Re: noffle&pan

On 24-Feb-2003 Tomislav Ivan Flis wrote:
> On Monday 24 February 2003 10:23, you wrote:
>> On 23-Feb-2003 Tomislav Ivan Flis wrote:
>> > YES, I was running xinetd
>>
>> OK, good.
> 
> so it's nota a problem?

Not a problem. Well, it shouldn't be. Noffle definitely works properly with
xinetd. But I don't use xinetd on any of my systems, so I'm not as familiar
with it as I might be. So please be patient; I'm groping my way here. :-)

> Feb 24 17:50:59 localhost xinetd[2243]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 6: 
> missing newline or line too long
> Feb 24 17:50:59 localhost xinetd[2243]: libwrap refused connection to nntp 
> from 127.0.0.1

Ah! This looks a clue as to what exactly is causing the problem. libwrap is the
code that implements the 'hosts.allow' and 'hosts.deny' functionality. So it
looks like xinetd is configured properly, and we need to inspect these.

The first warning looks like it thinks something is wrong with
/etc/hosts.allow. I wonder if that it causing the problem.

'man 5 hosts_access' for the details of what you can put in those files.

Your /etc/hosts.allow file looks a bit suspect to me. I think the line saying
just

localhost

is wrong. The format for hosts.allow is 'daemon name: client_list', e.g.

noffle: localhost

Since you already have an entry for noffle in your /etc/hosts.deny, I suggest
that you simple remove the 'localhost' line from /etc/hosts.allow, and leave it
blank except for comments.

Let's see if that works...

-- 
Jim Hague - [email protected] (Work), [email protected] (Play)
Never trust a computer you can't lift.


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