Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:21:31 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Noah <admin2@enabled.com> Subject: Re: portsentry - flushing hosts.deny Message-ID: <20030929162131.GB26758@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Resent-Message-ID: <20030929162502.GC26758@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030929160815.M65639@enabled.com> References: <20030929160815.M65639@enabled.com>
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:10:22AM -0800, Noah wrote:
>
> FreeBSD 4.8 - stable
>
>
> can somebody tell me how to get portsentry to flush the hosts.deny file? or
> do I just need to remove the contents manually and restart portsentry?
You don't need to do that for two reasons:
i) tcp_wrappers re-reads it's configuration file automatically
whenever a new connection gets made to a wrapped service: any changes
will be picked up instantaneously.
ii) Under FreeBSD the default is to compile tcp_wrappers using the
optional host_options(5) style. That means that only /etc/hosts.allow
is consulted, and each rule in that file contains an extra final field
(compared to the hosts_access(5) style) which says whether the rule is
an ALLOW or DENY rule.
Cheers,
Matthew
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