From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 8 19:53:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EDDE16A41F for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 19:53:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.151.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D1443D46 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 19:53:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from [66.92.151.30] (april.chuckr.org [66.92.151.30]) by chuckr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81FA111660 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 15:45:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <434821D3.7080409@chuckr.org> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:45:23 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050625) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: hosts.allow X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:53:58 -0000 I shouldn't write this while I'm frustrated. I just hope it doesn't leak out, I know I tend to do that. I'm having trouble getting my mounts to work with my newly attached Zaurus, to my trusty FreeBSD server. I have gotten past several problems, began googling error messages, and hit the /etc/hosts.allow file. Here I've hit a problem. The file, both the internals of it (which is a mass of examples with nearly no explanations) and the man page, are either circular definitions, or missing ones, grossly missing. One glaring example, in the man page, the single most commonly used token is "ALL" but even though it's used more than any other token, it's not defined, even slightly. What does ALL mean? Hmm, howcome security info, which is the most important, is always the worst documented, and set up with the most complicated syntax? If you MUST use examples, they should only be used to illustrate items that have explanations, they should never ever be used as the primary explanation. I can't figure out how to use /etc/hosts.allow. I'm not sure if it is, or is not, affecting my rpcbind. Well, you be the judge, did I let my frustration out of the bag this time?