[syslog-ng] TCP Wrappers

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Wed Jul 9 18:07:30 CEST 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 09:57 -0400, Mike wrote:
> hello all,
> 
> it seems that TCP Wrappers can be enabled by default when compiling 
> syslog-ng 2.0.9, despite what the documentation says.
> 
> From what I can see, the configure script looks for the existance of 
> the libwrap libraries, and if they exist it will enable support (added in 
> syslog-ng 2.0.3).
> 
> would it be possible to either update the documents to mention that 
> libwrap is not disabled by default, or maybe make it so you do actually 
> have to manually enable libwrap?
> 
> (compiling on RedHat ES4, which has the libwrap devel libraries)

What's wrong with enabling tcp wrappers by default?

-- 
Bazsi



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