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.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.
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6dca1d21 JB	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