New /etc/services?

[Jerry Lundström]

Auke Kok wrote:
> Jerry Lundström wrote:
> 
>> Jon South wrote:
>>
>>> Would it be possible to distribute a new /etc/services on the ISO 
>>> using the one from http://www.graffiti.com/services ?
>>>
>>> It's much more complete than any other services file I've ever seen 
>>> and has been quite useful to me as a network admin...Was hoping to 
>>> share the wealth :)
>>
>>
>>
>> How about I make a module that will merge the content of that url with 
>> our service? =)
> 
> 
> 
> that would be the proper approach as ^/etc/services is $PROTECTED and 
> therefore never will be removed. Merging contents would be better, but 
> if you look at /etc/services from the ISO you'll see that it's not that 
> easy... (merge && sort won't work, perhaps merge unknown entries at the 
> end...? )

Yes, I was only thinking of adding entries not already in, like we do 
with services from other modules. Just that when you lin this one it 
will get a fresh of the net.

Or we could just make a dummy module with the services in it and update 
it once a week.

lin graffiti-extra-services ? =)