[Eug-lug] Re: Wrapping ta

[walter fry]

Y'know Iactually understood that.... thanks that was good!!!

>From: Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com>
>Reply-To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug at euglug.org>
>To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug at euglug.org>
>Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Re: Wrapping
>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:47:52 -0800
>
>walter fry wrote:
>
> > newbe walter here..
> > What means   wraping  ?  please
>
>tcpwrappers is a way to restrict access to network services running on
>a machine.  You can configure it so that, for example, your FTP service
>is only accessible from one group of IP addresses, and your ssh daemon
>is accessible from a different group.
>
>The daemon instance is "wrapped" by an external program that takes
>control before the daemon, checks that the source address is okay,
>then lets the daemon run normally (or else it shuts down and doesn't
>let the daemon run).
>
>To forestall your next question (-:, a daemon is a program that
>implements a service of some kind.  They're also called servers, but
>"server" can also mean the host on which services run.  Daemon always
>means the program.
>
>Also see the Hackers' Dictionary definition.
>http://www.google.com/search?q=hackers+dictionary+daemon
>
>It's a Unix/Linux convention that daemons' names end in "d" for
>daemon: ftpd, rlogind, httpd, mysqld, cupsd...
>
>--
>Bob Miller                              K<bob>
>kbobsoft software consulting
>http://kbobsoft.com                     kbob at jogger-egg.com
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