Author: Sheldon Hearn Date: To: Odhiambo G. Washington CC: Exim Users Mailing List, Kevin Reed Subject: Re: [Exim] TCP_Wrappers question...
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:39:39 +0300, "Odhiambo G. Washington" wrote:
> I don't know how it works on (Slow)aris but in FreeBSD I'd have to HUP
> inetd after making changes to hosts.allow - my point being you don't
> have to restart a daemon just because you've mod the wrappers file, no?
You have a very odd FreeBSD system. The stock FreeBSD distribution has
never needed inetd to be HUPped for changes to hosts.allow since the
introduction of TCP Wrappers support into inetd (which I was involved
in).
You only need to HUP inetd for changes to inetd.conf.
