David Hajoglou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We have specific ip addresses we want to deny. However, we get this
> message when inetd looks at the file:
>
> from /var/log/maillog
>
> Sep 1 15:29:06 greenland ipop3d[6597]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line
> 615:missing ":" separator
There's the answer right there. /etc/hosts.deny is missing a :
(colon)
My host.deny file looks like this...
ALL: ALL
So you would put ALL: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx = IP)
> man hosts.deny doesn't give me any kind of example for the file. Please
> help as these people are hitting our pop server and killing our resources.
Try man 5 hosts_access
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