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latgarf

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Registered: 2012-12-14

Posts: 32

Conky tcp_portmon rservice & lservice not working

When in ~/.conkyrc, this line

${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 0}

is supposed to display "local service name from /etc/services" (for the first TCP connection) according to Conky docs.
But it displays a port number instead.
Moreover, my system does not have directory /etc/services at all!
Any ideas how to fix this?

Here's the relevant section from Conky's docs:

tcp_portmon port_begin port_end item (index)

TCP port (both IPv6 and IPv4) monitor for specified local ports.
Port numbers must be in the range 1 to 65535.

Valid items are:
    count Total number of connections in the range
    rip Remote ip address
    rhost Remote host name
    rport Remote port number
    rservice Remote service name from /etc/services
    lip Local ip address
    lhost Local host name
    lport Local port number
    lservice Local service name from /etc/services

Example: 

 ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 14}

Displays the local service name of the fifteenth connection in the range of all ports.