Re: Server installation

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt yahoo com>]

On 2001-06-01, Kalevi Nyman wrote:

>Thanks for the explanation.
>You are right 100%.
>
>I don't dispute that.
>
> I am very, very angry about the fact that RedHat don't give a shit.
>
>Those covards have no guts to face the music.

Erhm, it seems you have missed John Summerfield's point completely. :)
Let's see:

>John Summerfield <summer os2 ami com au> wrote:
>
>>    A  non-existing  access  control  file is treated as if it were
>>    an empty file.
>>    Thus, access control can be turned off by providing no access
>>    control files.
>>
>>This the default condition is no control.
>>
>>The hosts.* files on both systems have no significant lines - they are
>>as installed.

What he's trying to point out is that the default RH 7.1
installation comes with _empty_ files /etc/hosts.allow and
/etc/hosts.deny which means you don't need any change at all to run
sendmail, normally. But I guess, if one had asked you for system
configuration details, you would have replied with insults only.