[rhn-users] xinetd warning /etc/hosts.allow

[rick]

> On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, rick wrote:
> I upgraded my server from RH 7.2 to 9.0 back before year end so
> that I could continue using Red Hat's up2date service thru April 2004.
> However after the upgrade I started seeing messages like below in my
> /etc/messages logs. If I delete the last line and the last \, it complains
> about line 38. Does anyone have any ideas on this? I have googled all over
> and have not found anything.
>
> My hosts.allow contains...
> exim: LOCAL ALL
> imapd: LOCAL ALL
> sshd: ALL
>
> ALL: LOCAL \
>         63.193.165.24/255.255.255.248 \
>         216.228.17.178 \
>         216.228.17.179 \
>         216.228.17.180 \
>         216.228.17.181 \
>         209.232.245.18 \
>         209.232.245.19 \
>         209.232.245.20 \
>         209.232.245.21 \
>         209.232.245.22 \
>         63.193.165.30

> Not really sure. But maybe it is as simple as an extra space after one
> of those \'s? That would screw up the line-continuation.


Thanks for the reply Todd, but there are no extra spaces. If fact, I use
this same hosts.allow file on other boxes and they do not complain at all as
this one does.

Rick Whitworth
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