1.5.18: telnet: tcp/telnet: unknown service

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Marcel Kloosterman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've a problem with telnet, ftp and probably more programs. But not ssh.
> I don't know since when this problem appeared on my system,
> [snip]
> 108     13:35:01        telnet.exe:5396 OPEN
> C:\cygwin\bin\%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\services        PATH NOT
> FOUND  Options: Open  Access: All

Looks like your /etc/services symlink is corrupted.  Remove it (and
/etc/hosts, /etc/protocols, /etc/networks), and re-run
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done.
	Igor
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