ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-24 Thread Andy Farkas
What is the reason for putting a giant "Example!" in hosts.allow? I note that it was committed at 3 o'clock in the morning... was someone trying to make a point? What other files have this type of gross bit-bloat in them? Here is a patch: (please notice the spelling correction) --- host

Re: ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-24 Thread Chris Piazza
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 03:03:32PM +1100, Andy Farkas wrote: > > > What is the reason for putting a giant "Example!" in hosts.allow? > > I note that it was committed at 3 o'clock in the morning... was someone > trying to make a point? > > What other files have this type of gross bit-bloat in

Re: ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 03:03:32PM +1100, Andy Farkas wrote: > What is the reason for putting a giant "Example!" in hosts.allow? So you'll notice that this file is an example and *demands* your attention in configuring your system properly. > I note that it was committed at 3 o'clock in the mor

Re: ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 03:03:32PM +1100, Andy Farkas wrote: > Here is a patch: (please notice the spelling correction) Where? I just ran ispell on src/etc/hosts.allow and it didn't catch anything. -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-24 Thread Kevin Day
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 03:03:32PM +1100, Andy Farkas wrote: > > Here is a patch: (please notice the spelling correction) > > Where? I just ran ispell on src/etc/hosts.allow and it didn't catch > anything. A more direct patch would have been: -# NOTE: The hosts.deny file is not longer us

Re: ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:46:01 CST, Kevin Day wrote: > A more direct patch would have been: > > -# NOTE: The hosts.deny file is not longer used. Instead, put both 'allow' > +# NOTE: The hosts.deny file is no longer used. Instead, put both 'allow' I'm concerned about the authenticity of this c

Re: ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-25 Thread John Baldwin
On 25-Jan-00 David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 03:03:32PM +1100, Andy Farkas wrote: >> Here is a patch: (please notice the spelling correction) > > Where? I just ran ispell on src/etc/hosts.allow and it didn't catch > anything. not -> no I think.. it was more of a gramma gotcha t

Re: ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-25 Thread John Baldwin
On 25-Jan-00 John Baldwin wrote: > > On 25-Jan-00 David O'Brien wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 03:03:32PM +1100, Andy Farkas wrote: >>> Here is a patch: (please notice the spelling correction) >> >> Where? I just ran ispell on src/etc/hosts.allow and it didn't catch >> anything. > > not -

Re: ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-25 Thread Andy Farkas
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > > What is the reason for putting a giant "Example!" in hosts.allow? > > So you'll notice that this file is an example and *demands* your > attention in configuring your system properly. Change it to hosts.allow.sample then? No hosts.allow file is e

Re: ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 02:02:36 +1100, Andy Farkas wrote: > > So you'll notice that this file is an example and *demands* your > > attention in configuring your system properly. > > Change it to hosts.allow.sample then? No hosts.allow file is essentially > the same as the ALL:ALL:allow rule, no?

Re: ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-26 Thread Andy Farkas
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Change it to hosts.allow.sample then? No hosts.allow file is essentially > > the same as the ALL:ALL:allow rule, no? > > No. In the absence of a hosts.allow file, hosts_access(3) denies all. Not according to what I read in 'man 5 hosts_access' -

Re: ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 03:57:51 +1100, Andy Farkas wrote: > > No. In the absence of a hosts.allow file, hosts_access(3) denies all. > > Not according to what I read in 'man 5 hosts_access' - especially the > second paragraph titled "ACCESS CONTROL FILES". Wtf?! You're right. I'm frightened no

Re: ascii art in hosts.allow

2000-01-27 Thread Randy Bush
> But...but... ITS SUCH AN EYE-SORE! all depends on what image of professionalism freebsd thinks it is trying to project. randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message