Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 21:03:28 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/hosts.deny ALL: ALL not working Message-ID: <19980726210328.A12102@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <19980726115837.A5198@drwho.xnet.com>; from M. Maxwell on Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 11:58:37AM -0500 References: <19980725164612.A23382@enteract.com> <19980726143249.B11602@cityip.co.za> <19980726115837.A5198@drwho.xnet.com>
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On Sun, 26 Jul 1998 at 11:58 SAT, M. Maxwell wrote:
>
> I just made them symlinks to /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}. It's a little odd,
> but at least they end up where you expect them to be.
My objection to this (and I know it's nit-picking) is that if I get used to
working with the symlinks instead of the real files, I might do a backup with
(say) tar of /etc, and forget to dereference the symlinks, and so end up not
backing up critical configuration files.
I know... I know... more than enough applications store their configuration
in /usr/etc that this directory has to be included in any backup of your
system configuration anyway. But I still have my preferences. :-)
-- V
Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878
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