On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, aoc wrote:
> one thing that pisses me off about linux is its programs'
> unpredictability. take tcpd for one. i comment out a line in
> /etc/hosts.allow , killall -HUP inetd, test it.., uncomment out that same
> line, killall -HUP inetd, but the daemon still refuses to start (that or
Apparently, sending HUP to inetd has no effect - tcpd reads its config
every request inetd receives, so there's no need to do it.
> it behaves in an unexpected manner).this has happened to me countless of
> times (w/tcpd, netcfg, usercfg) before and i am sure none were errors
> on my part.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be so sure. You have just shown that you
don't know what tcpd does. If the same applies on other parts of your
system, than what can one expect?
Bye Borek
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