From CRUX Handbook: "The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries." Firstly, /etc/{services,protocols} are not up to date. I am suggesting using iana-etc[1]. Note, this will affect, for example, iptables rules with protocol names people are currently using. Ticket created, id: 94. Current core/netkit-base consists of the two files mentioned above (which hopefully can be updated), ping, inetd. Latest Changelog entry in netkit-base-0.17 is dated 24-Jul-2000. As I can see, modern distros prefer Iputils[1] which can provide at least more featured 'ping' command (just compare man pages). It is not a simple 'I want' but 'I need and many more people might need' features like 'ping -I eth1'. But Iputils is not a bleeding age project too (11/09/02). Nothing against inetd at this point. Of coarse, all above is IMHO. [1] http://www.sethwklein.net/projects/iana-etc [2] http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Iputils -- Mikhail Kolesnik ICQ: 260259143 IRC: mike_k at freenode/#crux, rusnet/#yalta Jabber: mike_k@jabber.lafox.net NIC handle: MKK83-UANIC