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DenyHosts stop problem

Apparently my Denyhosts stopped automatically adding intrusion attempts though SSH to the hosts.deny file So now I have to add them mannually what a pain. How should I fix this without breaking the denial? I guess a better questions is is DenyHosts still working properly or should I assume that the whole thing is broken?:o

Do you get any error messages when you restart DenyHosts?

Falko,
Thanks so much for your help. DenyHosts wasn't even running. Imagine that. I had rebooted the computer and forgot to start Deny Hosts. Is there any way to set my server to boot it automatically on start up? :D

What I discovered about DenyHosts...

So I was searching for a way to tweak my server so that DenyHosts starts up on boot up of the server and I discovered that I have an older version of Deny Hosts and would like to upgrade to the newest version that came out this month. How should I go about upgrading? Should I install right on top of the old installation? Will it delete my hosts.deny file? I wouldn't like that much. Let me know what you suggest.:confused:

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Originally Posted by Jcorrea920

If you are on Debian, do this:

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update-rc.d denyhosts defaults

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How should I go about upgrading? Should I install right on top of the old installation?

Yes.

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Will it delete my hosts.deny file?

No.

I run Fedora Core 4

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If you are on Debian, do this:

Code:
update-rc.d denyhosts defaults

I have Fedora Core 4 Perfect Setup.
What would be the command for that.
My concern is that my version is a little dated

Code:

[root@ccs02 ]# denyhosts.py --version

DenyHosts version: 2.0

Should I just wget the rpm from the red hat depository or mirrors and rpm -Uvh it would that ruin my style?:cool:

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Originally Posted by Jcorrea920

I have Fedora Core 4 Perfect Setup.
What would be the command for that.

Run

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chkconfig --levels 235 denyhosts on

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Originally Posted by Jcorrea920

Should I just wget the rpm from the red hat depository or mirrors and rpm -Uvh it would that ruin my style?:cool:

I'd compile it again from the sources, as described in the tutorial.

Problems Compiling new version from sources

Falko,
I installed the new version right on top of the older version without any problems, follows directions on the tutorial. Although the tutorial is designed for Debian I am installing it on Fedora Core 4. Now when I run:

Code:

[root@ccs02 denyhosts]# denyhosts.py --version

DenyHosts version: 2.4b

You can tell that the newest version is installed, although now I cannot get it to start:

Code:

[root@ccs02 denyhosts]# /etc/init.d/denyhosts start

starting DenyHosts:    /usr/bin/denyhosts.py --daemon --config=/usr/share/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg

Can't read: /private/var/log/system.log

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/private/var/log/system.log'

Error deleting DenyHosts lock file: /var/lock/subsys/denyhosts

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lock/subsys/denyhosts'

It seems to have problems fininding the log and lock files. I have a feeling that from version 2.0 to 2.4b the directories where these files live have changed causing my errors. Would like to get it running soon. What do you think?:(

Falko,
This is what I did, and I don't recommend anyone from repeating this at all. I overwrote the denyhosts.cfg with the new 2.4b denyhost.cfg-dist file. Not the wisest of decisions. So to remedy the situation I just took the old denyhost.cfg-dist file from the 2.0 version replaced the working denyhosts.cfg file and added a parameter

Code:

DENY_THRESHOLD_RESTRICTED = 1

Aparrently this did the trick. :cool:
Thank you for your advice.
Jorge