[PLUG] Time server broken...

[Darkhorse]

On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 23:31, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:58:31PM -0800, Darkhorse wrote:
> > rdate: got EOF from time server
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> So?  That's normal when you hit the end of any data stream
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> > Googling, the only suggestion I've found is downgrading to inetd.
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> inetd isn't a time server.
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> The next line is EOF.

It turned out to be tcp wrappers.  It's not obvious to me
how to explicitly allow something xinetd calls an internal
service without taking the this whole subnet is okay 
approach. Pursuing all is denied except
that that is allowed, this is not a goof fix.
If I filter with iptables, aren't tcp wrappers 
redundant?  Trying rpm -qf as I usually do to track
down documentation on hosts.allow and hosts.deny, 
that didn't get me anywhere.

One concern I have is that having not migrated to Redhat 9
or something else more recent than 7.2 and 7.3, information
online that I need will disappear.  One think in particular
I've run into a lot is Linux Journal articles reachable via
google.  It would be nice to get electronic
copies of useful materials from when 7.x was still out
for my own offline use.  Maybe in the future what is
really needed is continuous low level training and
something like CVS to make my own private information
repositories on Linux easy to maintain and update.

This gets back to the personal documentation thread 
because the shreds nature of a lot of the information
I pick up online is a pain to deal with.  It's not 
exactly the most appealing help source to have to 
depend on.