FC5 mail and localhost

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 19:02 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 18:26 -0500, J. K. Cliburn wrote:
> > On 4/15/06, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net> wrote:
> > > After a Bunch of goggle searches I found the problem, and thought I
> > > would post it here to make sure the thread is complete.
> > >
> > > I had an entry in the host.deny file of ALL:ALL which excluded localhost
> > > permissions to use sendmail.  I am not sure why this has occurred on FC5
> > > but not FC4, but at least the problem is now resolved.
> > 
> > What did you set hosts.allow and hosts.deny to in order to solve your problem?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jay
> > 
> 
> Jay,
> 
> I had the entry ALL:ALL in hosts.deny so that everything would be
> restricted except for what is allowed in hosts.allow.  All I did was to
> erase the ALL:ALL in the hosts.deny file so that in effect it is empty.
> 
> I plan to do some more work with this before I am finished.  I do not
> understand why that made a difference because I had localhost
> unrestricted in hosts.allow as well as all sendmail unrestriced in
> hosts.allow  ie
> 
> hosts.allow ->
> ALL: localhost : allow
> sendmail: ALL: allow
> 
> This is the same setup I used for FC4, FC3, and FC1 and I did not have
> the problem.  
> 
This seems to me to be a bug. hosts.allow has always trumped hosts.deny.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>