From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 25 07:40:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7ECF16A400 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:40:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ldrada@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD4C43D45 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:40:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ldrada@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m18so921261nfc for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:40:45 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FB4CqttYz2EqaIoVz45TUF1K0qw+/VYcXB8NSotoUAGo7PMqolYOezqEzIUHOWc7I9bEuDzHSt67L8/iXa7x72pOVF/FSDm+xyMWjTnJgoIgihXp46+KgkMhEOIW3kznw9VCpJ2M3YMtodbXz3lXXBZWftMFt0/jiRSPRQWDyPU= Received: by 10.48.254.13 with SMTP id b13mr1525874nfi; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.2.5 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5ceb5d550604242336k2faf0cb2kf43937a90c06c9a9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:36:40 +0200 From: "Daniel A." To: "David Stanford" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DenyHosts Startup Script X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:40:47 -0000 On 4/25/06, David Stanford wrote: > Hello all, > > So I've recently just installed > DenyHostson 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 ;)