticed is that configuration of smail (and, thus, everything that
> depends on it) failed.  It said hostname --fqdn failed or something.
> (Unfortunately, I didn't write down the exact error message.)  I'm
> not certain why it failed.

This is because /etc/inetd.conf does not exist!

Also, /etc/services does not exist!

Please include these files in the base system.  Otherwise, lots of
network-related things are broken.

Thanks.

--Mike