Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:36:40 +0200 From: "Daniel A." <ldrada@gmail.com> To: "David Stanford" <dthomas53@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DenyHosts Startup Script Message-ID: <5ceb5d550604242336k2faf0cb2kf43937a90c06c9a9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f2c91f770604242029i5707c06ckfe42251117950cad@mail.gmail.com> References: <f2c91f770604242029i5707c06ckfe42251117950cad@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4/25/06, David Stanford <dthomas53@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 boo= t. > I installed version 2.4b using the setup.py script. I'e moved daemon-cont= rol > 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, the= re > 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 o= n > boot. Anyone? > > -David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > 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 ;)
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