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Date:      Sat, 7 Nov 1998 22:47:50 +0200
From:      Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To:        "Norman C. Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>, Willow <willow@tds.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hosts.{deny|allow}
Message-ID:  <19981107224750.A19419@cityip.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <19981107083119.A28135@emu.sourcee.com>; from Norman C. Rice on Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 08:31:19AM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811061318250.18373-100000@zeus.tds.edu> <19981107092630.A17924@cityip.co.za> <19981107083119.A28135@emu.sourcee.com>

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On Sat, 07 Nov 1998 at 08:31 SAST, Norman C. Rice wrote:
> 
> Perhaps the confusion is due to the hosts_access(5) manual page
> referring to /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny in the 
> MOSTLY OPEN, BOOBY TRAPS, and FILES sections.

Quite so, and /etc is also the "normal" place you'd expect to find these
files (whatever "normal" really means in that context).

However, the FreeBSD /port/ of tcpd chooses to place them in /usr/local/etc.

-- V

Johann Visagie | wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 | ICQ: 20645559

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