| .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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