Bug 509919 – /etc/hosts.deny file contains spurious comment about portmap

Bug 509919 - /etc/hosts.deny file contains spurious comment about portmap

Summary:	/etc/hosts.deny file contains spurious comment about portmap

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	setup (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.3
Hardware:	All All

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Reported:	2009-07-06 16:54 EDT by John Horne
Modified:	2012-02-21 00:38 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2012-02-21 00:38:56 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2012:0198	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	setup bug fix and enhancement update	2012-02-20 09:54:05 EST

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Description John Horne 2009-07-06 16:54:03 EDT

Description of problem:
In /etc/hosts.deny is the paragraph:

  # The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that
  # the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow.  In particular
  # you should know that NFS uses portmap!

However, the file is provided blank - there is no 'portmap line'.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
setup-2.5.58-4.el5

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Expected results:
Paragraph should be removed.

Additional info:
This is a followup to the (now closed) bug #157053 comment #2. Although the hosts.deny and hosts.allow files were corrected, the paragraph (as mentioned in comment 2 of #157053) was never removed.

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2009-07-21 08:59:43 EDT

As there is no portmap in Fedora rawhide, I removed that spurious comment from Fedora rawhide - built as setup-2.8.7-1.fc12. I'm not sure how the comment started it's existence, I tried to google it - but with no success... this comment is present in more relevant distros, was present even in the RHL 7.0 in 2000, so I guess it's quite old and obsolete thing. But mostly harmless ;) ...

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-21 00:38:56 EST

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0198.html

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