Re: [cobalt-users] Adding hosts to the hosts.deny file?

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Chuck wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Mike Fritsch wrote:
> > 
> > > If I add a host to the host.deny file do I need to reboot the server or
> > > restart something in order for the changes to take place?
> > 
> > restart inetd, eg killall -1 inetd
> 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart 
> 
> is better, since you will see error messages if you made a mistake in the
> config files.

for most services, yes, but this is all that's in the init file:

  restart|reload)
        killall -HUP inetd
        ;;

so it's kinda a waste, you still need to check the log files ;0