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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
