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Kingoftherings
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 Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject: Can't find out why DenyHosts crashes. |
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Whenever I start denyhosts using /etc/init.d/denyhosts start, and I check the status it says it's crashed.
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gentoobox / # /etc/init.d/denyhosts stop
* Stopping DenyHosts daemon ... [ ok ]
gentoobox / # /etc/init.d/denyhosts start
* Starting DenyHosts daemon ... [ ok ]
gentoobox / # /etc/init.d/denyhosts status
* status: crashed
gentoobox / #
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How can I get some more useful information from it?
I'm using app-admin/denyhosts-2.6-r1
I reinstalled denyhosts, and I'm using the default /etc/denyhosts.conf file. Before it was only slightly modified. |
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Kingmilo
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:51 am Post subject: |
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Why not use the hosts.deny / hosts.allow, its a lot simpler, or is there functionality you require that this does not provide?
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Alcap0ne
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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It's the normal behaviour : the process isn't continously running, it's only invoked hourly or whatever you've set in the config file. Even if the status is "crashed", the program is working fine.
Kingmilo : denyhosts parses ssh log file to detect intrusion attempts and then add the source ip address to hosts.deny |
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Kingoftherings
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Alcap0ne wrote: | It's the normal behaviour : the process isn't continously running, it's only invoked hourly or whatever you've set in the config file. Even if the status is "crashed", the program is working fine.
Kingmilo : denyhosts parses ssh log file to detect intrusion attempts and then add the source ip address to hosts.deny |
Ah thanks. 
And yeah, I would never remember to periodically check my ssh log, so denyhosts does it for me. |
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Kingmilo
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| Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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Super! Please add SOLVED to heading.
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