On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Dino A Amato wrote:
> Hello -
> I have a question and was wondering what your thoughts are?
>
> I just loaded RedHat 7.2 and I saw that it installs fam. As a current SGI
> person here at NASA I am familiar with this.
>
> On Linux I noticed something odd when using /etc/hosts.allow
> /etc/hosts.deny with the /etc/hsots.deny having ALL:ALL:spawn <blabalhabl>
> to catch things that we miss with /etc/hosts.deny.
> After a reboot and when logging in/out for the first time, the tcp
> wrappers alerts me to:
>
> fam: connection refused from unknown@unknown
Does this happen only once?
> If I remove the ALL: in /etc/hosts.deny I do not get this alert.
>
> Do we have to add a line to the allow/deny for fam to get rid of this
> alert or can we make a change to the /etc/fam/conf file?
I suck at tcp-wrappers, so i don't really know. But there is no fam config
option for this that i know of.
The fam in RH 7.2 only binds to 127.0.0.1 though, so you should not need
to protect it.
/ Alex
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