source: clfs-embedded/BOOK/final-system/common/iana-etc.xml@ 2c5aad4

Last change on this file since 2c5aad4 was 406ca8f, checked in by Andrew Bradford <bradfa@…>, 14 years ago

Updated Iana-Etc to pull new data from IANA

Thanks to Grail Dane (grail69 at hotmail dot com) for pointing out
that Iana-Etc has a built in updating mechanism for getting the newest
copies of /etc/protocols and /etc/services direct from IANA rather
than use the ones found in the tarball.

See mailing list thread:
http://lists.cross-lfs.org/pipermail/clfs-dev-cross-lfs.org/2011-January/000866.html

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-iana-etc" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="iana-etc.html"?>
10
11 <title>Iana-Etc-&iana-etc-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iana-etc">
14 <primary sortas="a-Iana-Etc">Iana-Etc</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Iana-Etc package provides data for network services and
21 protocols.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Iana-Etc</title>
27
28 <para os="a">The <filename>protocol-numbers.dist</filename> and
29 <filename>port-numbers.dist</filename> files that come with Iana-Etc
30 are outdated. Also, IANA has moved their copy of protocol-numbers.
31 In order to ensure we use correct and up to date data, first modify the
32 Makefile and then download the updates:</para>
33
34<screen os="b"><userinput>sed -i '/file=/s@protocol-numbers@&amp;/&amp;.txt@' Makefile
35make get</userinput></screen>
36
37 <para os="c">The following command then converts the raw data provided by
38 IANA into the correct formats for the <filename>/etc/protocols</filename>
39 and <filename>/etc/services</filename> data files:</para>
40
41<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
42
43 <para os="e">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
44
45 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
46
47<screen os="g"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>
48
49 </sect2>
50
51 <sect2 id="contents-iana-etc" role="content">
52 <title>Contents of Iana-Etc</title>
53
54 <segmentedlist>
55 <segtitle>Installed files</segtitle>
56
57 <seglistitem>
58 <seg>/etc/protocols and /etc/services</seg>
59 </seglistitem>
60 </segmentedlist>
61
62 <variablelist>
63 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
64 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
65 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
66
67 <varlistentry id="protocols">
68 <term><filename>/etc/protocols</filename></term>
69 <listitem>
70 <para>Describes the various DARPA Internet protocols that are
71 available from the TCP/IP subsystem</para>
72 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iana-etc">
73 <primary sortas="e-/etc/protocols">/etc/protocols</primary>
74 </indexterm>
75 </listitem>
76 </varlistentry>
77
78 <varlistentry id="services">
79 <term><filename>/etc/services</filename></term>
80 <listitem>
81 <para>Provides a mapping between friendly textual names for internet
82 services, and their underlying assigned port numbers and protocol
83 types</para>
84 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iana-etc">
85 <primary sortas="e-/etc/services">/etc/services</primary>
86 </indexterm>
87 </listitem>
88 </varlistentry>
89
90 </variablelist>
91
92 </sect2>
93
94</sect1>
95
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