Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[deh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (D E Hammond)]

On 26 Sep, juergen.braukmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> [...]
> I discovered this later last week. Same seems to be true with the nfs
> server. I added the following lines to hosts.allow to find my peace:
> 
> sendmail: LOCAL, .forty.two
> rpc.nfsd: LOCAL, .forty.two
> rpc.mountd: LOCAL, .forty.two
> 
> As I just discovered I still got this problem with nfsd, since there was
> an "ALL:ALL" statement. Never the less, it works for sendmail.
> (Try to telnet to port 25 on localhost for verification)

Well I tried something like this and it complained that there was no
sendmail entry in inetd.conf.  It's commented out because sendmail runs
as daemon, not from inetd.  If it's uncommented in inetd.conf, it
complains that it can't bind to the port because it's already in use
(obviously). There must be a way to do this because, unless I'm missing
something, what would be the point of compiling sendmail with the tcp
wrappers library if the only way it could be used effectively is by
running it through inetd?  If it's running through inetd, rather than as
daemon, sendmail wouldn't need to be compiled with the library, no?

But if the only way to get mail accepted is to use ALL as the service
list, that's not much of a feature.  What am I missing?

 - Don


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