DenyHosts

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/14/13 12:33, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Marvin Kosmal <mkosmal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Is anyone running Denyhosts?
>>
>> I have it installed.. It says it is running but, nothing is happening..
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Marvin
>
>
>
> This is from my log file
>
>
> Mar 13 21:05:01 - denyhosts   : INFO     restricted: set([])
> Mar 13 21:05:01 - denyhosts   : INFO     Processing log file
> (/var/log/messages) from offset (0)
> Mar 13 21:05:01 - denyhosts   : INFO     launching DenyHosts daemon
> (version 2.6)...
> Mar 13 21:05:01 - denyhosts   : INFO     DenyHosts daemon is now
> running, pid: 31528
> Mar 13 21:05:01 - denyhosts   : INFO     send daemon process a TERM
> signal to terminate cleanly
> Mar 13 21:05:01 - denyhosts   : INFO       eg.  kill -TERM 31528
> Mar 13 21:05:01 - denyhosts   : INFO     monitoring log: /var/log/messages
> Mar 13 21:05:01 - denyhosts   : INFO     sync_time: 3600
> Mar 13 21:05:01 - denyhosts   : INFO     purging of /etc/hosts.deny is disabled
> Mar 13 21:05:01 - denyhosts   : INFO     denyhosts synchronization disabled
>
> Does this really mean it starts and shuts down immediately.??
>
> Or don't I  understand the log?
>

I just installed it for testing purposes...no real intention to use it.  However, I don't see what you see. 

[egreshko at f18x ~]$ systemctl status denyhosts.service
denyhosts.service - SSH log watcher
          Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/denyhosts.service; enabled)
          Active: active (running) since Wed 2013-03-13 23:57:37 CST; 12h ago
         Process: 7901 ExecStart=/usr/bin/denyhosts.py --daemon --config=/etc/denyhosts.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
         Process: 7899 ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /run/lock/subsys/denyhosts (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        Main PID: 7906 (denyhosts.py)
          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/denyhosts.service
                  └─7906 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/denyhosts.py --daemon --confi...

[root at f18x ~]# ps -eaf | grep deny
root      7906     1  0 Mar13 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/denyhosts.py --daemon --config=/etc/denyhosts.conf

So, it has been running since yesterday.


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