As Larry stated in his posting, increasing the size of his INETDSEC file to
132 characters eliminated the need for continuation lines for the allow
directive. This way his IP address list would all fit on a single record.
However, creating a longer record in lieu of continuation lines can get out
of hand in a hurry.

To make continuation lines work from my experimenting:
1) create /SYS/NET/INETDSEC as a bytestream file.
2) use a backslash "\" as the continuation character at the end of the line.

Using a backslash is counter to the MPE/iX documentation which suggests a
forward slash "/", however it does adhere to the HP-UX documentation. see
man 4 inetd.sec (HP-UX 11.0)

Greg Skvorak
Beechglen Development, Inc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: telnet observation


> I've never been able to get continuation to work either, and yes, others
> have had the same problem (it was discussed here some time ago)
>
> If you get it to work, please elaborate!
>
> Jeff