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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.
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18 Example:
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20 rsh host /some/where/try-from
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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.
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