On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Phil Glatz wrote:

> At 04:17 PM 07/16/2001 -0500, Duke wrote:
> >Remember, that the analog.cfg is
> >parsed before other configuration files.  By excluding
> >a host in analog.cfg, it cannot be included in another
> >configuration file.
> 
> What I tried was doing an excluding in analog.cfg, then negating that with 
> an INCLUDE * in a subsequently read config file.
> 
> according to the manual:
> 
>    All the INCLUDE and EXCLUDE commands for that item are considered one by 
> one in
>    order, and the item is included or excluded according to the last 
> command it matched.
> 
> I took that to mean that an action in an earlier config file could be 
> reversed.  Perhaps I am wrong in this assumption

You're right, Phil; Duke is wrong. Another way to think of this is that
ALIASes match the earliest command that applies to them, but IN/EXCLUDEs
match the last.

> Including (+) and excluding (-) the following hosts:
>    All included, then
>    - 216.36.66.185
>    - 216.15.98.38
>    + *
> 
> This sounds like all hosts should be included, hence my confusion.
> 

They are all included. Why do you think they're not being included?

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