Hello Rene! Thanks for pointing out that wonderful piece of software. I installed DenyHosts
But again I got stuck. :( Now sshd do use hosts.deny well. But .... How can I start denyhosts without logging on to the machine ( logon to windows ) and open a Cygwin bash and start denyhosts by hand? I tried the following: cygrunsrv -I Denyhosts -d "CygWin Denyhosts" -p /usr/share/denyhosts/denyhosts_start.sh The content of denyhosts_start.sh is the following: /usr/share/denyhosts/daemon-control start The Service installed - but when I try to start the service I got this one: "A service process other than the one launched by the Service Control Manager connected when starting the CygWin Denyhosts service. The Service Control Manager launched process 5724 and process 3240 connected instead." I noticed also that when I start Denyhosts b< hand with "daemon-control start" and then do a "daemon-control status" I got the message "Denyhosts is not running" But if I do a "ps -ef" I see python is running and Denyhosts is running as well as I can proof in the log file - also proof there is a denyhosts.pid in /var/run/ Can you please advise me? Best regards Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/