Re: solaris IDS 9.4 wont start after patch install

Hi David. Using gethostbyname(), getservicebyname() ? -- Tsutomu Ogiwara from Tokyo Japan. >From: david@smooth1.co.uk >Reply-To: david@smooth1.co.uk >To: informix-list@iiug.org >Subject: Re: solaris IDS 9.4 wont start after patch install >Date: 15 Dec 2005 19:59:43 -0800 > >Does anyone know how I could write code to check the services past of >sqlhosts? > >Something that checks a servicename is valid on the current machine? >What calls does >IDS use to check? > >Same for the hostname? Can someone give us code to parse sqlhosts and >check? >Preferably in C that compiles also with gcc so it is portable and I can >build binaries >for people? > >Something I have anyways wanted to do but never had time to code! > >Even if people cannot contribute code can they give me an idea for how >to check >for valid hostname (what DNS calls?) and service names (what >system/library calls??). sending to informix-list