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Frank Wiles
frank at wiles.org
Tue Oct 26 16:05:03 CDT 2004
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:00:38 -0400 (EDT)
"Jon Moss" <jon.moss at cnonline.net> wrote:
> I've changed it and we'll see what happens.
>
> FYI - SMTP is not running as a service. Sendmail is (I did a ps -ef
> and a chkconfig --list to verify).
SMTP is Simple Mail Transport Protocol which is what Sendmail, and
every other E-mail server on the planet, uses to send E-mail. It's
not a "server" or "daemon", but the "service name" as taken from
/etc/services is smtp. That is what tcpwrappers uses to know what
port to block.
For example, I assume you're running OpenSSH, but you only put SSH
in the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files because that is the name of
the service.
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