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Note that rootd and proofd are already in the /etc/services of upcoming 
Apple Tiger. There is no reason for RH not to deliver a complete 
/etc/service, what else is the use to register with IANA.

-- Fons


Peter Elmer via RT wrote:
>   Hi Booker,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:47:10AM -0800, Booker Bense via RT wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Peter Elmer via RT wrote:
>>_ There is a standard registry for this kind of thing. Rootd is
>>already registered. Vendors are supposed to include this in their
>>OS ( or at least the ones below 1024 ).
>>
>>http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
>>
>>_ In general vendors leave it up to sites to configure their
>>application service ports. It might be a lot simpler just to
>>hide the error message from the user.
> 
> 
>   Yes, Fons registered 1094 for rootd, so that is fine. What we really
> need instead is to make sure that it gets into the actual /etc/services
> file distributed by Redhat (i.e. that they distribute an /etc/services
> file coherent with the IANA list). For this, my question was whether SCS
> could ask the Redhat people to add it. Presumably they either manage
> themselves the /etc/services file they distribute or have contact with the 
> person who does. Since access to (x)rootd is now standard for BaBar (and
> relatively widespread in HEP) and the redhat /etc/services does seem to
> try to be relatively complete instead of just listing true core unix 
> services, it seems worthwhile to pursue this with Redhat. 
> 
>   [Here we go on the RT duplicate-all-mails game...]
> 
>                                  thanks,
>                                    Pete
> 
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