[TriLUG] hosts.deny question?

[WA Brown]

You are probably right. I dont know the format. This is one of the things I 
am learning. I just dont have the "basics" of linux. I have bought a bunch 
of books but cant find one that I need. Most are over my head. Just as with 
this problem. I need and exact example to see how something should be done.

WA Brown

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Owen Berry" <oberry at trilug.org>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] hosts.deny question?


>I think you have the Apache configuration file confused with the
> hosts.deny file. What you have looks suspiciously like the format for an
> Apache Location or Directory.
>
> Reading:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#directory
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#location
>
> Man pages (type on command line):
> man hosts.deny
> man hosts.allow
> man tcpd
>
> Hope that helps. No problem with the "newbie" questions - how else do
> you learn.
>
> Owen
>
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 19:44 -0500, WA Brown wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>       I am new to this group and linux. I hope you tolerate another
>> "newbie". I have a server online at www.havenstead.net and am learning 
>> how
>> to do things with it everyday. I am running Redhat9 with an Apache 2.0
>> server.
>>
>> This is what I have in the "hosts.deny" file. What have I got wrong?
>>
>> #
>> # hosts.deny    This file describes the names of the hosts which are
>> #               *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
>> #               by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
>> #
>> # The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that
>> # the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow.  In particular
>> # you should know that NFS uses portmap!
>>
>>
>>
>>       Order allow,deny
>>       Allow from all
>>
>>       Deny from 218.64.*.*
>>       Deny from 61.134.32.18
>>
>>
>> This what i am getting on my report. How should it be listed?
>>
>> WA Brown
>>
>>
>> 6 02:45:02 www sshd[32311]: Did not receive identification string from
>> 211.171.202.87
>>
>> Mar 6 07:50:10 www sshd[5322]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 12: missing
>> ":" separator
>>
>> Mar 6 07:50:10 www sshd[5322]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 13: missing
>> ":" separator
>>
>> Mar 6 07:50:10 www sshd[5322]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 15: missing
>> ":" separator
>>
>> Mar 6 07:50:10 www sshd[5322]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 16: missing
>> ":" separator
>>
>>
>
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