From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 31 13:54:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7039837BF15; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:54:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 31 Mar 2000 22:54:37 +0100 (BST) To: Rici Lake Cc: Jeff Hamilton , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portmap in hosts.allow configuration notes. Was Re: /etc/hosts.allow In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:11:06 CDT." X-Request-Do: Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:54:37 +0100 From: David Malone Message-ID: <200003312254.aa61319@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The twist option cannot work other than in inetd mode. It causes the > calling process to be replaced (through the execl(3) system call) with an > configured shell process. If the calling process intended to hang around > for a while to answer more requests, it's in for a surprise. The wrapper library has a variable "resident". It looks like can be set to indicate that your are a process like portmap, sshd or sendmail, who doesn't want to be execed out of existance. I guess this should be set in these programs before any wrapper stuff is called - I haven't checked to see if it is, but I'll have a look. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message