DITTO on Mike's note!! Leave it alone. Bad things will happen.<br>bad things...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/20 Michael H. Warfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com">mhw@wittsend.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 11:48 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:<br>
> My services file has thousands of entries. I assume those<br>
> without # at the beginning are enabled.<br>
<br>
</div> No. Not correct. /etc/services is merely a lookup file mapping<br>
service names to well known port numbers and protocols. It, in and of<br>
itself, doesn't enable anything. Sort of like what the /etc/hosts file<br>
does for looking up systems.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> What I was thinking was to make a copy of it and edit out almost everything<br>
> or<br>
> possibly better yet,.... create a new minimized one rather than trying to<br>
> digest<br>
> the myriad entries .<br>
<br>
> What minimum should remain to permit secure web browsing and email ?<br>
<br>
</div> Highly recommended that you do not go down this road or every service<br>
that uses getservicebyname() may potentially be broken. Do not do this.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> What services am I overlooking with this idea that would possibly be a<br>
> mistake ?<br>
<br>
</div> The file doesn't do what you think it does therefore you don't<br>
understand the function of the file thus making tampering with it a<br>
mistake.<br>
<br>
> Appreciatively,<br>
<br>
> Courtney<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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