From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 27 17:58:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from drwho.xnet.com (drwho.xnet.com [205.243.140.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD141554F for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:58:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drwho@drwho.xnet.com) Received: (from drwho@localhost) by drwho.xnet.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id TAA17672 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:58:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from drwho) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:58:30 -0600 From: Michael Maxwell To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Location of hosts.* files Message-ID: <19990327195830.D17445@drwho.xnet.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Cillian Sharkey on Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 08:00:29PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 08:00:29PM +0000, Cillian Sharkey wrote: > Yes, you can use the tcp_wrappers package which you can get from the > FreeBSD CD's or the ports collection. > > Once it's installed, the hosts.allow and hosts.deny should be in > /usr/local/etc > > You'll also have to change your /etc/inetd.conf file, an example is given > in /usr/local/etc/inetd.conf.wrapped.sample showing how to set it up. Just curious, but are there any plans on moving the locations of these files to /etc, which just happens to be where they are located on every other OS I can think of? -- Michael Maxwell | http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ "American Justice: oxymoron. William J. Clinton: moron." --M. Maxwell (1999) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message