Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:17 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher <mfisher@csh.rit.edu> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on necessity of tcp_wrappers port Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001101637450.372-100000@res112b-165.rh.rit.edu> In-Reply-To: <14458.20230.797957.124407@onceler.kcilink.com>
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>>>> "MF" == Mike Fisher <mfisher@csh.rit.edu> writes:
>
> MF> Unless I am in error, the functionality of the port's tcpd binary
> MF> (useful for logging) is not available from the FreeBSD version of
> MF> tcp_wrappers.
>
> The functionality of tcpd is built into inetd, when invoked with the
> flag -w, which seems to be the default configuration.
>
> What feature specifically is lacking? Where else would one use the
> tcpd binary other than inetd?
I was in error. I missed the -l flag, which does what I wanted to do
with tcpd (log all connection attempts).
Time for me to put on a pointy hat.
The port should still live for the people staying with legacy FreeBSD
systems, though, IMO.
- --
Mike
"The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power
into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit
yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian."
-- Murray Rothbard
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