11.2. Daemons

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.