[BlueOnyx:02791] Re: DFix note

[Gerald Waugh]

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 21:05 -0500, Darrell D. Mobley wrote:
> For those people using DFix, and have IP’s 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

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Gerald Waugh