Hi! I have noticed a strange problem with DenyHosts on both servers which I run. After two or three weeks of running Denyhosts (as a daemon) it will stop responding. The process is still there when I do a "ps", but the synchronization stops working and the logs are not analyzed anymore, so new bruteforce attempts are not immediately blocked. Also killing the process doesn't work, I have to issue a "kill -5". In regular operation a "kill" works fine quits the process.
I also noticed that that issuing a "/etc/init.d/denyhosts stop" always gives me the message "DenyHosts is not running", even though it is running and when I try to restart it tells me the that the pid files exists "DenyHosts could not obtain lock (pid: 21999) [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/run/denyhosts.pid'" - as expected. Any ideas? System is Debian Linux 4.0 Thanks, Jan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Denyhosts-user mailing list Denyhosts-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user
