From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Feb 14 22:53:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2ABA41E6 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:53:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 34642 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Feb 2000 06:53:37 -0000 Date: 14 Feb 2000 22:53:37 -0800 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:53:37 -0800 From: Bill Swingle To: Mark Murray Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcp_wrappers in contrib? Message-ID: <20000214225337.B34501@dub.net> References: <20000214195115.B31247@dub.net> <200002150547.e1F5lFw48651@gratis.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200002150547.e1F5lFw48651@gratis.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 07:47:14AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 07:47:14AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > > In looking at > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=14024 today, I realized that: > > > > 1) this PR indeed needs fixed. hosts_access(3|5) both mention the > > hosts.deny file which we no longer use. > > _We_ don't use it; it can be used if you want... Ah, gotcha. I was under the impression that we had removed that functionality somehow. > > 2) tcp_wrappers are still in contrib which means #1 can't really be > > fixed. > > It can; it is just discouraged. > > > Since tcp_wrappers are now part of the base system and we don't > > use it exactly stock, is it time to move tcp_wrappers out of contrib? > > Eeeeew. Sleeping dogs; let's do what fixes we can where it is. Ok, I'll close this PR under the "hands off contrib" rule. -Bill -- -=| --- B i l l S w i n g l e --- http://www.dub.net/ -=| unfurl@dub.net - unfurl@freebsd.org - bill@cdrom.com -=| Different all twisty a of in maze are you, passages little To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message