Upgrading sshguard

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

Hi,

On Jun 15, 2011, at 18:49, andrew clarke wrote:
> A recent FreeBSD ports change upgrades sshguard to 1.5.  I'm not sure
> about other variants, but with sshguard-ipfw at least, from what I can
> tell, installing the port erroneously comments-out the following
> existing line from /etc/syslog.conf:
> 
> auth.info;authpriv.info                         | exec /usr/local/sbin/sshguard
> 
> To get sshguard-ipfw to work again you need to uncomment the above
> line and restart syslogd, eg. "sudo service syslogd restart".

Yes, this happens with sshguard-pf and plain old sshguard as well.

> Incidentally version 1.5 is somewhat more "noisy" than the previous
> version, sending this to /var/log/messages once every few hours:
> 
> Jun 16 01:00:00 blizzard sshguard[7655]: Got exit signal, flushing blocked addresses and exiting...
> Jun 16 01:00:00 blizzard sshguard[8080]: Started successfully [(a,p,s)=(40, 420, 1200)], now ready to scan.
> 
> (obviously a separate issue to the syslog.conf problem above)

That's not new.

As I noted on the in a reply to the commit mail, sshguard 1.5 also breaks the -b flag.

Regards,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix at FreeBSD.org>





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