New package: denyhosts

Jean-Luc Fontaine jfontain at free.fr
Fri May 13 20:24:03 UTC 2005


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Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> Denyhosts is a little bit of Python called out of cron that looks
> through /var/log/secure, picks out hosts doing those annoying mass
> SSH login attempts and stuffs them in /etc/hosts.deny. It lives at
> http://denyhosts.sf.net
>
> I'm relatively new at this, but I needed to make a package for
> denyhosts to deploy on my externally-facing login boxes and figured
> I'd try to do it the right way. There aren't many packages that
> would be simpler. RPM (not signed) and .spec are in
> http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/denyhosts
>
> Various bits were cribbed from the yum package. I tried to please
> rpmlint, but it seems to complain excessively:
>
> W: denyhosts conffile-without-noreplace-flag
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/denyhosts E: denyhosts
> executable-marked-as-config-file /etc/rc.d/init.d/denyhosts

I'd use this in files:
  %_initrddir/denyhosts
Seems to make rpmlint happy with my package.


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Jean-Luc Fontaine  http://jfontain.free.fr/
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