[ale] I lied, tcp wrappers question (was bastille/exim)

[Michael Hirsch]

As I recall, FC3 uses SELinux, so there are a whole host of new ways
for things to get turned off for you.  Youll want to figure out how
SELinux disables, say, port 25.  Or try turning it off entirely.

Michael

On Apr 1, 2005 10:46 AM, J.M. Taylor <jtaylor at onlinea.com> wrote:
> 
> No such beast as tcpd. I did set smtp in hosts.allow, and couldn't find
> anything to hup so I pulled a windows admin and rebooted.  Stil no dice -
> refused connection from hostname [IP] (tcp wrappers)
> 
> And I still can't telnet to the port.  Totally at a loss here....
> Thanks
> jenn
> 
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Yu, Jerry wrote:
> 
> > check tcpd (tcp wrappers )
> > /etc/hosts.allow
> > /etc/hosts.deny
> >
> > # -----Original Message-----
> > # From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On
> > # Behalf Of J.M. Taylor
> > # Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:02 AM
> > # To: ale at ale.org
> > # Subject: [ale] exim or bastille problem...
> > #
> > # Setting up a new mail server using Exim. I always use
> > # Bastille to harden my servers, and am quite familiar with its
> > # firewall config and I know it's allowing port 25. A quick
> > # glance at my currently running iptables shows that traffic to
> > # port 25 should be allowed.
> > #
> > # And yet, I can't telnet to the port. I'm running exim as a
> > # daemon.  I'm not seeing anything in my logs except that exim
> > #
> > # refused connection from {hostname} [IP] ()
> > #
> > # Over and over again. What could be up with this?  xinetd is
> > # not running that I can see, it's certainly not set to run at
> > # this runlevel and doesn't mention smtp anyway. This is Fedora
> > # Core 3, if that helps. What else could be blocking email in
> > # such a way?
> > #
> > # Thanks
> 
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