Re: getservbyname not working on unstable

[Todd Tyree <todd.tyree@paxtongreen.nhs.uk>]

Thanks Laurent!

I'd just set up openldap and, following Torsten Landschoff's 'Using LDAP 
for name resolution' had loaded /dev/null when using migrationtools.  I 
hadn't, however, used his suggseted nsswitch.conf but instead had copied 
the openldap example.

Best,
Todd

Laurent CARON wrote:
> Todd Tyree wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Hope this is the right list.  Please let me know if it isn't and I'll 
> > re-post to the correct one.
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this or has a fix.  I've got 
> > an unstable box with a brand-new installation (done on the 22nd of 
> > Feb) where getservbyname just will not work.  I discovered it because 
> > neither exim4 nor courier-mta would bind to port 25 on start (both 
> > lookup 'smtp'--and both were failing.  Installed courier-mta because I 
> > thought it was a bug in the latest exim4).  Courier binds if you 
> > change 'smtp' to 25 in /etc/courier/estmpd.  Netstat only returns 
> > ports--no service names and perl -e "print getservbyname('www', 
> > 'tcp')';" reuturns blank.
> >
> > Kernel is 2.6.8-2-686, but was getting the same thing under 
> > 2.6.6-1-i386.   /etc/services belongs to root and is world-readable.
> >
> > Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Best,
> > Todd
> cat /etc/nsswitch.conf