On 5/10/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >2) The contents o the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. > > > >Where are these files? They do not seem to be present on my machine? > >Should they not be created by some part of the baseline system > >install? > > > > > > The files hosts.allow and hosts.deny are the configuration files for TCP > wrappers/tcpd access control. Anything that runs under tcpd (or is > built with +tcpd) will use these files to determine what machines can > (hosts.allow) or cannot (hosts.deny) access the server.
Humm...so am I *required to have the files? Maybe that's part of the problem! dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv nfs-utils These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-fs/nfs-utils-1.0.6-r6 +tcpd 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB dragonfly ~ # > > So if you USE +tcpd (usually a good idea!), you'll want to read "man > hosts.allow". > > >* sys-apps/xinetd > > > > > I don't know if inetd is required, but if so, this is the one you want > on the server. It's not shown as needed on this Gentoo Wiki: http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_Share_Directories_via_NFS -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
