.TH TRY-FROM 8 "21th June 1997" Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual" | |
.SH NAME | |
try-from \- test program for the tcp_wrapper | |
.SH SYNOPSIS | |
.B try-from | |
.SH DESCRIPTION | |
The | |
.B try-from | |
command can be called via a remote shell command to find out | |
if the hostname and address are properly recognized | |
by the | |
.B tcp_wrapper | |
library, if username lookup works, and (SysV only) if the TLI | |
on top of IP heuristics work. Diagnostics are reported through | |
.BR syslog (3) | |
and redirected to stderr. | |
Example: | |
rsh host /some/where/try-from | |
.SH SEE ALSO | |
.BR hosts_access (5), | |
.BR hosts_options (5), | |
.BR tcpd (8) | |
.SH AUTHOR | |
Wietse Venema, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. | |