walter fry wrote: > newbe walter here.. > What means wraping ? please
tcpwrappers is a way to restrict access to network services running on a machine. You can configure it so that, for example, your FTP service is only accessible from one group of IP addresses, and your ssh daemon is accessible from a different group. The daemon instance is "wrapped" by an external program that takes control before the daemon, checks that the source address is okay, then lets the daemon run normally (or else it shuts down and doesn't let the daemon run). To forestall your next question (-:, a daemon is a program that implements a service of some kind. They're also called servers, but "server" can also mean the host on which services run. Daemon always means the program. Also see the Hackers' Dictionary definition. http://www.google.com/search?q=hackers+dictionary+daemon It's a Unix/Linux convention that daemons' names end in "d" for daemon: ftpd, rlogind, httpd, mysqld, cupsd... -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
