I thought so too.. but that aint workin it.. I gotta look in /etc/xinetd.conf to see if there is a only_From line in there. Redhat never put that in the default.. (but redhat is WIDE open when you install that thing.. (pre 7 days anyways)
I just wasn't paying attention for some reason, I just know to make sure to set my hosts.deny and hosts.allow so script kiddies will stay off my damn identd.. > -----Original Message----- > From: Norbert Kamenicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xinetd > > > Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > > >Has anyone gotten xinetd to work?? > > > > Do ya kidding ? Of cource, I do not remember the time I had old > inetd on my linux box. I never had troubles with xinetd ... > and see advantages only. > > e.g. to make talk demon to work just do this: > > emerge netkit-talk > > change "disable=yes" to "disable=no" in /etc/xinetd.d/talk > > after forceing xinetd to reread config files and running "mesg y" > it have to work ... > > noro > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list