On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:17:28AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > Of course there is. It's called "register your port with the maintainer of > > the /etc/services file". > > ...who is Anthony Towns (ajt@debian.org) the maintainer of netbase. But > this is really only for "well-known ports" and I don't think either webmin > or zabbix count. Why can't we have packages register ports in /etc/services like they add new users to /etc/passwd? The problem is of course that the UIDs in /etc/passwd don't have to be fix for a given package, but TCP ports have to. But then, you can add more than one name per port. It just looks much better if "netstat -a" shows names instead of numbers. If there's more than one package for a port, the user could decide which one he prefers more. (cf. /etc/alternatives/*) Christoph -- Christoph Berg <cb@cs.uni-sb.de>, 0681/9657944 http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/~cb/ Universität des Saarlandes, Compiler Design Lab
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