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old hosts.cfg tag "login"

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list Roland Soderstrom · Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:25:51 +1100 ·
Hi,

I got this old tag "login" on all my servers.
It has been there forever and upgrading from bb to xymon and a couple of 
xymon versions later I can't find the source.
What is this login and can I remove it?
Can't find any references to why it is there or it's purpose.
Must be some inheritance from bb I guess.

As it is production I don't dare to remove it either.
Anyone that knows what it is?

ie.
192.168.0.1    myhost     # login


Cheers,
- Roland
list Jeremy Laidman · Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:15:06 +1100 ·
Big Brother used to match service names in BBNETSVCS (defined in
bbdef-server.sh), and lookup the port number in /etc/services, and try
to connect with bbnet to the TCP port.  The "login" service is more
commonly called rlogin and operates on TCP port 513.  Nobody uses it
anymore.  If you have an old bbdef-server.sh and if BBNETSVCS includes
"login" then this is likely to be it.

If the servers are still using rlogin, and you can't have it turned
off, and you still need to test for it, you can emulate the same test
by adding an entry to protocols.cfg.