1. NAME▲

try-from - test program for the tcp_wrapper

2. SYNOPSIS ▲

try-from

3. DESCRIPTION ▲

The

try-from command can be called via a remote shell command to find out if the hostname and address are properly recognized by the

tcp_wrapper library, if username lookup works, and (SysV only) if the TLI on top of IP heuristics work. Diagnostics are reported through

R syslog (3) and redirected to stderr. Example: rsh host /some/where/try-from

4. SEE ALSO ▲

R hosts_access (5),

R hosts_options (5),

R tcpd (8)

5. AUTHOR ▲

Wietse Venema, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.