Bug 509919 - /etc/hosts.deny file contains spurious comment about portmap
Summary: /etc/hosts.deny file contains spurious comment about portmap
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: setup
Version: 5.3
Hardware: All
OS: All
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-07-06 20:54 UTC by John Horne
Modified: 2012-02-21 05:38 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-02-21 05:38:56 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2012:0198 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE setup bug fix and enhancement update 2012-02-20 14:54:05 UTC

Description John Horne 2009-07-06 20:54:03 UTC
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 12:59:43 UTC
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 05:38:56 UTC
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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