/etc/services

[Marius Aamodt Eriksen]

"hai huang" <ha...@eecs.umich.edu> writes:

> I am writing a simple socket program that contacts the daytime server of a
> machine and returns the current time of the day. I saw that daytime server
> is specified in /etc/services as one of available services, but when I try
> to contact it, I always get an error of connection refused. Is there some
> other files or administrative stuffs that disallow connection to a
> particular port. Somebody please clarify. Thanks

Did you have a look at /etc/inetd.conf ?

Marius.
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