On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, David Hajoglou wrote:
> We have specific ip addresses we want to deny. However, we get this
> message when inetd looks at the file:
>
> from /var/log/maillog
>
> Sep 1 15:29:06 greenland ipop3d[6597]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line
> 615:missing ":" separator
>
> Sep 1 15:29:06 greenland ipop3d[6597]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line
> 616: missing ":" separator
Accoring to man hosts.deny in the EXAMPLES section your problem is a
missing : as in;
ALL: ALL
note^the :
>
> man hosts.deny doesn't give me any kind of example for the file. Please
> help as these people are hitting our pop server and killing our resources.
As to you not having an EXAMPLES section in hosts.deny, what distro
and version do you use. Redhat-6.0 has the examples, slackware 3.6
does not even have a man page for hosts.deny, or i did not install
all the man pages, thats possable as well ;-).
> thank You
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Regards Richard
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