Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 07:42:44 -0500 From: "Toby J. Swanson" <toby@milkyway.org> To: "wellsian" <wellsian@caffeine.com>, "Toby J. Swanson" <toby@antares.milkyway.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: tcpwrapper kills incoming email Message-ID: <003801bf81e9$4fe90ea0$13c2f1cd@milkyway.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002272231340.38943-100000@boris.netgate.net>
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Thanks for the help. I discovered it was a badly configured hosts.allow file. Hosts.allow did not allow incoming sendmail connections. > Do you know what you changed? A log is always important when doing admin > stuff. Not that I haven't been in your shoes... Maybe try script(1) next > time to record your actions? > > Did you wrap smtp? By that I mean, did you add or uncomment a line in > inetd.conf that begins with smtp? Maybe sendmail is disabled for everyone > in your hosts.allow or hosts.deny files? I'm just guessing here. Is email > the only thing that stopped working? > > Dave > > On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Toby J. Swanson wrote: > > > Email worked fine until. . . > > > > I set up tcpwrappers per example 3 in the tcpd man page. > > Now incoming email connections receive the message, > > > > 550 Access denied > > user@domain.com . . . Service unavailable > > > > I changed everything back to the original state, restarted > > inetd, then rebooted, but still get this message. > > > > Any ideas what happened? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Toby > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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