[TriLUG] hosts.deny question?

[WA Brown]

Thanks for the replies. I found out that it does support tcp wrappers. 
Already turned on and configured in my dist.

WA Brown


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Porter" <porter at trilug.org>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] hosts.deny question?


> 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.
>
> For more information, see:
> http://www.php-editors.com/linuxredhat/ch-tcpwrappers.html
>
>
> Alan
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