Thanks Phil. As I mentioned, that's the first thing I grep'd for but there were no entries with 'Wed Sep 22 12' in hosts.deny. That's what got me looking in /opt/local/share/denyhosts/data where it turned up in purge-history.
I have periodically edited hosts.deny by hand to add blocked IPs in the same way that denyhosts adds them, e.g., # Terry: Tue Jul 13 12:27:00 2010 | ALL: 75.125.144.26 ALL: 75.125.144.26 Could this have confused things? Thanks, -Terry On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Phil Schwartz wrote: > > Looks like the corresponding entry in /etc/hosts.deny may have been > corrupted. Try searching for "Wed Sep 22 12" in that file and removing it > and the next line. The first line is a commented timestamp that DH uses and > the second line is the actual line that tcpwrappers uses. > > Phil > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Terry Barnum wrote: > >> I hadn't check denyhosts logs in several weeks, but yesterday I noticed >> denyhosts has been having problems trying to purge old entries. They all >> looked like this: >> >> 2011-01-27 12:26:06.996 - denyfileutil: INFO purging entries oder than: >> Thu Jan 6 12:26:06 2011 >> 2011-01-27 12:26:07.047 - root : ERROR invalid literal for info() >> with base 10: 'Wed Sep 22 12' >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File >> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/DenyHosts/deny_hosts.py", >> line 241, >> in sleepandPurge >> purge_time) >> ... more traces and then denyhosts is relaunched >> >> No entries with 'Wed Sep 22 12' in hosts.deny but grep reported that string >> in the binary file /opt/local/share/denyhosts/data/purge-history. I removed >> purge-history to see if denyhosts would be happier and sure enough it >> started working again. >> >> Any ideas what could've caused purge-history to have problems? It's been >> running fine for many months without any problems. >> >> Thanks, >> -Terry >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! >> Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! >> Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires >> February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d >> _______________________________________________ >> Denyhosts-user mailing list >> Denyhosts-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user >> > > -- > > Regards, > > Phil Schwartz > http://www.phil-schwartz.com > > Open Source Projects: > > DenyHosts: http://www.denyhosts.net > Kodos: http://kodos.sourceforge.net > ReleaseForge: http://releaseforge.sourceforge.net > Scratchy: http://scratchy.sourceforge.net > FAQtor: http://faqtor.sourceforge.net > > Become a fan of DenyHosts: > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/DenyHosts/58269629216 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Denyhosts-user mailing list Denyhosts-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user
