/etc/inetd/hosts ?

[Hanry Zhou]

Hi,

What is the file for? why do I need it?

On Solaris box.

This might be an appropriate forum to ask such question, Sorry.

Also anybody know where I can find Solaris forum similar to this place?

Roger

[Pete Randall]

Roger,

I've never heard of a file called /etc/inetd/hosts. There is a /etc/inetd and there is a /etc/hosts, but that's about it.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Roger,

I've never heard of a file called /etc/inetd/hosts. There is a /etc/inetd (which is not a directory, by the way) and there is a /etc/hosts, but that's about it.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Sorry, first off for posting twice and secondly for not noticing that you meant on Solaris. In that case, disregard my (echoed) comments.


Pete

[Uday_S_Ankolekar · Accepted solution]

I feel it should be /etc/inet/hosts. This file I guess is for configuring hosts, hostname.

You may find some clue in http://docs.sun.com

-USA..

[Patrick Wallek]

If I remember correctly on Solaris, /etc/hosts is a link to /etc/inetd/hosts. So the answer is YES you do need that file.

If you do an 'ls -l /etc/hosts' you will probably see something like

/etc/hosts -> /etc/inetd/hosts

showing that it is a link.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Normaly on solaris /etc/hosts is linked to /etc/inet/hosts.

# ls -la /etc/hosts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 15 Dec 6 17:27 hosts -> /etc/inet/hosts

I'm not sure what you meen buy /etc/inetd

Kind regards,

Robert-Jan.

[Hanry Zhou]

It was a typo. I meant "/etc/inet/hosts".
Anybody knows a good Solaris forum?

Thanks, points will be assigned later.

[Michael Duthie]

www.veryveryveryslow.com :-)

[Patrick Wallek]

For Solaris information and Discussion boards check out: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Roger,

missed the last question,

Solaris Forum ?

http://supportforum.sun.com/

Kind regards.

Robert-Jan.

[KCS_1]

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=home

go to there and get some stuff from user forum.

http://supportforum.sun.com/



have a good day!!

[Hanry Zhou]

As one of replyer indicates the web site
http://supportforum.sun.com/ is extremely extremely slow, and not very active at all.

Any other Sun forum you can suggest? Has to be decent and professional.

Thanks,

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

It has been long time I worked on Solaris...
Do a man on sys-unconfig.

-USA..