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11.2 Daemons
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The configuration files ‘/etc/services’, ‘/etc/protocols’, and
‘/etc/rpc’ are managed by the ‘netbase’ package and must not be modified
by other packages.

If a package requires a new entry in one of these files, the maintainer
should get in contact with the ‘netbase’ maintainer, who will add the
entries and release a new version of the ‘netbase’ package.

The configuration file ‘/etc/inetd.conf’ must not be modified by the
package’s scripts except via the ‘update-inetd’ script or the
‘DebianNet.pm’ Perl module.  See their documentation for details on how
to add entries.

If a package wants to install an example entry into ‘/etc/inetd.conf’,
the entry must be preceded with exactly one hash character (‘#’).  Such
lines are treated as “commented out by user” by the ‘update-inetd’
script and are not changed or activated during package updates.