From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 12:18:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3171F37B401 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6429C43E70 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:18:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@jrpenn.demon.co.uk) Received: from jrpenn.demon.co.uk ([194.222.241.254]) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 17YAbR-0005Dh-0U for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:18:17 +0100 Received: from jrpenn.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jrpenn.demon.co.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6QJJm9G000609 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:19:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jeff@jrpenn.demon.co.uk) Received: (from jeff@localhost) by jrpenn.demon.co.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6OKKLv3002533 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:20:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jeff) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:20:21 +0100 From: Jeff Penn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD config files - tutorials, how-to, other pointers? Where? Message-ID: <20020724202021.GA2421@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <000001c232da$fb119cd0$0190a8c0@alpha> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c232da$fb119cd0$0190a8c0@alpha> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 01:25:51AM -0500, David Merriman wrote: > Are there any kind of reference docs to the various configuration files > in FreeBSD? I mean, stuff that explains what the different lines & > entries in them are, preferably with examples? > > As a for-instance, I'm looking at the hosts.allow file, and the man page > doesn't do much to clarify what the different sections are for, or what > the line entires mean. You may have made the same mistake as me. Entering man hosts_access did not help, it eventually dawned on me that I should have entered man 5 hosts_access. Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message