Gerald Waugh wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 21:05 -0500, Darrell D. Mobley wrote:
>
>> For those people using DFix, and have IP窶冱 whitelisted
>> in /etc/hosts.allow, you should know that DFix throws away hosts.allow
>> entries that have comments after the entry.
>>
>
> Comments in the /etc/hosts.allow are very similar to shell scripts where
> each comment line starts with a hash mark (#) and extends to the end of
> the line. There is one significant difference in how comments are
> handled in hosts.allow and shell scripts is that comments are not
> allowed after a rule. The following example shows valid uses of comments
> in the file.
>
> # this is a valid comment
> portmap : 1.2.3.4 : deny
> # so is this
>
> sshd : 9.8.7.6 : deny # but not this one
>
Hi All.
I have done a few tweaks in the source that will make it a little more
forgiving to the formatting in hosts.allow. I wont bother releasing this
just yet - its only a small tweak. It will be included in the next
release (whenever that may be).
Regards,
Greg.
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