From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 28 13:06:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12507 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:06:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12496 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:06:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04252; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:06:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <360FEC45.D653258A@dal.net> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:06:30 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0920 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpd - 8192K ??? From pagkage. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josh wrote: > > Well, after some offlist conversations I have a red face. We've all been there, don't sweat it. > tcpd from the package (8192 bytes) works OK if you have the > hosts.allow and hosts.deny in /usr/local/etc ;-) > While this does not seem the "correct" place for these > files, that is where they are expected to be. The man page > says so as well :-( Gotta love those man pages. :) But seriously folks, /usr/local IS the home for all of the "after market" software on a FreeBSD system, and less universally, on most other BSD's as well. On Sys5 you'd look in /opt/local (usually) for the same kind of stuff. > I actually symlinked /etc/hosts.allow and .deny to > /usr/local/etc/hosts.allow and .deny. I usually do that too, depending on the level of clue the other people using the system have. :) Another thing I do is to symlink /usr/local/etc/ to /etc/local/. This gives me a little less to type, and lets me back up all that stuff at the same time without having to think about it. :) Keep reading those man pages, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message