OT: New article: Let's block cracker using denyhosts

[Paul Howarth]

Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> On Thursday 30 March 2006 10:56 pm, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>> I have a few comments about the article.  (I package denyhosts for
>> Fedora Extras.)
>>
>> You install it via yum, and at that point it is actually configured.
>> A proper config file is already in /etc/denyhosts.cfg, although you
>> can of course tweak it.  And there's no need to copy anything into
>> /etc/init.d, because it's already set up.
>>
>> So the procedure is just:
>>
>> yum install denyhosts
>> (edit /etc/denyhosts.cfg to your liking)
>> chkconfig denyhosts on
>> service denyhosts start
>>
>> If you prefer to run denyhosts from cron instead of as a daemon, you
>> can edit /etc/sysconfig/denyhosts and follow the instructions there.
>> Other info related to the Fedora package is in
>> /usr/share/doc/denyhosts*/README.fedora
> 
> Thanks Jason for the correction.
> But, strange, I don't have /etc/denyhosts.cfg.
> 
> rpm -qa | grep denyhosts
> denyhosts-2.2-1.2.fc4.rf
> 
> Also the initscript is not installed too.
> That's why I set it up manually then.

That'll be because you've got the rpmforge version of the package rather 
than the Fedora Extras one.

Paul.