Ok, this is how I wrote the files: hosts.deny ALL: ALL hosts.allow ALL: localhost
or hosts.allow ALL: localhost :ALL If I'm right, this should block any attempts to telnet/ftp/finger etc. from the outside of 127.0.0.1 But I still can login from a different IP, and my syslog contains this: Jan 11 14:25:36 Scorpio in.telnetd[20731]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 0: missing newline or line too long Jan 11 14:25:36 Scorpio in.telnetd[20731]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 0: missing newline or line too long when I telnet to my machine. What am I doing wrong this time? TIA, Andrew