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

[Chuck <nagy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:

> 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

Then you have a different inet init file. Only reload
does HUP. The restart does a stop and a start.