Re: Server installation

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt yahoo com>]

On 2001-05-31, Kalevi Nyman wrote:

<snip, too many unfriendly messages deleted>

Your behaviour is a demonstration of inability to run a Linux Server
and deal with other Red Hat users and/or customers properly. If you
mess up your system, please don't blame other users (like me) who
try to assist you, although you've not given any usable error
descriptions or error logs yet.

*PLONK*

On 2001-05-31, MikeV wrote:

>:># /etc/hosts.allow
>
>I am puzzled. I did not make any changes to my hosts.allow file.

You don't need to, unless you have a catch-all rule in hosts.deny.
Quite a many people use something like this as one form of added
security for all programs compiled against libwrap:

# /etc/hosts.deny
ALL: ALL

Someone else has copied from the hosts_access man page already. The
TCP wrapper stops at the first matching rule it finds in the order
hosts.allow and then hosts.deny. If hosts.deny doesn't deny access
to sendmail (e.g. via a catch-all rule), you don't need to override
that with giving access in hosts.allow.