[ale] I lied, tcp wrappers question (was bastille/exim)

[Yu, Jerry]

just to clarify, you didn't use 'smtp' literally,right?   'exim' , or
the actual "daemon process name (argv[0])", should be used, per
hosts_access man page.
just for test (while you trust your firewall), use 'ALL:ALL' to test.

all this said, w/o experience with 'exim'

# -----Original Message-----
# From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
# Behalf Of J.M. Taylor
# Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:46 AM
# To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
# Subject: [ale] I lied, tcp wrappers question (was bastille/exim)
# 
# 
# No such beast as tcpd. I did set smtp in hosts.allow, and 
# couldn't find anything to hup so I pulled a windows admin and 
# rebooted.  Stil no dice - refused connection from hostname 
# [IP] (tcp wrappers)
# 
# And I still can't telnet to the port.  Totally at a loss here....
# Thanks
# jenn
# 
# 
# On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Yu, Jerry wrote:
# 
# > check tcpd (tcp wrappers )
# > /etc/hosts.allow
# > /etc/hosts.deny
# > 
# > # -----Original Message-----
# > # From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
# # Behalf 
# > Of J.M. Taylor # Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:02 AM # To: 
# > ale at ale.org # Subject: [ale] exim or bastille problem...
# > #
# > # Setting up a new mail server using Exim. I always use # 
# Bastille to 
# > harden my servers, and am quite familiar with its # firewall config 
# > and I know it's allowing port 25. A quick # glance at my currently 
# > running iptables shows that traffic to # port 25 should be allowed.
# > #
# > # And yet, I can't telnet to the port. I'm running exim as 
# a # daemon.  
# > I'm not seeing anything in my logs except that exim # # refused 
# > connection from {hostname} [IP] () # # Over and over again. 
# What could 
# > be up with this?  xinetd is # not running that I can see, it's 
# > certainly not set to run at # this runlevel and doesn't 
# mention smtp 
# > anyway. This is Fedora # Core 3, if that helps. What else could be 
# > blocking email in # such a way?
# > #
# > # Thanks
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