On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Argentium G. Tiger wrote: at> At 07:57 04/28/2000 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: at> at> >In hosts.allow I have: at> > at> >ALL : 192.168.0. at> > at> >to allow all local access. at> > at> > at> >Now, in hosts.deny I deny all. I was trying to send mail to myself when at> >someone tries to access. Although access is blocked, I'm not getting any at> >mail. at> Bill, what line do you have in your hosts.deny file? I use the following in mine: ALL: (/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h /usr/bin/mail -s %d-%h root) & and then have a .forward file in the root directory to forward it to my address on my mail server. at> In SuSE 6.2, I noticed that anything in hosts.allow overrided hosts.deny as at> documented in the manual. at> at> As of 6.3 however, hosts.deny seems to override hosts.allow, going against at> what the documentation says. at> at> Anyone else notice this problem? at> Argentium, havn't noticed it on my end, all machines running 6.3 with updates. at> Argentium at> at> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/