From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 5 00:59:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA27856 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 00:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA27843; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 00:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA08628; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 00:58:48 -0700 (PDT) To: torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Major bogon in tcp_wrappers port. Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 00:58:48 -0700 Message-ID: <8624.870767928@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yes, I read the man pages for tcpd and for hosts_access(5) and pretty much everything I could get my hands on, and no matter what I put in for my /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files, it *always* allowed the connection in. After tearing out a little hair, it finally occurred to me that maybe this had been "localized" as well and that the files actually lived in /usr/local/etc. Bingo. That was it. The bogon is that this information was never patched into the man pages, so the new tcp_wrappers user is given completely bogus information and sent to the wrong place. As per proper ports etiquette, I'm sending this to the maintainer but will also be happy to fix this myself if Torsten is unable to do so for some reason. I was actually pretty shocked that this has been misdocumented for so long. :-) Jordan