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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!oleane!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!svgotcha.ubs.net!imp.ch!globalip.ch!rain.fr!panoramix.rain.fr!usenet From: Tom Fischer <tfischer@panoramix.rain.fr> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tcp_wrappers won't work! Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:32:08 +0000 Organization: panoramix InterNetNews test site Lines: 38 Message-ID: <326CBEC8.2781E494@panoramix.rain.fr> References: <548avr$184@news.ox.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: panoramix.rain.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) To: neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk Hello, I found with the ports version of tcpwrapper that the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files were configured to be found in /usr/local/etc, and NOT /etc. My guess is that the package edition was compiled in the same manner, so you'd have to move your hosts.* files into /usr/local/etc to get it to work... tom tfischer@rain.fr ==================================================== Neil J Long wrote: > > Hello > I found the cure for the no-boot problem thanks to Stan Brown - fdisk > completely messed up the disk geometry. > > Anyway it all booted fine but I just noticed something odd. > > tcp_wrappers package added OK, copied tcpd to /usr/libexec, edited > /etc/hosts.deny and allow, changed entries in inetd.conf - hup'd inetd > (even tried a reboot) and although inetd/tcpd logs connects it does > not pay any attention to the deny/allow files. > > Could someone else check this please. I am trying 2.2-961014-SNAP and its > packages off the src.doc.ic.ac.uk mirror. > > I ran tcpdchk and tcpdmatch - just won't pay any attention to the deny/allow > files. I'll get the src and rebuild tcpd but this is kind of weird. > > Neil > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > * Neil J Long, Department of Materials, University of Oxford > * Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK > * EMail: Neil.Long@materials.oxford.ac.uk > * Tel: +44 (0)1865-273678 Fax: +44 (0)1865-273789