[comp.unix.wizards] announcing services

andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) (04/16/89)

i am trying to announce a service on a sun 3 running sunos 4.0.
i did what i did on the mips, namely add the line
fmclient	729/tcp
to /etc/services, and the line
fmclient	stream	tcp	nowait	andrew	/usr/v9/lib/filemotel/doclient	doclient
to /etc/inetd.conf, and then kill -1 pid(inetd).
on the mips this worked. according to the documentation,
i think it should work on the sun. but it doesn't.
dmesg yields the diagnostic:
Apr 15 18:23:01 shamash inetd[173]: fmclient/tcp: unknown service

this error persists across a reboot. I have no idea why it doesn't
work. does anyone out there have a guess?
and if not a guess, how can i find out more (debugging)?

andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) (04/18/89)

thanks to all those who replied; i was tricked by the
yellow pages server.

ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould) (04/18/89)

>i am trying to announce a service on a sun 3 running sunos 4.0.
>i did what i did on the mips, namely add the line
>fmclient	729/tcp
>to /etc/services, and the line
>fmclient	stream	tcp	nowait	andrew	/usr/v9/lib/filemotel/doclient	doclient
>to /etc/inetd.conf, and then kill -1 pid(inetd).
>on the mips this worked. according to the documentation,
>i think it should work on the sun. but it doesn't.
>dmesg yields the diagnostic:
>Apr 15 18:23:01 shamash inetd[173]: fmclient/tcp: unknown service

>this error persists across a reboot. I have no idea why it doesn't
>work. does anyone out there have a guess?
>and if not a guess, how can i find out more (debugging)?

I imagine it's because the Sun is using Yellow Pages, and the YP map
serving /etc/servoces hasn't been updated.  Try

	cd /etc/yp  (or maybe cd /usr/etc/yp)
	make

and then

	kill -1 pid(inetd)

again.  If that doesn't do it, you have a real problem.

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