From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 25 7: 2:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E46A015186; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 07:02:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from localhost (andyf@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA16308; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 02:02:37 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 02:02:36 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: "David O'Brien" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ascii art in hosts.allow In-Reply-To: <20000124233834.A83466@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > > What is the reason for putting a giant "Example!" in hosts.allow? > > So you'll notice that this file is an example and *demands* your > attention in configuring your system properly. Change it to hosts.allow.sample then? No hosts.allow file is essentially the same as the ALL:ALL:allow rule, no? > > I note that it was committed at 3 o'clock in the morning... > > Sounds like normal hacking time to me. Fair enough. Please note that I respect your efforts, and was not trying to insinuate anything. I just find this kind of [ascii art] thing a bit out of style with the rest of the system. This is the point I'm trying to make. > > was someone trying to make a point? > > Yes, don't shoot yourself in the foot by leaving your system wide open. Then say this in a new comment at the top of the file. It is not clear *why* you have to modify it, although the next set of comments does say "Start by allowing everything". It works out-of-the-box, so why should you change it? (yes, I know why). > > What other files have this type of gross bit-bloat in them? > > src/sys/ Again, what I was trying to say is that there aren't any other files with giant lettering in them, are there? > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message