Re: [Netatalk-devel] TCP Wrappers not working under Linux

[jeff <je...@un...>]

Edmund Lam wrote:
> 
>    I emailed this list a while ago regarding TCP Wrappers under Linux
> and did not get any response. I had presume that it had been fixed, but
> testing of 1.5pre6 indicates that this is not the case.
> 
>    Netatalk-1.5pre6 when compiling from source fails to detect the
> presences of TCP-wrappers and hence fails to add the "-lwrap" to the
> libraries to be linked as well as #defining TCPWRAP. This occurs _even_
> if ``--with-tcp-wrappers'' is explicitly given to configure.
> 
>    If configure is provided the extra option ``--with-lib="-lwrap"''
> and ``config.h'' is manually edited to ``#define TCPWRAP 1'', then
> netatalk supports TCP-wrappers. I'm not sure whether other platforms
> are affected by this bug.
> 
>    Can somebody respond regarding whether this is a known problem and
> if not, can it be reproduced? If it is a bug, then does anyone know the
> ``correct'' way to fix it?

Already got it. It had to check for tcpd_warn, but it was checking for
something else that caused it to fail. I've just committed the change to
the CVS repository.

jeff