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Re: [suse-security] SuSE and tcpd
  • From: Bastian Friedrich <bastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:03:45 +0100 (CET)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111151157360.19747-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Togan Muftuoglu schrieb am Wed, 14 Nov 2001 um 19:16:

> * Nigel Cox; <ncox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on 14 Nov, 2001 wrote:
>
> > it is as if tcpd is not reading the /etc/hosts.* files
>
> Have you restarted inet.d

You don't have to. the tcp wrapper is started with every connection
attempt, re-reading /etc/hosts.[allow|deny].

Even programs "directly" linked against libwrap (such as syslogd or sshd)
don't have to be restarted; libwrap reads it's configuration files on each
new connection.

Regards,
Bastian

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