SUMMARY: Random Missing Services

From: Mark Holm (analogy!markh@uunet.UU.NET)
Date: Wed Oct 14 1992 - 10:27:26 CDT


I wrote yesterday that I washaving a problem with random missing services
at boot time. the answer was summarized best by Ian MacPhedran
(macphed@dvinci.usask.ca) who wrote:

> Check to make sure that there are no blank lines in your /etc/services
> file.
>
> This is the most common cause of this problem
>
> Ian.

I also apologize, as I now remember seeing this awhile back, it just didn't
register. But judging from the number of "me too's", I am not the only one.

Please add this to the FAQ file.

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