on 7/4/00 2:39 AM, Theodore Jones at theoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > What's the difference between "hosts.deny" and "hosts.deny.cobalt"?.. > under /etc... hosts.deny is the currently used file. hosts.deny.cobalt is a backup file similar to autoexec.bat vs. autoexec.bak The hosts.deny.cobalt is probably the defualt file that the machine ships with. -k