Re: [dev] [sic] port argument necessary?

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:31:19PM -0700, Robert Ransom wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:37:28 +1000
> Ramana Kumar <ramana.kumar_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Josh!
> > Does anyone know whether ircd is "supposed" to be set up properly on Linux?
> > I can tell you that it doesn't get done on Arch, at least.
>
> On an Arch system:
>
> $ getent services ircd
> $ getent services irc
> irc 194/tcp
>
> Apparently 6667 is not an IANA-blessed port for IRC; thus, it is not in
> the /etc/services file Arch uses.
>
>
> Robert Ransom

fyi, this is also true for osx, ircd is not defined so one must define
the port number yourself.

jimmy.

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