From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 7 12:49:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08637 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:49:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08613 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:49:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zcFGx-00053S-00; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 22:47:51 +0200 Message-ID: <19981107224750.A19419@cityip.co.za> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 22:47:50 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: "Norman C. Rice" , Willow , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosts.{deny|allow} References: <19981107092630.A17924@cityip.co.za> <19981107083119.A28135@emu.sourcee.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981107083119.A28135@emu.sourcee.com>; from Norman C. Rice on Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 08:31:19AM -0500 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message