>> Apparently, sending HUP to inetd has no effect - tcpd reads its
config
>> every request inetd receives, so there's no need to do it.
>
>i may be a newbie but i do know for a fact that "killall -HUP inetd" is
>needed to reread the /etc/hosts.allow / /etc/hosts.deny files.
>further, the problem i've been having is now solved. for a while, the
>telnet daemon refused to work.. i left it alone for 5 minutes, tried
>again, and this time it did work... how else can you explain that?
Wrong, I often edit /etc/hosts.allow and .deny on the fly and the changes
are effective as soon as the file is saved.
Willie.
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