[1958] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
[linux-security] Re: tcpd anomaly
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Annex)
Sun Jul 5 05:07:45 1998
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 17:37:12 +0600 (BGT)
From: Annex <annex@thing.annexgrp.org>
To: Wietse Venema <wietse@porcupine.org>
cc: linux-security@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <19980702115529.45875E0CF0@spike.porcupine.org>
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Resent-Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Wietse Venema wrote:
| P.S. Appending "&" to a "twist" command will screw it up: the shell
| will close the standard input of the twisted command, so it can't
| read from the network.
just wanted to add: I wasn't using TWIST when I had "&" at the end. what I
had was:
smbd: ALL: (/bin/echo "%u at %n (%a) to %d" | \
/bin/mail me) &
in /etc/hosts.deny
don't flame me, I don't use it anymore.
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