hosts.allow error

[Mike Burger]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Scott wrote:

> I'm running sendmail on a RH9 PC at the moment, soon to change that one to
> fedora C1 or C2 also. My question is about a message I get from sendmail. I
> copied it from the email:
>  --------------------- sendmail Begin ------------------------
> Relaying denied:
>     From [211.158.122.149] to a at 19.cn: 1 Times(s)
>     From md-wmnsmd-cuda1-a4a-a-43.chvlva.adelphia.net [xx.xx.xxx.xx] to
> xxxx at msn.com: 2 Times(s)
> 
> **Unmatched Entries**
>    /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: missing ":" separator: 144 Time(s)
>    /etc/hosts.allow, line 6: missing ":" separator: 144 Time(s)
> 
> What does it mean when it say's the ":" separator is missing?

The entries should read:

service: address.to.be.allowed
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