From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 26 12:04:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24224 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 12:04:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA24217 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 12:04:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z0W4u-00039V-00; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 21:03:28 +0200 Message-ID: <19980726210328.A12102@cityip.co.za> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 21:03:28 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/hosts.deny ALL: ALL not working Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19980725164612.A23382@enteract.com> <19980726143249.B11602@cityip.co.za> <19980726115837.A5198@drwho.xnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980726115837.A5198@drwho.xnet.com>; from M. Maxwell on Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 11:58:37AM -0500 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message