| Patrick Williams | c124f4f | 2015-09-15 14:41:29 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .TH TRY-FROM 8 "21th June 1997" Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | try-from \- test program for the tcp_wrapper |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 | .B try-from |
| 6 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 7 | The |
| 8 | .B try-from |
| 9 | command can be called via a remote shell command to find out |
| 10 | if the hostname and address are properly recognized |
| 11 | by the |
| 12 | .B tcp_wrapper |
| 13 | library, if username lookup works, and (SysV only) if the TLI |
| 14 | on top of IP heuristics work. Diagnostics are reported through |
| 15 | .BR syslog (3) |
| 16 | and redirected to stderr. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Example: |
| 19 | |
| 20 | rsh host /some/where/try-from |
| 21 | |
| 22 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 23 | .BR hosts_access (5), |
| 24 | .BR hosts_options (5), |
| 25 | .BR tcpd (8) |
| 26 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 27 | Wietse Venema, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. |
| 28 | |