[TriLUG] hosts.deny question?

Pat Regan thehead at patshead.com
Tue Mar 7 08:58:40 EST 2006


Alan Porter wrote:
> WA Brown wrote:
> 
>> Someone said that the server should use tcp wrappers. How can I find 
>> out if it does?
> 
> 
> There's no magic command for this.  But this trick works.
> 
> # strings -f yourbinaryfile | grep hosts_access
> 
> If the binary has been compiled against libwrap.a, you'll
> see at least one line of output with a matched string.

That will probably get the job done, but it would probably be better to do:

ldd <binary> | grep libwrap

Pat
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