DenyHosts Startup Script

[David Stanford]

Daniel,

Much thanks, you're the man! Actually, I initially installed it from ports
(ver. 2.2) and was having the same problem. I then went onto the DenyHosts
website and read the changelog for 2.3 which stated "daemon-control-dist
should now behave correctly on FreeBSD systems". Of course this still didn't
help my problem. It seems to be a problem with running the daemon-control
script at boot time, although I have no clue what it is specifically.
/etc/crontab worked using:

@reboot root /usr/local/bin/denyhosts.py --daemon
--config=/usr/local/etc/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg

But since I prefer keeping everything consistent, I now run it from my
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/denyhosts.sh which simply reads:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/local/bin/denyhosts.py --daemon
--config=/usr/local/etc/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg

Looking at this now, I can't believe it never occurred to me to just run the
denyhosts.py file directly seeing as how daemon-control invokes it anyway.
But in any event, thanks for the help!

-David

On 4/25/06, Daniel A. <ldrada at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/25/06, David Stanford <dthomas53 at gmail.com> 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
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> Hi David,
> I suggest that you install DenyHosts from the ports collection, and
> then use a cronjob to start it.
> add to /etc/crontab:
> @reboot root /usr/local/bin/denyhosts.py --daemon -c
> /usr/local/etc/denyhosts.cfg
>
> Then your biggest concern is to configure denyhosts to your likings,
> which I guess you have done already ;)
>