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  From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  To  : Martin Stacey <martin@safcol.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 12:57:54 +0930

Re: Services file

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:45:38PM +0930, Martin Stacey wrote:

 > If I add a entry into the file /etc/services do I need to reboot my server
 > in order to make the service (port) active?

No;  you rarely need to reboot your computer to do anything at all 
(amazing how much the Windows influence makes people think there's 
something necessary or required about reboots, isn't it? :-)

What do you mean by, "Active", though?  If you expect to have a 
server listening on that port, you'll need to edit inetd.conf (or 
whatever equivalent you're using) to arrange for that server to start,
then issue a "killall -HUP inetd" command.

   - mark

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