DenyHosts Startup Script

[Beech Rintoul]

On Monday 24 April 2006 19:29, David Stanford wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> So I've recently just installed
> DenyHosts<http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/>on my FreeBSD
> 6.1-RC box and can't, for the life of me, get this daemon to start on boot.
> I installed version 2.4b using the setup.py script. I'e moved
> daemon-control to /usr/local/bin and all configuration files from the
> default
> /usr/share/denyhosts directory to /usr/local/etc/denyhosts (including
> denyhosts.cfg). Here is what I've tried to get this to start at boot:
>
> 1.) Created a simple script file called denyhosts.sh in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /usr/local/bin/daemon-control start
>
>
> 2.) Changed the previous denyhosts.sh script file to this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> case "$1" in
>   start)
>     /usr/local/bin/daemon-control start
>     ;;
>   stop)
>     /usr/local/bin/daemon-control stop
>     ;;
>   *)
>     echo "Usage: $0 {start | stop}"
>     ;;
> esac
>
> exit 0
>
> 3.) Created an /etc/rc.local using the same script from 1.):
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /usr/local/bin/daemon-control start
>
> For all of these attempts, I even chmod'd them all to 777, but still no
> good. I even changed both 1.) and 3.) to "/usr/local/bin/daemon-control
> debug > ~/debug.output" and though the debug.output file was created, there
> was no information in it. So now, 6 hours later (yes, 6 hours) of playing
> with this has me now desperate to find anyone who has this set to start on
> boot. Anyone?
>
> -David

I start mine from cron. Just put @reboot in place of the day and time settings 
and use the full path to the script (daemon-control.sh start). Works for me. 
See man 5 crontab

Beech

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