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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 1999 07:04:21 +0200
From:      Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de>
To:        "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.2 hosts.allow Problems
Message-ID:  <19990715070421.A5157@alaska.cert.siemens.de>
In-Reply-To: <7mj7en$k45$1@twwells.com>; from T. William Wells on Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 07:48:01PM -0400
References:  <378CFDFC.16B891CC@cswnet.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907141509360.29705-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com> <7mj7en$k45$1@twwells.com>

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On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 07:48:01PM -0400, T. William Wells wrote:
> In article <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907141509360.29705-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com>,
> Doug  <Doug@gorean.org> wrote:
> : > Now nothing is being denied.  To restart inetd, I am using "killall
> : > inetd;inetd".
> :
> :       First, you shouldn't have to start inetd for changes in
> : hosts.allow to take effect.
> 
> "Shouldn't" is correct. Unfortunately, reality doesn't conform. In
> my experience, you have to kill (SIGTERM) inetd and restart it in
> order for hosts.allow changes to take effect.
> 

No, that's not true. I never restarted inetd to enable changes in hosts.allow.
(Only changes in inetd.conf have to be signald via kill -HUP, but that's a
different thing).

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